Heritage Foundation: Obamacare Slaughter Rule is without Precedent
According to the Heritage Foundation, contrary to the left’s claim that because Republicans have done it in the past, then they can do the same - the Constitutional question is on the table and there is no direct precedent for the House to pass a reconciliation measure which deems a massive health care bill to [...]
Faith-Based Economics
At The Corner, Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foundation adds some excellent thoughts on the administration’s claim that its “stimulus” bill saved us all from catastrophe:
On the stimulus’s first anniversary, keep in mind one number: 6.3 million.
That is the Obama jobs gap — the difference between the 3.3 million net jobs President Obama said would [...]
The Age of Obama: Anno domini 2
The Heritage Foundation has posted Charles Krauthammer’s lecture The Age of Obama: Anno domini 2.” The lecture addresses Obama’s foreign policy. Here is the abstract:
n the real world, as opposed to what French President Nicolas Sarkozy calls President Barack Obama’s “virtual world,” America faces the reality of Iran’s intransigence and aggressiveness; China’s headlong [...]
Must-read Analysis of the Senate Democrats’ Health Care Bill
It appears that Senator Ben Nelson (D-Neb), the final Democratic holdout on health care, has caved on abortion - having sold out for an extra year of federal Medicaid subsidies for his state, and that Reid’s disastrous (for literally every American) Managers Amendment will move forward toward passage. The highly unpopular vote will be scheduled [...]
Meet the (Real) Future Death Panel Czar
According to Susan Ferrechio, Chief Congressional Correspondent for the Washington Examiner, a serach of the Senate health bill will bring up “secretary” 2,500 times, and under the Senate health bill she will determine what medical treatments are and are not available to you. It is also quite possible the “secretary” will determine if you [...]
What you need to know about Pelosicare’s ‘Health Choices’ Czar
The new position would give one government bureaucrat - the health care commissioner (HCC) - considerable control over how Americans get their health care. As it is described on the Heritage Foundation blog “The Foundry,” the “all-powerful ‘health choices commissioner’ would be entrusted with more power than most superheroes.
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