Category Archives: Health Care

Borders, Budgets, and the Rising Risk of Disease

Ali S. Khan CDC July 6, 2011 Borders, Budgets, and the Rising Risk of Disease Is there a perfect storm brewing along our nation’s southern border?  Let’s take a look at the numbers in El Paso, Texas where I recently visited: There are 27 million crossings per year alone at the El Paso Point of [...]

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Sixth Circuit Upholds ObamaCare Mandate

Ed Morrissey Hot Air June 29, 2011 The decision got overlooked in all of the attention to Barack Obama’s press conference, but nonetheless this will make some big news.  The Sixth Circuit has denied an appeal by the Thomas More Law Center and a group of individuals whose challenge to the ObamaCare mandate lost at [...]

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Details of McKinsey Study Expose Obamacare Flimflam

Washington Examiner June 22, 2011 Two weeks ago, the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. released a widely reported survey that said almost a third of private-sector employers reported they will drop their employee health insurance coverage when Obamacare’s government-managed insurance exchanges come online in 2014. The survey results exploded two major claims repeatedly made by [...]

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WOLF: The FDA’s One-Man Death Panel

Dr. Milton R. Wolf The Washington Times June 21, 2011 In 2009, our bureaucratic ruling class suddenly declared that women in their 40s no longer needed mammography screening. This came as a shock to me and to the 20 percent of my breast cancer patients who are women in their 40s. They were livid, as [...]

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Obama Threatens to Cut Off Low Income Healthcare Funds to Indiana if They Defund Planned Parenthood

David Schmidt Live Action June 5, 2011 Last month Indiana voted to defund Planned Parenthood and the Obama administration is not taking kindly that choice. The AP is reporting that the Obama administration may withhold up to $4.3 billion in Medicaid funding for low income healthcare from Indiana if they do not change their mind [...]

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Misinformation on Medicare Reform

JEFFREY H. ANDERSON The Weekly Standard June 7, 2011 A recent National Journal article misrepresents the effects of the proposed Medicare reforms in the House of Representatives on current seniors. House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan has repeatedly noted that these proposed Medicare reforms — which would not go into effect until 2022 — would not [...]

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Texas and 13 Other States File Brief in Support of Overturning Health Care Act, Argue ‘Individual Mandate’ Illegally Forces Americans to Buy Health Insurance

Mark Lisheron Texas Watchdog May 24, 2011 Continuing to battle the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Greg Abbott of Texas and the attorneys general of 13 other states today filed a brief in support of overturning the law now before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. [...]

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Breaking: Supreme Court Rejects Fast-Track Appeal on ObamaCare; Update: Cuccinelli Says “Disappointing, Not Surprising”

Ed Morrissey Hot Air April 25, 2011 The Supreme Court is in no rush to either consider challenges to ObamaCare or consolidate them, at least not at the moment.  Earlier today, the court passed on an opportunity to expedite the appeal process, turning down Virginia’s Ken Cuccinelli, despite his appeal for a fast-track review on [...]

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Judicial Watch Obtains HHS Records Detailing Taxpayer-Funded Obamacare Propaganda Campaign

Judicial Watch April 12, 2011 Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents from the Obama Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) detailing the agency’s massive taxpayer-funded multimedia campaign designed to promote the Affordable Health Care Act (also known as Obamacare) and other [...]

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Planned Parenthood Hypocritical on Ultrasound Bill

Illinois Review April 7, 2011 The abortion industry has gone off its rocker in reaction to the Catholic Conference of Illinois backing a bill that would require pregnant women to be provided ultrasounds before deciding whether or not to have an abortion. As reported by Illinois Statehouse News, Brigid Leahy of the government-funded Planned Parenthood [...]

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New Report Shows Sec. Sebelius is Overstepping Her Authority

Brian Blase Heritage Foundation April 5, 2011 One negative provision of Obamacare is back in congressional crosshairs. The CLASS (Community Living Assistance Services and Support) Program, a new long-term care entitlement, has already endured withering criticism. In July 2009, the American Academy of Actuaries released a blistering report on its structural flaws. Senator Kent Conrad [...]

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Obamacare Cost in One Chart

Joseph Lawler American Spectator March 30, 2011 The Congressional Budget Office produced this clear graph on the budgetary effects of Obamacare. The left-hand scale is billions of dollars. “Net Changes in Other Revenues” means, generally, tax increases. “Net Changes in Other Spending” is mostly cuts to Medicare.  This chart represents the absolute best-case scenario that [...]

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