Government by regulation. Shhh. By Charles Krauthammer Friday, December 31, 2010; Most people don’t remember Obamacare’s notorious Section 1233, mandating government payments for end-of-life counseling. It aroused so much anxiety as a possible first slippery step on the road to state-mandated late-life rationing that the Senate never included it in the final health-care law. Well, […]
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The American Spectator By Jeffrey Lord on 12.28.10 “If they would rather die they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” — Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Sarah Palin was right. John Boehner — make that Speaker-elect of the House John Boehner — was right. While Americans were busy celebrating
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DECEMBER 24, 2010 Congress’s Monstrous Legal Legacy Put together like Frankenstein, ObamaCare risks coming apart at the seams. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL The historians will long be fighting over the legislative legacy of the 111th Congress. As to its legal legacy, the only real question is whether this just-finished Democratic Congress was the most unserious
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NEW YORK TIMES December 24, 2010 WASHINGTON When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” Democrats dropped it from legislation to overhaul the health care system. But the Obama administration will achieve the same goal by regulation, starting Saturday. Under the new policy, outlined in a Medicare regulation,
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August 15, 2010 The ‘Right to Health Care’ Can Be the Right to No Care By Deane Waldman If you read British newspapers, you know their universal health care system is cutting more and more services. There, everyone’s right to health care is becoming the right to no care. Do we want that in the
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DECEMBER 23, 2010 So the watchdog news outfit called PolitiFact has decided that its “lie of the year” is the phrase “a government takeover of health care.” Ordinarily, lies need verbs and we’d leave the media criticism to others, but the White House has decided that PolitiFact’s writ should be heard across the land and
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NEW YORK TIMES December 16, 2010 Can Congress Force You to Be Healthy? By JASON MAZZONE HENRY E. HUDSON, the federal judge in Virginia who ruled this week that the individual mandate provision of the new health care law is unconstitutional, has become the object of widespread derision. Judge Hudson explained that whatever else Congress
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December 16, 2010 – carolinajournal.com Carolina Journal Exclusive Public Employee Pension Debt Explodes By Karen McMahan RALEIGH — If government officials were forced to apply the same uniform accounting methods that private pension plan administrators must use to calculate liabilities, experts say the funding shortfall would be five times greater than the amount being reported
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) American Narcissus The vanity of Barack Obama Jonathan V. Last November 22, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 10 Why has Barack Obama failed so spectacularly? Is he too dogmatically liberal or too pragmatic? Is he a socialist, or an anticolonialist, or a philosopher-president? Or is it possible that Obama’s failures
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