By ROBERT PEAR
Published: December 24, 2009
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Thursday to reinvent the nation’s health care system, passing a bill to guarantee access to health insurance for tens of millions of Americans and to rein in health costs as proposed by President Obama.
The 60-to-39 party-line vote, on the 25th straight day of debate on [...]
By Senator Tom Coburn
This vote is indeed historic. This Congress will be remembered for its arrogance, corruption and stupidity. In the year of 2009, a Congress ignored the coming economic storm and impending bankruptcy of our entitlement programs and embarked on an ideological crusade to bring our nation as close to single-payer, government-run health care [...]
By: Byron York
How many times have you heard Barack Obama talk about “the fierce urgency of now”? The president has used the quote, from Martin Luther King Jr., to call for quick action on the war in Iraq, on global warming, on homelessness, on education — you name it.
Now, Obama and his fellow Democrats are [...]
Joel Kotkin
Barack Obama’s seemingly inexplicable winning of the Nobel Peace Prize says less about him than about the current mentality of Europe’s leadership class. Lacking any strong, compelling voices of their own, the Europeans are now trying to hijack our president as their spokesman.
There’s a catch, of course. In their mind, Obama deserves the award [...]
By Jay Cost
So, the CBO score of the Baucus bill has the mainstream media declaring this a victory for the Democrats’ health care efforts. The New York Times leads the way:
Health Care Bill Gets Green Light in Cost Analysis
The Senate Finance Committee legislation to revamp the health care system would provide coverage to 29 million [...]
By U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette
As the debate over health insurance reform intensifies across the country, 47 million people — roughly 800,000 Coloradans — are living without health coverage.
Each day, people are forced to choose between groceries and health care, a no-win situation that jeopardizes many of the freedoms we cherish. The United States is the [...]
One Doctor’s Orders for How To Really Fix Our System
As a cardiologist and the administrator of a large practice that includes general internists and specialists, I spend much of my time trying to figure out how to provide care for a growing number of uninsured or underinsured patients. I also have to battle billion-dollar private [...]
By Michael Gerson
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
At first it seemed plausible that President Obama had a communications problem on health care — to which the solution was always more and more Obama. But exposure did not translate into persuasion.
Then it seemed useful to diagnose a partisan problem, blaming a small minority of congressional obstructionists and town [...]
Mr. Obama has gone back on the campaign trail to try to sell his health care reform to the nation. Mostly hand-picked, sympathetic attendees have been showing up to his town hall meetings. He continues to make the same points regarding health care reform, which need to be addressed specifically. I hope [...]
By Bernie Reeves
We already have national health care in the United States. It is disingenuous and meretricious for the Left and the media to insinuate that we are a cruel and heartless people by incessantly bellowing that 40 million citizens do not have health insurance, implying they are denied care. This big lie is fomenting [...]
