While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system. Instead, we should be trying to achieve reforms by moving in...
Domestic Policy
John S. Baker and Elliott Stonecipher: The 2010 Census Will Violate the Constitution – WSJ.com
Next year’s census will determine the apportionment of House members and Electoral College votes for each state. To accomplish these vital constitutional purposes, the enumeration should count only citizens and persons who are legal, permanent residents. But it won’t. John S. Baker and Elliott Stonecipher: The 2010 Census Will Violate the Constitution – WSJ.com.
10 Facts About US Healthcare – Hoover Institution
Many great facts about private vs public healthcare. Too bad Barry doesn’t read. Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations. The top five U.S. hospitals conduct more clinical trials than all the hospitals in any other developed country. Since the mid- 1970s, the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology...
Pelosi’s Health-Care Payroll Tax Is a Tax on Labor – WSJ.com
A new study by Sageworks, Inc., a financial consulting firm, runs the numbers on the income statements of actual companies. It looks at three types of firms with at least $5 million in sales: a retailer, a construction company and a small manufacturer. The companies each have total payroll of between $750,000 and $1...
Support Slips for Health Plan – WSJ.com
In the new poll, conducted July 24 to July 27, 42% called it a bad idea while 36% said it was a good idea. Among those with insurance, the proportion calling the plan a bad idea rose to 47% from 37%. The declining popularity of health-care overhaul appeared to be fueled by rising anxiety...
Strassel: How Obama Stumbled on Health Care – WSJ.com
The party of the left owns the White House, a filibuster-proof Senate, and a 70-seat House majority. As one House Republican aide quipped: “We could have every GOP congressman and their parents vote against a Democratic bill, and still not stop it.” All Democrats have to do is agree on something. You can’t blame...
House healthcare talks break down in anger
The seven Blue Dogs on the Energy and Commerce Committee stormed out of a Friday meeting with their committee chairman, Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), saying Waxman had been negotiating in bad faith over a number of provisions Blue Dogs demanded be changed in the stalled healthcare bill. “I’ve been lied to,” Blue Dog Coalition Co-Chairman...
Urine Test for Welfare Recipients – There Oughtta Be a Law
Here’s a good common sense email going around… THE JOB – URINE TEST Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work, they pay me.. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to get that paycheck, I am required to...
