Speaker Boehner lead the House of Representatives on Wednesday to overwhelmingly pass a bill repealing the long-term care entitlement in ObamaCare -- the one that Democratic leaders have described as "completely unsustainable" and "a Ponzi scheme of the first order" and which the Obama administration could see "no viable path forward" to implement. The vote to repeal the CLASS Act was 267-159, … [Read more...] about Strike One against CLASS
Scott Gottlieb in The Wall Street Journal: Digital doctoring
Scott Gottlieb reviews Eric Topol's book on how medical innovation will coalesce to change clinical practice and what the coming changes mean for today's policy debates. Read more at AEI... … [Read more...] about Scott Gottlieb in The Wall Street Journal: Digital doctoring
ObamaCare’s latest assault on freedom
The Catholic Church has unleashed a firestorm of opposition to the Obama Administration’s announcement last month that it will require religious-affiliated organizations to provide coverage by next year for contraception — including controversial drugs that can abort an early pregnancy. This is an outrage that started with a decision by the Obama Administration last summer listing the … [Read more...] about ObamaCare’s latest assault on freedom
Be prepared for today’s House vote on CLASS
The CLASS Act was doomed before it began when Sen. Kent Conrad, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, called the new government entitlement program for long-term care payments “a Ponzi scheme of the first order, the kind of thing Bernie Madoff would be proud of.” We offer below several of our contributions from this week to educate the debate as the House prepares to vote today … [Read more...] about Be prepared for today’s House vote on CLASS
Defend Freedom — Repeal CLASS
Democratic senator Tom Harkin of Iowa may have inadvertently revealed why President Obama has pledged to veto efforts by Congress to repeal a part of Obamacare that already has failed — the long-term-care entitlement program known as the CLASS Act. “The problem with CLASS is that it’s voluntary,” Senator Harkin said on Tuesday. In the liberal mind, the program would be fine if we were forced … [Read more...] about Defend Freedom — Repeal CLASS
Repeal Of ObamaCare’s CLASS Act Is Essential
The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote this week on a bill that would repeal the CLASS Act – the part of ObamaCare that creates a new government entitlement program for long-term care payments. The program was doomed before it began. Sen. Kent Conrad, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, called the CLASS Act “a Ponzi scheme of the first order, the kind of thing … [Read more...] about Repeal Of ObamaCare’s CLASS Act Is Essential
Scoring Last Week’s RomneyCare Debate
Rick Santorum went for the jugular in Thursday night's Republican presidential debate, exposing Mitt Romney's weak and contradictory defense of his Massachusetts health-reform law. Mr. Santorum attacked Mr. Romney's claim that the individual mandate affects only "the 8% of people who didn't have insurance." Mr. Romney insisted that "92% of the people in my state had insurance before our plan … [Read more...] about Scoring Last Week’s RomneyCare Debate
Big Brother Is Watching Your Doctor
One of the biggest fears the American people have about the new health overhaul law is that government will control decisions involving their health care, usurping the doctor-patient relationship. They have reason to be afraid. A report is in which details the blast of $1.1 billion in early spending on “comparative effectiveness research” (CER) by the Obama administration, and it shows the … [Read more...] about Big Brother Is Watching Your Doctor