Posts Tagged ‘healthcare reform’
Warning About Things to Come
By Phyllis Schlafly Did you seen the pictures on television of the tens of thousands of demonstrators at the Wisconsin State Capitol who are protesting proposed budget cuts for state employees? If so, you've had an advance peek at the sort of demonstrations that will take place if state legislatures are foolish enough to pass resolutions asking [...]
Bachmann Exposes $105 Billion Secret
By Phyllis Schlafly Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has again demonstrated her extraordinary leadership in the U.S. House. She discovered $105 billion of taxpayers' money that Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi had hidden in ObamaCare. Now Rep. Bachmann wants her colleagues to refuse to pass must-pass bills, such as the Continuing Resolution or [...]
Unwrapping Government Mandates — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, This past week the Wall Street Journal had an article by Ashby Jones which explained why Federal Judge Roger Vinson struck down Obamacare as unconstitutional, citing abuse of the Commerce Clause as well as the Necessary and Proper Clause. Judge Vinson’s remarks unwrapped basic flaws in legislation which overstep the bounds [...]
State of the Union: Missed Opportunity
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice President Obama attempted a mid-course correction in his State of the Union address. While short on specifics, the President clearly is trying to recalibrate his agenda - trying to strike a more conciliatory tone - an attempt to move to the center. The problem is there's very little [...]
Choose Freedom–Stop ObamaCare Campaign Update
Liberty Alerts, JBSFreedom Campaign As part of the Choose Freedom--Stop ObamaCare campaign, we have recruited four doctors to share their perspective on how ObamaCare would make our nation's healthcare worse. They are featured in the October 11, 2010 issue of The New American. You can also read their individual interviews now [...]
Healthcare Reform: A Huge Misdiagnosis
Texas Straight Talk with Ron Paul This week marked six months since Congress passed the healthcare reform bill in what has become all-too-typical legislative chicanery. Those in power crafted a mammoth piece of legislation and rammed it through Congress under a dire sense of emergency. Insisting on time enough to read the bill was dismissed [...]
Liberty Counsel Files Response to Federal Government’s Request to Dismiss Healthcare Suit
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Lynchburg, VA – Today Liberty Counsel has filed a brief arguing that the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia should deny the federal government’s motion to dismiss Liberty Counsel’s lawsuit challenging the 2,409-page healthcare bill signed into law on March 23, 2010. Liberty Counsel [...]
Washington’s Idea of Fiscal Restraint
Texas Straight Talk with Ron Paul It has been months now since the new healthcare reform bill was passed into law. As is so typical, this massive piece of legislation was passed with a sense of urgency so acute that leadership declared America could not afford to wait until legislators, their staff and the general public had time to thoroughly [...]
Doctors Are Government Employees, So Why Expect Good Service?
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Theodore Levy Doctors speak frequently among themselves about problems in medicine: decreased collections; inability to spend more time with patients; difficulty getting consults from specialists, especially for Medicare/Medicaid patients; enormous time wasted with patients who aren’t really sick [...]
Selective Enforcement — Henry Lamb
By Henry Lamb Federal law currently prohibits the use of marijuana. California spit in the face of the feds and enacted a law that makes “medical” marijuana available to anyone who wants it. Now, a ballot initiative in the November election will remove the “medical” requirement and allow any adult to grow and use marijuana at will. The [...]
Obama Arrives: Health Premiums Jump 20 Percent
Liberty Alerts, NewsMax.com WASHINGTON - U.S. health insurers are raising prices by an average of 20 percent for working age adults who buy their own policies, according to a survey released by a nonprofit healthcare group on Monday. Such premium cost increases affected more than three-quarters of the 14 million U.S. adults who buy their own [...]
America Becomes a Two-Class Society — Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly The tremendous spending programs demanded by Barack Obama and voted into law by an obedient Democratic Congress have divided America into two classes: those who pay for the services provided by government and the freeloaders. Half of Americans, 47%, pay no federal income tax at all. That isn't the worst of it. Most of [...]
