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The August town hall meetings were outwardly calmer this year, but reports from members of Congress say their constituents are steaming mad and can't wait until November 2 to register their votes against ObamaCare. And members themselves -- even Democrats -- are airing TV ads against the health overhaul law in their election campaigns, as The Wall Street Journal chronicles in its lead editorial … [Read more...] about Running from ObamaCare

The United States is unique in the developed world in that the majority of Americans have private health insurance that they receive through the workplace. This is not the result of a deliberate decision but rather policy that evolved as the unintended consequence of a World War II ruling. Factory owners were competing to lure and keep good workers and wanted to offer health insurance as a … [Read more...] about Providing Coverage For All Through Private Health Insurance

The United States is unique in the developed world in that the majority of Americans have private health insurance that they receive through the workplace. This is not the result of a deliberate decision but rather policy that evolved as the unintended consequence of a World War II ruling. Factory owners were competing to lure and keep good workers and wanted to offer health insurance as a … [Read more...] about Providing Coverage For All Through Private Health Insurance

The wheels are coming off ObamaCare even sooner than most had predicted. The American people are not being fooled by the sugar-coated sales campaign, jobs are being lost, health costs are rising, and the first program to be launched is a dud. A new CNN poll shows that 56 percent of Americans oppose the health overhaul law, with only 40 percent supporting it - virtually unchanged from March … [Read more...] about ObamaCare Has Failed

ObamaCare is taking on water. With the court decision in Virginia on Monday and the election results in Missouri on Tuesday, the states and the American people are fighting back against this hugely unpopular and intrusive health overhaul law. The Court Decision Virginia passed the Health Care Freedom Act early this year to protect its citizens from being forced to purchase health insurance or … [Read more...] about Two Strikes Against ObamaCare

The National Council on Aging got a lot of media attention this week for a survey that was astonishing in its misrepresentation of the facts. The NCOA asked 636 seniors true or false questions about "the top twelve facts" they should know about ObamaCare. Only 17% knew the "right" answers to half of the questions and not a single person got a perfect score. The news release read: "Most Seniors … [Read more...] about More Re-education

We continue to study Massachusetts' health overhaul experiment as a harbinger of ObamaCare. And we continue to see serious problems ahead. President Obama told MSNBC's Chuck Todd in an interview last week that his new health reform law "not only makes sure everybody has access to coverage but is reducing costs." The quote was evocative of then-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's promise in 2006 … [Read more...] about Massachusetts Warning Signs

A key reason that many conservative Democrats were convinced to vote for the health overhaul legislation in March was because the president and other leaders said it would reduce the deficit and put us on a path to long-term entitlement reform. But any number of independent studies have proven that promise to be false, and nowhere is the case made more forcefully and accurately than in a new … [Read more...] about This Will Not Stand