By Natt Hentoff
Lurching through Congress, the Democrats’ health-care bill is revealed in all its roiling confusion by this reaction from Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., after the proposed controversial “compromise” Senate expansion of Medicare: “Any big agreement is progress. Even if we do not know any of the details.”
Follow the leaders, President Obama and Harry Reid! [...]
The health-care bills in Congress are irredeemable, writes columnist Charles Krauthammer. They should be tossed out. Then do health care the right way — one reform at a time, each simple and simplifying, aimed at reducing complexity, arbitrariness and inefficiency.
By Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON — The United States has the best health care in the world — [...]
By JANET ADAMY and NAFTALI BENDAVID
WASHINGTON — The House narrowly passed its sweeping health bill late Saturday, marking the biggest victory yet for Democrats in their drive to create near-universal health insurance.
The bill passed by a 220-215 margin after fractious debate and garnered the unexpected backing of only one Republican, Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao of [...]
Armed with favorable cost estimates from the Congressional Budget Office and emboldened, perhaps, by the self-destructive behavior of the health insurance lobby, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to propose that her caucus unite behind a reform bill with a strong public insurance option. She will do so at a Wednesday meeting of House Democrats, according [...]
Be warned: Even people with good insurance will risk fines if mandatory insurance becomes the national law…..
By WENDY WILLIAMS
Cape Cod, Mass.
My husband retired from IBM about a decade ago, and as we aren’t old enough for Medicare we still buy our health insurance through the company. But IBM, with its typical courtesy, informed us recently [...]
WASHINGTON – Confronted with big job losses and no sign the U.S. economy is ready to stand on its own, Democrats are working on a growing list of relief efforts, leaving for later how to pay for them, or whether even to bother.
Proposals include extending and perhaps expanding a popular tax credit for first-time home [...]
By GAIL COLLINS
It is the obligation of every American to have a dream. The bigger the better.
One of my personal dreams is that we should have a public health insurance option. To tell you the truth, this was not on my list at the beginning of 2009. But so many really irritating people have been [...]
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
THE elderly were the first group to turn against President Obama’s health-care pro posals, alienated by the plans to cut $500 billion cut from Medicare. The young and the uninsured may be the next to jump ship — out of worry over about the huge premiums they’d have to pay.
Requiring [...]
By George S. McGovern
For many years, a handful of American political leaders — including the late senator Ted Kennedy and now President Obama — have been trying to gain passage of comprehensive health care for all Americans. As far back as President Harry S. Truman, they have urged Congress to act on this national need. [...]
MINNEAPOLIS — President Barack Obama assailed critics of his health care initiative Saturday, seeking to grab the megaphone from his opponents and boost momentum in his drive to get Congress to approve his chief domestic priority.
“I will not accept the status quo as a solution. Not this time. Not now,” the president told more than [...]