Put Patients and Doctors Back in Control of Healthcare — Ron Paul
Texas Straight Talk with Ron Paul Most everyone agrees that health care in the United States has major problems, the biggest problems relating to skyrocketing costs. No one doubts the system is in need of reform. However, too many in Washington see tighter government controls as the solution. In fact, the problems are rooted in past government [...]
Choose Freedom — Stop ObamaCare!
Liberty Alerts, The John Birch Society Introducing our newest campaign: Choose Freedom--Stop ObamaCare! This will be no short-term campaign, rather we are in it for the long haul. We recognize that the very fundamentals of our Republic are shaken with this new law. It's not about health care; it's about control that reaches right [...]
The Healthcare Act Money Pit — Alan Caruba
President Obama says the new healthcare act will save money. Check out this list and tell me if you think it will. Remember, all of them will require a vast bureaucracy to manage. NEW Boards and Commissions created under the new health care law 1. Grant program for consumer assistance offices (Section 1002, p. 37) 2. Grant program for [...]
Nullify ObamaCare in Your State
Liberty Alerts, JBS.org Now that the two major bills comprising ObamaCare, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148, March 23, 2010) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-152, March 30, 2010) have been passed into law, the fight to repeal ObamaCare has been embraced by many [...]
Near Bankrupt Massachusetts Received Stimulus Funds to Pay For Romney-Care
Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, The New American, Thomas R. Eddlem (with brief commentary from Steve Farrell) Just one example of what happens when we move in the direction of socialized healthcare. Thomas R. Eddlem, writing in today's New American, notes: The Massachusetts fiscal crisis is extraordinary because the state has been raking in [...]
Philip Dru Obama — Henry Lamb
By Henry Lamb Philip Dru is a fictional character created by Colonel Edward Mandell House. House was a political activist in Texas before becoming campaign manager for Woodrow Wilson. For eight years, House was Wilson’s Czar-in-chief, and worked to fundamentally transform the United States of America into a government that operated like the [...]
Jim Wallis Wants to Violate the 8th and 10th Commandments — Bryan Fischer
by Bryan Fischer Now that the health care "reform" monstrosity has been enacted into law, Democrats are falling all over themselves to admit that it really at bottom is all about the redistribution of wealth. Sen. Max Baucus says it is designed to correct the "maldistribution" of wealth. Socialist Christian Jim Wallis freely admits that health [...]
Salt Regulation by FDA — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Government intrusion is growing at an accelerated rate and why wouldn’t it? There are no brakes on the locomotive which once responded to the people; all the safeties have been removed. The FDA actually believes it has the authority to regulate the consumption of salt and, for the first time, will put “legal limits on the [...]
End the Mandate — Ron Paul
Texas Straight Talk with Ron Paul Last week I introduced a very important piece of legislation that I hope will gain as much or more support as my Audit the Fed bill. HR 4995, the End the Mandate Act will repeal provisions of the newly passed health insurance reform bill that give the government the power to force Americans to purchase [...]
End the Mandate Act — Congressman Ron Paul
Statement of Congressman Ron Paul, United States House of Representatives, Statement on Introduction of End the Mandate Act April 13, 2010 Madam Speaker, today I am introducing the End the Mandate Act. This legislation repeals the sections of the recently-passed health reform bill that force all Americans to purchase federally-approved health [...]
Guests of Vlad the Impaler — Caruba
By Alan Caruba Lately I have been reading and hearing a lot of psychoanalysis of Barack Hussein Obama and it reflects a growing need by pundits and regular folks to figure him out. The reason is obvious. We are all now the guests of Vlad the Impaler, version 2.0. As several million unemployed already know, he doesn’t give a rat’s [...]
Obama’s private army?
By Henry Lamb Who knew that Obamacare provides for a “Regular Corps,” and a “Ready-Reserve Corps,” of officers and individuals who are appointed by the President? Commissioned officers are subject to active duty at the call of the Surgeon General. The new law provides $17.5 million in each of the first four years to recruit and train [...]
Net Neutrality and the FCC — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Going through the box of sharpest pencils you won’t find my name listed; this I admit up front when entering a discussion on who should control the internet along with the nuts and bolts of what constitutes a utility, public speech and the 1st Amendment. The talk shows were abuzz with today’s news out of Washington, FCC [...]
