A Disappointing Return to Political Games with Severe Consequences for Those Who have Lost Their Jobs
On Thursday, Democrats and Republicans came together in the House to pass an emergency bill that will temporarily extend benefits for American workers and small businesses. It showed that in times of great need, our elected officials can still set aside their differences to do right by the American people.
But just when we thought we were [...]
Putting It All in Perspective
With Congress now needing only to combine ideas from the House and Senate versions of health insurance reform into one final bill to send the President, there is an unavoidable temptation among the media to focus on the five percent of differences between the two versions, instead of the remarkable 95 percent the bills have [...]
More on Health Care Spending
This week’s editorial is about the fantastic notion that spending more money to subsidize health insurance for millions of Americans will somehow save the government money in the long run. We neglected to mention this fascinating analysis of the House health bill by Richard Foster, the chief actuary of HHS’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid [...]
Reid’s 2,074-Page Health Care Bill Raises Taxes, Cuts Medicare, and Pays for Abortions
Harry Reid unveiled his $849 billion health-care bill tonight. It weighs in at 2,074 pages. Keith Hennessey runs through the tax hikes in the bill:
The following is from the Joint Tax Committee estimate of the revenue effects of the Reid bill. I have listed provisions with major revenue effects (+$20 B / 10 years) [...]
The Republican Alternative
Democrats have been telling us all year that the
Republicans have no health reform alternative. They are just the
party of no! So we must have all been hallucinating when, lo and
behold, just before the recent House vote on the Pelosi/Obama
government health care takeover bill, there was [...]
Squirmer of the House Nancy Pelosi Doesn’t Have the Votes… Yet
I picture Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Haight-Ashbury, 100%) writhing and twisting in frustration; with all those Democrats, surely she can scrape together 218 to vote for SqueakerCare!
Surely not, at least not yet:
House Democrats acknowledged they don’t yet have the votes to pass a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system, and signaled [...]
