ROLL CALL Gohmert: Government Dictating Health Choices Is Not a Slippery Slope but a Cliff By Rep. Louie GohmertRep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) is vice chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security. Prior to being elected to Congress, Gohmert was elected to three terms as a district judge in Smith County, Texas, […]
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March 16, 2012, 6:36 p.m. ET Notable & Quotable Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer on the medical profession’s move from the Hippocratic oath toward the “veterinary ethic.” Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer writing March 15 at Reason.com: For centuries, my predecessors and I have been inculcated with what has come to be called the “Hippocratic Ethic.” This
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USA TODAY MITT ROMNEY: WHY I’D REPEAL OBAMACARE March 22, 2012 Friday is the second anniversary of ObamaCare. It is past time to abolish the program, root and branch. The Supreme Court will soon have a crack at this; arguments about the program’s constitutionality open before it next week. But whatever the justices decide in
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES ARMSTRONG: Obamacare grants doctors liberty to withhold care Plan rewards physicians for scrimping on treatment By Dr. Richard A. Armstrong – Tuesday, February 14, 2012 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The law promotes a “new” model, the Accountable Care Organization (ACO), in which an entity that covers a specified number of Medicare patients
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March 9, 2012 Independent Payment Advisory Revolt House Democrats turn on ObamaCare’s rationing committee. Public opposition to the Affordable Care Act has grown in surprising and unpredictable ways since the entitlement passed two years ago, but few would have predicted then that so many Democrats would repudiate so many of President Obama’s core promises. Yet
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Watch out, Obama By Richard McGregor Washington Correspondent Financial Times March 2 2012 Come November, many American men such as these – white, blue-collar and angry – will turn their back on the Democrats and vote Republican Randy Newman, ex-car yard worker: ‘In November, it will be anyone but Obama’ In his union office in
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March 1, 2012 Ryan’s Medicare Revolution With little fanfare, the Wisconsin Republican congressman has persuaded presidential candidates and even some Democrats. By FRED BARNES Over the past year, an entitlement revolution has taken place on Capitol Hill. It has gotten relatively little attention from the media. Yet its implications for the budget deficit and the
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February 23, 2012 A U-Turn Strategy for the GOP By Herbert E. Meyer Herbert E. Meyer served during the Reagan administration as special assistant to the director of Central Intelligence and vice chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council. He is the author of several books including Hard Thinking, How to Analyze Information, and The
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FEBRUARY 23, 2012 It’s endless fun, fiddling with the dials on the real world. By DANIEL HENNINGER If you were a president who for three years presided over an economy with more than 13 million unemployed, a growth rate gasping around 2%, an historic credit downgrade and underwater home mortgages drifting like icebergs toward the
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February 23, 2012 By Michael F. Cannon 2/18/2012 Politico Pro has published a short but remarkable article [$] stemming from an interview with HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius. It offers a couple of illuminating items, and one very glaring one. First, Sebelius undermines the White House’s claim that “28 States and the District of Columbia are on
