JULY 15, 2011 The real reason the U.S. could lose its AAA rating. So the credit-rating agencies that helped to create the financial crisis that led to a deep recession are now warning that the U.S. could lose the AAA rating it has had since 1917. As painfully ironic as this is, there’s no benefit […]
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July 16, 2011 By Michelle Malkin 7/15/2011 Is there a health insurance horror story disseminated by the White House and its allies that ever turned out to be true? Obamacare advocates have exercised more artistic license than a convention of Photoshoppers. Now, a prominent sob story shilled by President Obama himself about his own mother
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JULY 13, 2011, 7:28 P.M. ET What if the weak recovery is all the recovery we are going to get? By DANIEL HENNINGER Barack Obama, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell have been performing an intricate scorpion dance over spending, taxes and the debt ceiling, premised on the belief that this is the deal that would
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JULY 13, 2011 Mitch McConnell isn’t selling out Republicans. Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell said yesterday he’s concluded that no deal to raise the debt ceiling in return for serious spending restraint is possible with President Obama, and who can blame him? We’ve never thought the debt ceiling was the best leverage for a showdown
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JULY 13, 2011 Government boards and drug price controls threaten to throw sand in the gears of medical progress. By KENNETH C. FRAZIER Mr. Frazier is president and CEO of Merck & Co. Americans generally agree that our economic future depends on nurturing new ideas. “The first step in winning the future,” as President Obama
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JULY 12, 2011 The savings from government funding cuts to graduate medical education aren’t worth the negative effect on patients. By HERBERT PARDES AND EDWARD D. MILLERDr. Pardes is president and CEO of New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Miller is dean and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine Seeking to reduce the federal budget, Democratic and Republican
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JULY 11, 2011 Taxes Upon Taxes Upon . . . Obama wants $1 trillion in taxes on top of what he’s already signed. So the fondest Washington hopes for a grand debt-limit deal have broken down over taxes. House Speaker John Boehner said late Saturday that he couldn’t move ahead with a $4 trillion deal
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JULY 11, 2011 Relying on unelected bureaucrats, such as ObamaCare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board, to ratchet down Medicare price controls won’t control overutilization. By MERRILL MATTHEWS AND MARK LITOW Almost all discussions about Medicare reform ignore one key factor: Medicare utilization is roughly 50% higher than private health-insurance utilization, even after adjusting for age and
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July 10, 2011 By John C. Goodman John C. Goodman is president and founder of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a free-market think tank established in 1983. Goodman’s ideas on health policy can also be found at his own blog, where he provides daily analysis and lively discussion on a wide range of health
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