A Socialist By Any Other Name …
By Henry Lamb People who follow the teaching of Buddha are called Buddhists. People who follow the teaching of Christ are called Christians. People who follow the teaching of Karl Marx are called Marxists, except in the United States, where they prefer to be called Democrats. In the United States, people who oppose the teaching of Karl Marx [...]
Bay Staters Show How to Game MussoliniCare By Gaming RomneyCare
by Bryan Fischer We have said from jump street that if health insurance companies are required to issue policies to folk regardless of pre-existing conditions, health insurance companies will soon go broke and everyone will be driven into the government-owned, government-operated system because there will be no place else to go. For private [...]
Obama, Democrat’s, and Healthcare Approval Rating Spiral Downward
Liberty Alerts with Steve Farrell The Obama Administration's propaganda machine is running full blast but the poll numbers continue to spiral downward for President Obama, the Democrats, and their great socialist experiment. According to the latest CBS News Poll (conducted between March 29, 2010 and April 1, 2010) President Obama hit a record low [...]
Democrats’ Desperate Plan To Reclaim High Ground — Chris Adamo
By Christopher G. Adamo Once again the American left is exhibiting its total detachment from reality. In the aftermath of the thoroughly corrupt political circus that was the “healthcare” vote, Democrat leaders and their media minions now seek to contrive a world in which the people of the nation are grateful for medical socialism and [...]
Positive Rights as Means Not Ends — Steven Horwitz
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Steven Horwitz Even though the House passed so-called “health care reform,” the debate over “entitlements” will not be going away. This is especially true if, as I believe, the bill makes things worse not better. In debates over entitlements many on the left frequently invoke the idea that [...]
The Problem Is a Lack of Health Care — The Moral Variety — Selwyn Duke
By Selwyn Duke There was, of course, nothing unpredictable about last Sunday’s health-care vote. It was fairly obvious that the Chicago mobsters would, using the Escobarian silver-or-lead tactic, scare up the votes needed to pass Obama’s baby. It was plain that “pro-life” Democrats such as Bart Stupak would, after the requisite [...]
Reflections On a National Disaster — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba “Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.” -- John Adams (1835-1826) There is no question in my mind that I have lived long enough to see everything the nation once stood for in our own eyes and in the eyes of the world begin to [...]
Healthcare Reform Passes — Ron Paul
Texas Straight Talk with Ron Paul Following months of heated public debate and aggressive closed-door negotiations, Congress finally cast a historic vote on healthcare late Sunday evening. It was truly a sad weekend on the House floor as we witnessed further dismantling of the Constitution, disregard of the will of the people, explosive [...]
The Rebellion Grows: 39 States to Fight Obamacare
The Moral Liberal with Steve Farrell It is a shocking, appalling, perplexing dilemma that we still have in the United States of America -- the greatest, freest, most prosperous country in the world -- a major political party, indeed the ruling party, dedicated to bullying Marx and Lenin's dream of a socialist Utopia upon us (for our own good -- I [...]
Apocalypse Now — Phil Brennan
Perspectives With Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway Many decades ago, in the 30s when I was a student at St. Francis of Assisi school in Brooklyn, our two-fisted eighth grade teacher known not quite affectionately as "Sister Slug" warned us that we would live to see the United States as we knew it overcome by [...]
Wearing Politically Correct Handcuffs — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern There’s an article by Michael Dykes posted on the Yahoo News site pointing attention to the fact that many Republicans have lost their regard for keeping quiet; often times spewing antagonistic words in public meetings. The story came to light as a heckler from the gallery shouted “Baby Killer” during the proceedings prior [...]
Schlafly: Health Care Vote Set to Expose the Myth of the ‘Pro-Life Democrat’
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum WASHINGTON. Phyllis Schlafly, president and founder of the conservative grassroots public policy organization Eagle Forum, made the following remarks after the public announcement that formerly pro-life Democrat Bart Stupak (D-MI) will cast a "yes" vote for the Senate health care bill today in the House: "It is naive [...]
