Category: National Policy Analysis
Medicare Doctor Shortage Endangers Seniors’ Access to Care, by Matt Patterson
2009-2010 has seen a great national debate over the role of government in health care. But few Americans realize just what a expansive role the government already plays in our health care system: In 2008, government spending on health care ...
ObamaCare: Socialism By Any Other Name, by Matt Patterson
On January 29 President Barack Obama addressed a gathering of House Republicans at their annual retreat in Baltimore. This effort at cross-party outreach was somewhat marred when Obama accused the gathered Republicans of maliciously poisoning the public against his health ...
Obama Peddles Fear in Effort to Sell Health Care Plan, by Matt Patterson
"Consequently, when it is advisable that the audience should be frightened, the orator must make them feel that they really are in danger of something, pointing out that it has happened to others… like themselves."1 -- Aristotle "By the time ...
Climate of Confusion: Global Warming “Science” a Blizzard of Contradictions, by Dana Joel Gattuso
It's too bad we can't read climate scientist Kevin Trenberth's emails anymore. If he was worried last October about two days of record-breaking cold in Boulder, what is he thinking now? (He's the one – a lead author of the ...
Is ObamaCare Dead? by Matt Patterson
Is health care reform, President Barack Obama's signature initiative, effectively dead in the wake of Republican Scott Brown's stunning upset in the Massachusetts special election? After all, Brown will now be the 41st Republican vote in the Senate, giving the ...
Advice for President Obama on Jobs: First, Do No Harm, by Deneen Borelli
Ostensibly to spur the creation of new jobs, on January 8, President Obama announced $2.3 billion in tax credits. His announcement came on the very day the administration confirmed it is working behind the scenes to invigorate the stalled cap-and-trade ...
Bad Faith & Broken Promises: Accountability and Transparency Casualties of Health Care Debate, by Matt Patterson
On election night 2006, incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) took note of her party's sweeping electoral victory and proclaimed, "Democrats promise to work together in a bi-partisan way for all Americans!"1 Instead, Congressional Democrats have consistently locked ...
We Should Listen to Massachusetts, by Matt Patterson
Irony after irony piled up on January 19 as Republican Scott Brown pulled off his near unthinkable victory over Democrat Martha Coakley to become the junior senator from Massachusetts.1 For one, the seat Mr. Brown will now occupy has been ...
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 ...
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 ...
