It seems that we, like Phil Connors, leading character in the movie Ground Hog Day, are stuck in a insipid time warp. We awaken every morning to yet another rerun of the political pitch for Extreme Makeover, Health Care Edition. Saturday morning it was the President’s “weekly address,” posted in video form on the White […]
Perhaps the one leftist/big-government idea that has been a more obvious failure than any other is the idea of government decreed price controls. Price controls have been tried many times, all over the world, and are usually the last phase of failed experiments in government central planning and regulation. The most recent experience in America […]
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 so-called bipartisan summit took all day and, after the first hour, anesthetized the TV audience. It didn’t turn out the way President Obama and the Democrats had hoped. The Republican leaders, starting with a very articulate Senator Lamar Alexander were obviously better organized and in better command of the facts than Nancy Pelosi or […]
On Monday President Obama posted his version of ObamaCare on the White House web site. As we noted in our previous article, it isn’t in legislative form, ready for Congress to vote. It’s a marketing brochure, mostly recycled from previous speeches and campaign communications. The so-called “President’s Plan” is merely a list of promised benefits […]
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. […]
The Senate and House Health Care bills are both Unconstitutional. They violate the restrictions on government power in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. So how can Pelosi, Reid and Obama get away with it? They simply disregard the plain language of the Constitution. Back in October House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked by […]
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 […]
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 […]
