OBAMA’S BUDGET BLUFF By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN Published on DickMorris.com on February 14, 2011 The Obama Administration and its acolytes on the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction commission are propagating the myth that it is Social Security and Medicare that are driving the deficit over $1.5 trillion. Discretionary spending, they plead, is but a tiny […]
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BOSTON.COM A new system to control costs puts doctors on fixed budgets to treat patients. Will it be good for consumers? By Arlene Weintraub Globe Correspondent / February 6, 2011 The drive to control skyrocketing health care costs is pushing to the forefront a system that puts doctors on fixed budgets to care for patients,
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FEBRUARY 4, 2011 Their budgets will be crushed by the Medicaid expansions that the feds are forcing on them. By GEORGE MELLOAN Behind this week’s ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson overturning ObamaCare on constitutional grounds, there is a deeper economic reality. The states can’t afford it. That’s a primary reason why 26
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FEBRUARY 3, 2011 Alice Rivlin and Paul Ryan have a bipartisan plan. By KARL ROVE ObamaCare has recently been dealt three body blows. Speaker John Boehner pushed a bill to repeal it through the House. GOP leader Mitch McConnell will get to put Senate Democrats on record with a vote on repeal as well. And
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JANUARY 31, 2011, 7:36 P.M. ET Don’t Just Cut Government, Reinvent It Across-the-board reductions will not improve efficiency. By LOUIS V. GERSTNER JR. The hottest topic in Washington, D.C., and many state capitals is cutting the cost and size of government. Understandably so—we are living way beyond our means, and the future of our nation
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By Dr. Paul Hsieh The Washington Times January 5, 2011 When President Obama signed his health care plan into law, he promised it would foster “choice and competition.” Nine months later, Americans can count this as another Big Lie. Obamacare has instead reduced competition in the marketplace for health services. The New York
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JANUARY 19, 2011 Let’s scrap the Departments of Commerce and Housing and Urban Development, end farm subsidies, and end urban mass transit grants, for starters. By DICK ARMEY AND MATT KIBBE The primary economic challenge today is that our government spends too much money it doesn’t have, and it is involved in too many things
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JANUARY 19, 2011 We can’t insure 32 million more people and cut funding to train doctors by $60 billion. By HERBERT PARDES As they celebrate their 65th birthdays at the rate of 10,000 a day, Baby Boomers are now approaching the stage of their lives when they will need more medical care. But they—along with
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By Dr. Douglas A. Perednia The Washington Times December 27, 2010 Here’s a tip for those wanting to overhaul Obamacare: Ask doctors how to make health care more efficient. They can tell you where to find hundreds of billions of dollars in cost savings. But don’t imagine that you’ll get any useful insights from the
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