This week, President Obama and the Democrats are producing a five-day Health Care Melodrama. Liberty Works will provide updates as each act and scene unfolds. First installment in this series: Prelude Last year the House and Senate each passed a version of ObamaCare. This morning the Obama version of ObamaCare was posted on the White [...]
Speaking of his dream of government run health care President Obama bellowed to a town hall meeting today: There are things that have to be done. We can not keep putting this off. But back in Washington the Political-media establishment was obviously exhausted from a year of exertions and produced no support for the President. [...]
Whether we like it or not, we are in a political war to determine what ideology will prevail in the future of America. Will it be the ideology of liberty? Or will it be the ideology of authoritarian control by a self-appointed elite? Last night the authoritarian side lost a battle. But the war is [...]
Until Friday night Democratic Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska claimed to be withholding his Yes vote on the Senate Health Care bill until it included language that would prohibit federal funding of abortion. In the end the abortion language turned out to be several pages of tortured, incomprehensible language that does allow public funding of [...]
The health care bills now pending in congress require insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions. In the industry this is called “guaranteed issue.” To a large extent guaranteed issue is already in effect. A 1996 federal law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), requires guaranteed issue for employee groups. Several states [...]
For those unfamiliar with the arcane customs of the Senate, any Senator can ask that the Senate take some action, such as amending a bill by “unanimous consent.” The presiding Chairman asks if there are any objections. If no Senator voices objection, the amendment passes. If one or more Senators object, indicating consent is not [...]
Our previous analysis of the chaotic Senate health care process noted the obvious: It’s simply impossible to believe that Congress has the wisdom to create, in 2,000 pages, the best possible system of health insurance and medical services delivery. Even if one is blinded by faith and believes an elite dozen can huddle in a [...]
Senator and contributing author of the Senate version of ObamaCare, Max Baucus took to the Senate floor Wednesday and asserted, This bill does not increase government. So far, Liberty Works has identified 55 new commissions, demonstrations, councils, programs and bureaucracies in the latest Senate bill: 1. Sec. 1321. State flexibility in operation and enforcement of [...]
How can anyone believe this urgent, chaotic, political process can improve health care in America? Our mission at Liberty Works is to promote liberty and oppose government encroachment on the rights, choices and prerogatives of The People, in their businesses and personal lives. Except for enforcement of laws against fraudulent schemes we oppose all government [...]
On November 18 Senate Majority Leader Reid received preliminary estimates (also called “score”) from the Congressional Budget Office for his 2,000 page package of new Health Care bureaucracies, taxes, subsidies, and mandates. It began with an estimated… …net reduction in federal deficits of $130 billion over the 2010-2019 period. Reid ran to the cameras to [...]
