Tag: Health Care
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Announcing A.T.I.N.’s Much-Coveted Endorsement: Romney for President
Ever since I realized that Michele Bachmann had no chance, I’ve told people that I’ll be voting for "whichever flawed candidate the Republicans nominate." Today I’m endorsing the flawed candidacy of Mitt Romney.
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Obama’s “I Blame George Bush” Act Is Growing Old
More than 30 months into the era of Obamanomics, the administration is still desperately seeking to blame all of the nation’s woes on George W. Bush. They’re getting less and less traction with that argument — Obama’s approval rating just hit a new low of 40%, according to Gallup’s tracking poll.
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“Catastrophic Success: The Perils of a ‘Do-Everything’ Democratic Congress”
It was mathematically impossible for the Republicans to pick up enough seats in 2010 for a veto-proof majority that would allow them to overturn Obamacare altogether. So now the strategy is to delay and defund the worst components of Obamacare whenever possible, while waiting for the courts and the election cycle to take care of the rest.
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Financial Services “Reform” to Complete Obama’s Tragic Trifecta
ObamaCare is such a train wreck that Americans support repealing it by a 2-1 margin. Don’t even get me started on the wasteful and dishonest Porkulus bill. And now comes yet another 2,000-plus page bill, a financial services "reform" measure that does a lot of things — but fails to address the actual causes of the financial meltdown that began nearly two years ago and has us staggering still.
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Zakaria Lays the Right Oily Blame at the Foot of the Wrong Target
It’s up to Obama to keep the media tail from wagging the presidential dog.
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ObamaCare, How Do We Hate Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
Note to Congress: Avoid passing bizarrely complicated, economy-transforming legislation that you have not read, especially in the face of overwhelming public opposition. Americans now favor repeal by a margin of almost 2-to-1.
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The Coming Collapse of Employer-Based Health Coverage
I celebrated when it became clear the public "option" would not be part of the final health care bill. But even in the legislation that was passed, the incentives for companies to wash their hands and walk away from health care will be overwhelming.
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“America’s Teetering Tower of Unkeepable Promises”
George Will, on the enormity of what just occurred: On Sunday, as will happen every day for two decades, another 10,000 baby boomers became eligible for Social Security and Medicare. And Congress moved closer to piling a huge new middle-class entitlement onto the rickety structure of America’s Ponzi welfare state. Congress has a one-word response […]
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Steyn Nails It: Happy Dependence Day
"The governmentalization of health care will accelerate, private insurers will no longer be free to be "insurers" in any meaningful sense of that term (ie, evaluators of risk), and once that’s clear we’ll be on the fast track to Obama’s desired destination of single payer as a fait accomplis."
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Health Care: A Uniquely Partisan New Entitlement
If Obamacare passes — and as the endgame plays out today, that feels like the way to bet — it will pass without a single Republican vote in either house of Congress. Historic legislation indeed: Regardless of the political fallout, historians say health-care reform will take its place in the same category as the enactment […]