William Kristol
The crowing by the Obama administration over getting 7 million people to sign up for mandatory health insurance—with some portion actually paying for it—will soon fade. The big picture will remain clear: Obamacare isn’t working. And Americans, who didn’t like Obamacare when the Democrats passed it four years ago, don’t like it now, don’t want it to remain, and doubt it can be fixed. But they also don’t much want to go back to the pre-Obamacare world. According to Real Clear Politics, a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll of registered voters was the 111th consecutive poll to find more opposition to Obamacare than support for it.
Top GOP Senator Roy Blunt Battles Michelle Malkin On ‘Obamacare’
"These big-government Republicans show appalling indifference to the dire market disruptions and culture of dependency that Obamacare schemes have wrought," Malkin wrote. She called out Senate GOP Conference Vice Chair Roy Blunt (R-MO): GOP Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, vice chair of the Senate GOP Conference, told a St. Louis radio station two weeks ago that he supports keeping at least three Obamacare regulatory pillars: federally imposed coverage of "children" up to age 26 on their parents' health insurance policies (the infamous, unfunded "slacker mandate"), federally mandated coverage regardless of pre-existing conditions ("guaranteed issue," which turns the very concept of insurance on its head and leads to an adverse-selection death spiral) and closure of the coverage gap in the massive Bush-backed Medicare drug entitlement (the "donut hole fix" that will obliterate the program's cost-controls). Blunt responded to her on Twitter, which led to sparring tweets between the two.
Thomas Sowell - Conservative Columnist and Political Commentator2010 Column Archive2007 Column Archive
Thomas Sowell was born in North Carolina and grew up in Harlem. As with many others in his neighborhood, Thomas Sowell left home early and did not finish high school. The next few years were difficult ones, but eventually he joined the Marine Corps and became a photographer in the Korean War. After leaving the service, Thomas Sowell entered Harvard University, worked a part-time job as a photographer and studied the science that would become his passion and profession: economics. After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard University (1958), Thomas Sowell went on to receive his master's in economics from Columbia University (1959) and a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago (1968).
Patient OPTION Act: Replace ObamaCare with Patient-Centered Care
It’s clear that the public supports repealing ObamaCare, but here at FreedomWorks, we believe that it needs to repealed and replaced. Representative Paul Broun, M.D. (R-GA) has introduced an exciting new ObamaCare “repeal and replace” bill called the Patient OPTION (Offering Patients True Individualized Options) Act (H.R. 4224).
Rand Paul unveils bold, simple Medicare reform
Here's an idea for reforming Medicare: Let seniors join their Member of Congress’s health plan. Would that save taxpayers' money while improving quality of care? Senator Rand Paul, M.D. (R-KY) thinks it would. So he's drafted the bold yet simple idea as a bill, which he plans to unveil today as bill number S. 2196.
U.K. Professor Claims Doctors Are Initiating the Liverpool Care Pathway too Early and Euthanizing Patients
Professor Patrick Pullicino (Photo: University of Kent) Patrick Pullicino, a professor of clinical neurosciences at the United Kingdom’s University of Kent, has some disturbing news for terminally ill patients within the U.K.’s healthcare system: it is that up to 130,000 patients may have been killed before their time. The Daily Mail reports Pullicino saying the Liverpool Care Pathway, a protocol doctors can use when patients are not expected to recover which he likens to a “death pathway,” was used on 29 percent of the 450,000 people who die in National Health Services hospitals each year. According to the Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute, LCP is “used at the bedside to drive up sustained quality of the dying in the last hours and days of life.” According to a healthcare provider’s guide, LCP has been recommended in several prominent papers and by organizations throughout the 2000s.
Top doctor's chilling claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year
Professor says doctors use 'death pathway' to euthenasia of the elderlyAround 29 per cent of patients that die in hospital are on controversial 'care pathway'Pensioner admitted to hospital given treatment by doctor on weekend shift By Steve Doughty for the Daily Mail Published: 00:08 BST, 20 June 2012 | Updated: 13:07 BST, 26 October 2012
Cloud looms over Obamacare decision
Text smaller Text bigger A huge cloud looms over the coming U.S. Supreme Court decision on Barack Obama’s health-care law, dubbed Obamacare, that could undermine any portions of the law that are upheld, according to a key Washington watchdog organization.
Obama on whether individual mandate is a tax: 'It is absolutely not'
FILE: June 20, 2013: The U.S. Supreme Court building, in Washington, D.C.AP Sep 20, 2009