Grace-Marie Turner

The Biden administration is making great strides toward the liberal goal of government controlling American health care.   Passage of the American Rescue Plan included a big leap that could lure millions more people away from employer coverage into Obamacare by lifting the income cap on eligibility. The administration wants to make the two-year expansion in the bill … [Read more...] about Slippery Slope

The global urgency to vaccinate people against Covid-19 is facing two big hurdles, both of which can be attributed to faulty government decisions. First, U.S. officials have halted administration of Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot vaccine pending an investigation about six women who developed a rare blood clot disorder after receiving the vaccine, one of whom has died.  All … [Read more...] about Not even penny wise

Sometimes we need to step away from an immediate problem to see a better solution.  So it is with gun control, as award-winning journalist Carl Cannon wrote yesterday in his weekly “Morning Note” newsletter.  Is the solution putting more restrictions on law-abiding citizens, which President Biden announced yesterday he plans to do through executive … [Read more...] about Escaping Silos

Pollster Frank Luntz convened a virtual focus group recently with “vaccine-hesitant Trump voters” intended to represent 30 million Republicans who say they don’t plan to get a coronavirus shot.  “Without these people, you’re not getting herd immunity,” Luntz told The Washington Post. By the end of the session, all 19 participants at the end said they were more likely to get … [Read more...] about Education, not indoctrination

Eleven years ago next Tuesday, Obamacare was signed into law, beginning a decade of distortions to our health sector that doubled premiums, caused millions of people to lose their policies and doctors, and dramatically reduced choices for Americans purchasing health insurance in the individual market. House Democrats are celebrating with a hearing on Tuesday, offering nearly … [Read more...] about Eleven Long Years

These are discouraging times indeed for those of us who believe in freedom of choice, private competition, and individual liberty in our health sector, and that government’s key role should be providing a strong safety net for the needy.  But liberal health policy is in the ascendancy, with a huge new influx of deficit spending to further expand government’s role in the health sector and … [Read more...] about Other People’s Money

It is hard to imagine a worse piece of legislation than the so-called Covid response bill that has passed the House and now is being debated in the Senate.  Sen. Ron Johnson, R-WI, demanded that the 628-page bill be read in its entirety on the Senate floor yesterday and last night, but few of his colleagues stayed to listen. Here’s a little of what they would have … [Read more...] about A Truly Awful Bill