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The Obama administration’s decision to require all employers—excluding houses of worship but including religiously affiliated organizations such as hospitals and universities—to provide contraceptive coverage created a national outcry that the president realized he was losing.  So he tweaked his coverage commandment in an effort to stem the public relations nightmare without really changing … [Read more...] about Merrill Matthews in Forbes: Contraceptive Coverage — One More Unconstitutional Mandate

The president took an extra week to develop his budget, but the extra time was apparently not enough to yield Medicare policies that could produce real savings. The 2013 budget released today relies on the same tired proposals that we have seen previously. Provider payment cuts, delicately referred to as “modifications,” account for $267 billion in savings over the next decade. For a program that … [Read more...] about Joe Antos on The Hill: President Obama’s Medicare cuts don’t cut it

Instead of setting a single uniform standard for national health benefits, the Obama Administration has proposed using a state-based benchmark plan approach, which eventually could affect nearly 70 million Americans. The following primer explains how the proposed benchmark approach is supposed to work and the red flags that have been raised since the bulletin’s release. Continue reading at the … [Read more...] about Michael Ramlet and Nicole Fisher: Primer — Essential Health Benefits (EHB)

As people across the country are waking up to the fact that the Obama administration's latest "accommodation" accommodates only the contraceptive lobby, one continues to hear from the usual liberal voices variations on the same theme: "What's all the fuss about?  Catholics (and others) aren't being required to use contraceptives." Continue reading on the American Thinker... … [Read more...] about Randall Smith in the American Thinker: Health Care Overreach: Federalism and Federal Mandates

Even though the contraceptives mandate exempts parish priests and the Church hierarchy, it still violates Catholics' religious liberty in at least four ways. First, the mandate fines Catholic institutions like Notre Dame and the Eternal World Television Network that adhere to the Church's teaching that contraception "is an offense against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in … [Read more...] about Michael Cannon in Huff Post Politics: The Illiberality of ObamaCare

The Galen Institute, Pacific Research Institute, Benjamin Rush Society, and Docs 4 Patient Care today issued the following statements after filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the 11th Circuit’s decision that the individual mandate under ObamaCare is unconstitutional. Grace-Marie Turner, President and Founder of the Galen Institute said: “Our brief exposes the fallacy … [Read more...] about Galen Institute Joins Amicus Brief Against ObamaCare

Many people of faith were devastated over the election of President Obama, and it didn’t take him long to justify the fears of the faithful. Just days after the inauguration, Mr. Obama began an aggressive assault on morality, liberty and women’s health. Foreshadowing the president’s drastic left-wing agenda was the nomination of America’s top abortion governor, Kathleen Sebelius, as secretary of … [Read more...] about Jenn Giroux in The Washington Times: Killer compromise

After Republicans took over the House of Representatives, one of their first acts was to overwhelmingly pass a bill repealing ObamaCare. A poll taken afterward found that 22% of Americans thought the monstrous law had been repealed and 26% weren’t sure!  That means only 52% of Americans understood that the repeal bill must also pass the Senate and be signed by the president. Those are jobs that … [Read more...] about CPAC: Obamacare — Why It’s Unconstitutional And What Conservatives Need to Do