Preserving Patient and Doctor Choice

Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) has introduced critical legislation that aims to stem the coming tide of rationing of America’s health care services. The PATIENT’s Act will ensure doctors and patients have the final say about medical treatment and new ObamaCare created “comparative effectiveness research” will not put a government created barrier to better treatment.

On [...]

Why Doesn’t AARP Put Any of Its Windfall Profits into Its Charitable Activities?

Yesterday, I noted that AARP’s main ‘business’ is renting its name to insurance companies selling policies to senior citizens. It’s a robust business that has grown rapidly over the last few years. In 2002, AARP collected around $240 million renting its name. By 2009, that figure had almost tripled to $657 million a year. (Nice [...]

AARP’s Billion Dollar ObamaCare Windfall

Ever since the passage of ObamaCare, I’ve been perplexed by a lingering question: Why did AARP so aggressively lobby for passage of the law? After all, the plan was built on $500 billion in cuts to Medicare. Even in Washington, half a trillion dollars is still a ton of money. Medicare is sacrosanct among America’s [...]

Why Does Obama Hate Small Business?

I’ve started more than a dozen small businesses. For one, over $20 million was invested by me and investors who believed in me. I’ve paid payrolls, health insurance, payroll taxes, workers comp, and unemployment insurance for hundreds of employees.

Because of that, my employees were able to pay their mortgages, buy groceries, send their kids [...]

April 5th Will Decide Who Governs Wisconsin: The Voters or 4 Judges

Had the federal government passed a law (in the best interest of the people, naturally) mandating that every household in America purchase a handgun and learn how to use it in order to protect themselves and in turn save the government money on police protection, that law would be a constitutional issue for the courts [...]

Republicans Shouldn’t Take Tea Party for Granted

The Tea Party movement is loyal to the Constitution, not the Republican Party!

Remembering the Day America Was Ignored

One year ago today President Barack Obama signed into law government controlled health care. It was a punch in the gut to a majority of Americans who had passionately pleaded that this legislation be thrown in the dumpster. How many times did millions of people travel to Washington D.C., call and email our congressman, or [...]

VIDEO: Small Business Owner Faces Steep Costs as a Result of Obamacare

Indiana resident Scott Womack understands the effects of Obamacare on small-business better than most. As the owner of 12 IHOP restaurants in Indiana and Ohio, Womack employs nearly 1,000 full- and part-time employees and he already offers health insurance to his management staff.
The Heritage Foundation recently interviewed Womack for the latest installment of our “Impact [...]

ObamaCare: The Road to Rationing

It doesn’t take a soothsayer to know that if ObamaCare and the push toward government-run health care continue, America will begin to ration drugs and treatment for the sick and the elderly.
In fact, it may be too late.  Rationing is creeping into the system already.

The Wall Street Journal highlights the latest efforts to “end the [...]

Dismantling the NYT’s Misrepresentations of Governor Palin’s Record

An article in the New York Times today discusses both the call by some in Alaska to dismantle two of Governor Palin’s energy related legislative victories and the claim by others that they are responsible for Governor Palin’s great fiscal record and Alaska’s strong fiscal health.
Current Alaska Governor Sean Parnell is seeking to make changes [...]

The ‘Untouchable’ $23.6 Billion Funding ObamaCare

Untouchable.  That’s the treatment being given to the $23.6 billion being spent right now to implement Obamacare.
This $23.6 billion is part of the $105.5 billion appropriated by the last Congress to fund Obamacare.  The remainder (Think of it as post-dated checks for the other $81.9 billion.) automatically becomes available between now and FY2019.

None of this [...]

The End of Don Berwick

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On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss today’s crashing market, then Ben discusses Don Berwick’s probable exit at CMS, and finally Pejman Yousefzadeh discusses the nuclear disaster in Japan.
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Obama’s Refusal to Provide Records on Healthcare Meetings Should Sound Alarms

The obvious question is why?  Why would the Obama administration who boasted open and transparent discussions of such a sensitive subject as healthcare close the door to the opportunity to present its factual case to the American people?  Messaging anyone?  Nope.

