Category: Health
Quote of Note: The True Cost of ObamaCare
"Far from providing "affordable" care for everyone, ObamaCare would come at a painful price -- higher insurance premiums, more and higher taxes, fewer jobs, lower wages, a reduced standard of living and an erosion of privacy and individual liberty." -Matt ...
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Black Activists Condemn Senate Leader Harry Reid Playing the Race Card in Health Care Debate
Washington, DC - Recent race-related comments made by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) are highly offensive and historically inaccurate, say members of the Project 21 black leadership group. "Harry Reid has resorted to the most shopworn trick in the ...
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Quote of Note: Democrats’ Health Care Sleight of Hand
"As a former (recovering) professional magician, I've seen and perpetrated my share of sleight-of-hand. But I have never seen anything quite like the linguistic and budgetary legerdemain Democrats have performed to make President Obama's health-care plan appear 'affordable.' Congressional Democrats ...
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Free Market Think Tank Grows, Crediting Government’s Assault on Private Enterprise as Impetus for Revenue Growth
Washington, DC - The National Center for Public Policy Research announced additions to its health care and environmental policy divisions today, crediting Washington's growing intrusion into the free market for its revenue growth during America's worst recession in 26 years ...
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A Public Option in Health Care Doesn’t Mean Low Overhead
One of the arguments proponents of the so-called "public option" in health care reform often make is that health insurance company executives make too much money. I wonder how many of these people realize that almost 60 administrators in the ...
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Health Care Bombshell: ObamaCare Would Doom Medicaid
Writing for the Heritage Foundation, Dennis Smith and Ed Haislmaier have today exposed a huge political drawback to the liberal health care bill: ObamaCare -- without intending to -- could, almost certainly would, be the death knell of Medicaid, America's ...
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ConservaCare: An Alternative Health Reform Plan, by Matt Patterson
On November 3, Republicans in the House of Representatives unveiled an alternative health care reform plan,1 which they claim contains "common-sense health care reforms our nation can afford."2 The bill was introduced as a substitute amendment by House Republican Leader ...
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Obama Buys The News, by Matt Patterson
Is ABC News a legitimate news organization? Not, apparently, by the standards of the Obama administration. Speaking of Fox News, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn told The New York Times, "We're going to treat them [Fox] the way we ...
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Britain Investigates Deaths in Government Hospitals
From the Times in Britain, November 28: An immediate investigation to uncover the true extent of death rates across the [British government's National Health Service] has been ordered by the Health Secretary after scandals at two hospital trusts.Amid claims that ...
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Health Care Monsters
"Pelosi and Reid's health care monsters" is the theme of an op-ed in the Baltimore Sun today by National Center Policy Analyst Matt Patterson. Matt examines the scary goblins in the liberal health care proposals; namely, the Medicare cuts, the ...
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