Posts Tagged ‘healthcare reform’
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 [...]
Health Care and Radical Monopoly — Kevin Carson
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Kevin Carson In a recent article for Tikkun, Dr. Arnold Relman argued that the versions of health care reform currently proposed by “progressives” all primarily involve financing health care and expanding coverage to the uninsured rather than addressing the way current models of service delivery make it so [...]
Weigh in on the White House Health Care Summit!
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum Urge the President and Senate Democrats at the White House Health Care Summit to Renounce Jamming through Obamacare in the Senate with Only 51 votes! ____________________________________ The White House Health Care Summit is underway and we'd like to draw your attention to Citizen Tube - where you can watch the summit [...]
Beware Excessive and Unreasonable Power — Price Controls for Health Insurance
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Steven Horwitz The health care reform “compromise” put forward by the Obama administration in advance of this week’s bipartisan summit contained little that was new and much that was the same in its relentless push to nationalize and thereby destroy the flawed, but still quite good U.S. health care [...]
Kill Obamacare Now — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba Should the Republicans meet with President Obama to discuss their proposals for the reform of healthcare legislation? No! As with everything else involved with Obama, the meeting on Thursday is pure political theatre. It has nothing whatever to do with compromise or changes in his proposed healthcare reform. The Republicans [...]
A Petition Worth Signing — Alan Caruba
by Alan Caruba Congressman John Fleming of Louisiana, a physician, has proposed an amendment that would require congressmen and senators to take the same healthcare plane they would force on the rest of us. They are currently exempt! You know they don't want to give up their present choice of ten different plans. On Tuesday, the Senate health [...]
Medical Markets Can't Work? — Theodore Levy
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Theodore Levy Dr. Darshak Sanghavi, an academic pediatric cardiologist who (like all physicians) financially benefits from the cartelization of medicine, explains in Slate, the online magazine, that health care markets can’t work because of the information asymmetry between physician and patient (“Talk to [...]
Health-care Plan Redoubles Marriage Penalty
Liberty Alerts, WorldNetDaily, Bob Unruh Bills pending in Congress that would nationalize health care by setting up mandatory insurance purchases and fines for not complying could penalize married couples $10,000 annually and are a direct attack on marriage, families and the church because of their discriminatory provisions, according to a [...]
Nancy Pelosi's Two Track Strategy
Liberty Alerts, Politico.com With the broader health care bill still perilously close to collapse, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to take a shot at the health insurance industry next week by scheduling a vote on a smaller bill to revoke its half-century-old exemption from antitrust laws. The vote is part of her new two-track strategy to tackle [...]
Coercive Care — William Anderson
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, William L. Anderson The recent loss of what supposedly was a “secure” U.S. Senate seat by Democrats in Massachusetts has triggered a firestorm of speculation about the future of the Democrats’ “health care” bill. For the current legislative season, so-called ObamaCare looks to be dead or at least [...]
