By Peter J. Wallison
April 15, 2010, 12:26 pm
One thing can be said about the current debate over the administration’s financial regulation plan, or at least Senator Chris Dodd’s version: the debate has sharpened the issues so that Dodd, the Democrats, and the administration can no longer hide behind slogans. If [...]
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 — [...]
Andrew Napolitano
Congress recognizes no limits on its power. It doesn’t care about the Constitution, it doesn’t care about your inalienable rights. If this health care bill becomes law, America, life as you have known it, freedom as you have exercised it, and privacy as you have enjoyed it will cease to be.
Last week the House [...]
by Paul Begala
The ex-Democrat now says he’ll join the GOP in a health-care filibuster. Paul Begala on Lieberman’s latest and most shameless betrayal.
It’s journalistic shorthand to note a politician’s party identification and state after his or her name. For example: Jane Doe (D-NY). And so Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman is identified as (I-CT). But the [...]
Neither Republicans nor Democrats like to admit it, but limits are part of the system — with or without reform.
By Doyle McManus
Late last month, as the Senate Finance Committee labored to produce its version of a healthcare bill, the Republican whip, Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, renewed an old warning. If the federal government intervenes [...]
Why an individual mandate could be struck down by the courts.
By DAVID B. RIVKIN JR. AND LEE A. CASEY
Federal legislation requiring that every American have health insurance is part of all the major health-care reform plans now being considered in Washington. Such a mandate, however, would expand the federal government’s authority over individual Americans to [...]
Steven Hill
Europeans are shaking their heads over their American friends again. Whether talking to people in the street, in the cafés or to journalists or political leaders, everyone here asks me the same question: Has America lost its mind? Town halls filled with angry citizens, shouting at their elected leaders, some of them armed with [...]
Senator Harry Reid has said they will do anything to pass health care. “We will pass health care with any means possible”, even against the will of the American people.”
Parliamentary procedure to split the health care bill into two parts.
Easy Part: Contain the less controversial provisions for new regulations on insurance companies and [...]
G. Wesley Clark, MD
Mr. President, I just read your op-ed in the New York Times. You must either be incredibly ignorant (e.g., pediatricians performing tonsillectomies, surgeons being paid $50,000 for an amputation), or else you believe that Americans are incredibly stupid.
You justify a hasty and massive healthcare “reform” to save money, by spending an [...]
Commentary by Betsy McCaughey
WASHINGTON—AARP Executive Vice President John Rother issued the following statement in response to recent commentary by Betsy McCaughey in various media outlets on health care reform measures passed or currently being considered by Congress.
“Betsy McCaughey’s recent commentary on health care reform in various media outlets is rife with gross—and even cruel—distortions.
“Ms. McCaughey [...]