Complying with the records request from the House Energy and Commerce Committee “would constitute a [...]

A Teachable Moment: How Obama Would Solve the NFL Labor Crisis

Some are now suggesting that President Obama get involved in the NFL strike talks. I was his college classmate at Columbia University and have studied his political career for years. My record of predicting where Obama will come down on the side of an issue and what lie he will tell to rationalize his [...]

Want to Bring Down the Debt? Let’s Defund ObamaCare

America’s unsustainable $14 trillion debt will cripple our nation if we do not stop the spending.  The Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats appear to be unable to garner the strength to curb the debt problem.  One need look no further than Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s plea earlier this week to save federal funds for [...]

Washington Post and PolitiFact Confirm $105 Billion ObamaCare Slush Fund

From Heritage’s The Foundry:

Today former Congressman Ernest Istook testified before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee about the $105 billion slush fund in advance appropriations liberals tucked inside Obamacare. The $105 billion bypasses the traditional yearly budgeting process and is spread throughout the 2,700 page legislation. It took the Congressional Research Service (CRS) seven [...]

Barack Obama and Harry Reid Are AWOL in the Fight for Fiscal Responsibility

In the past 10 years, the burden of federal spending has skyrocketed, more than doubling from$1.86 trillion in 2001 to an estimated $3.82 trillion this year.

President Bush deserves a lot of the blame thanks to the no-bureaucrat-left-behind bill that bloated the Department of Education, the corrupt farm bills, the pork-filled transportation bills, the new prescription [...]

Kathleen Sebelius Admits The Obamacare Books Were COOKED

They screamed, they begged, cajoled but everyone called them liars.  Ever since the outline of the Obamacare began to be circulated people pointed out that the $500 billion dollars of Medicare savings were being double counted in the cost estimates.

Yesterday the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee heard testimony from Health and Human Services [...]

Rep. Mike Pence Renews Call to Defund Obamacare, Planned Parenthood

Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) voted for the two-week continuing resolution this week even though his amendment to defund Planned Parenthood was dropped from the bill in a compromise with Senate Democrats. But now he’s put his foot down: It’s time to end taxpayer funding for abortions and defund Obamacare as well.

“The time to put our [...]

Video: WI Dem. Rep. Gordon Hintz Understands Why He Is the Minority Party

Simply priceless to watch WI Democrat Gordon Hintz have this meltdown on the Assembly floor.  Take away his anger and you’d think he was talking about the Obamacare bill that was rammed down our throats this time last year.  But, I guess that was different–government takeover of one-sixth of the US economy, increasing health insurance premiums, and stripping [...]

Obama’s Socialism

President Obama’s cult of personality and feel-good message of “change” allowed him to sail through the 2008 campaign without being thoroughly vetted by the press.  No one took the time to delve into his past and look at his influences, his actions, or his political theory.  And when something did come up, the press allowed [...]

The Constitution and Obamacare

What does the Constitution really say about the most controversial policy decisions of the present day?  What arguments against Obamacare have potential in court, and which are DOA?
Constitutional law experts Richard Epstein and John Yoo joined us  to discuss these very issues.  They examine the constitutionality of Obacamare through the lens of the “encroachment” argument [...]

Judicial Watch Gets Hillarycare Docs…After 5-Year Legal Battle

This battle over Hillarycare documents is an excellent case study on what is faced every single day in the attempt to bring transparency to the inner workings of government. The Obama White House, in particular, has demonstrated a deep disrespect for open records laws.

Patient Groups Speak Out Against FDA Rationing of Breast Cancer Drug

The cancer drug Avastin has become ground zero in the debate of the future of our health care system. Will drugs and treatments be rationed under a government-run system? Will patients have the same access and options as they do under our current plan? Will patients be subject to a “cost-benefit” analysis [...]

Medical Fraud in Madison

What is occurring in Madison, Wisconsin has become a microcosm of what is happening across America: conservative care givers are being blocked by progressive liberal statists. In Wisconsin, the elected Governor and conservative legislature are trying to institute rational, humane treatment to a sick patient, the state of Wisconsin’s failed economy. Unfortunately, progressive [...]

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