Government Sucks at Most Things — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba On the eve before Daylight Savings Time, I managed to break a wall clock in the process of trying to grasp it to “spring ahead.” It crashed to a counter top and gave up the ghost. I then went online to Staples and 24 hours later I had a new wall clock. We take such efficiency for granted these days. In the midst of the [...]
Stop Pelosi’s ‘Deem and Pass’ Trickery!
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) shameful scheme to "deem" the Senate Obamacare bill into law without a vote violates Article I, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution. _________________________________ As we mentioned in our action alert two days ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is plotting to [...]
Washington Chaos Portends Obama’s Vision For America — Chris Adamo
by Christopher G. Adamo As the nationalized “Healthcare” debacle nears its end game, the people of America are increasingly shocked and disgusted by the raw ugliness of the Obama “governing” philosophy. Those platitudes of “hope and change” are gone, and in their place a thoroughly regretful American populace now witnesses, to its [...]
Gutsy Idaho Governor Says “No!” to Healthcare; Sites 10th Amendment — Mr. Smith Award
Mr. Smith Award to Idaho Governor, Butch Otter -- by Steve Farrell The tenth amendment is alive and well. Today, Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter signed into law a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue Congress if it passes health reforms forcing Idaho citizens to buy insurance. Idaho's gutsy stand against a President and Congress [...]
Obamacare: Dead Man Walking — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba Don’t you think, if the Democrats had the votes for Obamacare, it would be the law of the land right now? I have been telling friends for days that it doesn’t matter if Obamacare is somehow “passed” by the House and sent to the White House for the President’s signature. It is as dead as Marley’s ghost. The law [...]
Your continued activism and prayer are crucial this week in saving America from Obamacare!
Your continued activism and prayer are crucial this week in saving America from Obamacare! Your calls are working! Keep 'em coming! Reports from Capitol Hill continue to indicate that the liberal House leadership still lacks the necessary 216 votes needed to pass Obamacare through the House, which means that your thousands of [...]
Obama’s Ideology Threatens America — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba During what can only be hoped will be the final struggle between the socialist and capitalist approach to health care the debate is focused on the cost of Obamacare, its impact on the nation’s economy, its legislative over-reach, and the fact that it will ration care. If Obama wins, America loses. The “reforms” will [...]
The Shame of America or is that Sham? — T.F. Stern
By T. F. Stern, Our founders must be spinning in their graves watching what’s going on in Washington. The efforts of men like Adams, Jefferson and Hamilton are being slashed to pieces in order to force unpopular legislation through. The safeguards built into the legislative process are being sidestepped in the name of expediency. You [...]
Census Jobs No Different Than Welfare — T.F. Stern
By T. F. Stern Some folks are overjoyed at the prospect of creating nearly 800,000 new jobs for the Census Bureau . I see very little difference between being on welfare or working for the government; they both involve redistribution of wealth from folks who actually produce goods and services in the private sector to folks who just want a [...]
Sign the Declaration of Health Care Independence
Liberty Alerts, Citizens Council on Health Care "In order to retain the Blessings of Liberty as secured to us by our Founding Fathers and as expressed in our Constitution. We the People reject the imposition upon us of a new, Washington-controlled system of government-run health care. We demand Constitutional protection of the right to make our [...]
U.P.S. v. Postal Service — Guess Who Wins? — T.F. Stern
by T.F. Stern I read an AP article by Randolph E. Schmid, Saturday Mail Delivery May be Stamped Out , which pointed out the fact that our government controlled postal service is unable to make a profit; not just a minor loss, almost 7 billion dollars this year alone. “Without drastic action the agency could face a cumulative loss of $238 [...]
Countdown to Health Insurance Nationalization — Sheldon Richman
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Sheldon Richman The “debate” over what to do about the serious problems in the medical system has been pretty lame, with strange economics, chicanery, and demagoguery run rampant. The minority party’s pitiful offerings and compromises are documented in an article I wrote here. The majority’s several [...]
Applying Alinsky — Why Obamacare Makes No Sense — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba After seven and a half hours of the Republicans trying to introduce some rationality into the discussion of Obamacare, the “reform” of Medicare that actually takes trillions out of the present system and adds millions of people into it, the ordinary American can be excused for being confused, frustrated, and angry. That’s [...]
