Previously: Prelude Act I Act II During Act II, the Health Care Summit, Representative Joe Barton articulated the principles that have guided Republicans’ response to the Democrats’ massive health insurance and health care regulation bills: I do think, though, that there is a fundamental difference in the vision that you and your friends on the […]
The House Republican Conference has compiled a list of all the new boards, bureaucracies, commissions, and programs created in H.R. 3962, Speaker Pelosi’s government takeover of health care. Are all these necessary to keep the President’s promise that most of us can keep the same insurance we have now? 1. Retiree Reserve Trust Fund (Section […]
Here’s a hot idea from the latest version of ObamaCare legislation. This looks like the political version of a perpetual motion machine. To accomplish the advertised goal of ObamaCare, more medical services available to more people at lower cost, the legislation would impose new federal taxes (called “fees”) on health care insurers and medical providers! […]
A simple change to the tax code would empower millions of Americans who now must accept health plans selected by their employers to shop for better, lower cost coverage in an open market. Yet Congress and the President refuse to consider it. We all experience continuous marketing and advertising for car insurance and life insurance. […]
File this under the President’s most often repeated claim: “If you like your present health insurance you can keep it – nobody can take it away from you.” We reported last week that existing plans will not last more than a year or two because the insurance company won’t be allowed to make any changes […]
President Obama has promised so many times most of us have it memorized, that under ObamaCare If you like your present health insurance you can keep it. This promise is deceptive. No federal bureaucrat will knock on your door and tell you that you must change to a different insurance policy. But that doesn’t mean […]
Today, surrounded by union nurses, President Obama held a pep rally for his health care initiative. As he has done over and over, he demanded immediate, emergency action on thousands of partially written pages of health care legislation before Senators or Congressmen or the public can read them, and long before anyone has time to […]
