Today, 17 state and national medical societies, representing 92,000 physicians, including 3 past presidents of the American Medical Association, sent a letter to Senator Reid opposing the Senate Democrats’ plan for government-takeover of health care.  This news follows on the heels of hundreds of thousands of physicians who have also publicly opposed the Senate bill. Specifically, these… Read more

We tend to think the White House's forays into media criticism are the sincerest form of flattery, so we're glad to join the ranks of Politico and Fox News as a target. In a White House blog post Tuesday, Obama economic adviser Jared Bernstein writes that "somebody over at the Wall St. Journal's editorial page has a whole lot of explaining to do" about our criticisms of the $787 billion… Read more

A government panel's decision to toss out long-time guidelines for breast cancer screening is causing an uproar, and well it should. This episode is an all-too-instructive preview of the coming political decisions about cost-control and medical treatment that are at the heart of ObamaCare. As recently as 2002, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force affirmed its recommendation that… Read more

The South Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement should be ratified, and soon, because of the initialing last month of a similar agreement between South Korea and the European Union. The EU-Korean free-trade agreement hasn't yet been formally signed or ratified, but it will be. Americans have their own agreement already in our pockets. It was signed on June 30, 2007. It awaits ratification,… Read more

There is an air of absurdity to what is mistakenly called "health-care reform." Everyone knows that the United States faces massive governmental budget deficits as far as calculators can project, driven heavily by an aging population and uncontrolled health costs. As we recover slowly from a devastating recession, it's widely agreed that, though deficits should not be cut abruptly (lest… Read more

A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending -- one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama's proposed overhaul of the nation's health-care system -- would sharply reduce benefits for some senior citizens and could jeopardize access to care for millions of others, according to a government evaluation released Saturday. The report, requested by House… Read more

Pelosi's Health Care Bill:"It creates a vast new entitlement, financed by European levels of taxation on business and individuals" Speaker Nancy Pelosi defied policy logic and public opinion late Saturday night, ramming through the House a nearly 2,000-page health-care leviathan that counts as the biggest expansion of the federal government since the New Deal. As President Obama likes… Read more

CAMP: "This is not a moderate bill. It's a bill that really does have a government takeover of our health care system, raises taxes significantly, does nothing to control costs in health care...and ultimately will cost us jobs."  ### Read more

ROLL CALL: Rep. Velazquez and the CHC will vote against the bill if “language restricting the rights of illegal immigrants to buy insurance is ADDED to the bill.”  (Emphasis added, but not restrictions on illegal immigrants getting taxpayer subsidies.) THE HILL: “Congressional Hispanics have threatened to vote against the bill because of a last-minute threat from within the Democratic… Read more

  (Click to Play) Americans repeatedly say their top health care reform priority is lowering the cost of health coverage. In an analysis conducted by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), health insurance premiums for many families would be nearly $5,000 more expensive under Democrats’ bill compared to those in the Republicans’ plan.    CBO estimated that the Republican bill… Read more