Speaking to the American Medical Association last month, President Obama waxed enthusiastic about countries that "spend less" than the U.S. on health care. He's right that many countries do, but what he doesn't want to explain is how they ration care to do it. Take the United Kingdom, which is often praised for spending as little as half as much per capita on health care as the U.S.… Read more

June 26, 2009 The current version of the Democrats’ National Energy Tax Bill (H.R. 2998) eliminated middle class tax relief provisions, denying relief from higher energy bills to millions of middle class taxpayers.  As the bill is written, every family of four earning over $33,000 “loses” – getting no energy stamps but all the energy tax hikes in the Democrats' bill.  How is that… Read more

"But when framed with an explicit counterargument, support (for the public option) dropped sharply, to 37 percent." A majority of Americans see government action as critical to controlling runaway health-care costs, but there is broad public anxiety about the potential impact of reform legislation and conflicting views about the types of fixes being proposed on Capitol Hill,… Read more

The healthcare system is undoubtedly in peril. I hear daily concern from my constituents about the rising costs of healthcare coverage, the ability to keep good coverage and the fear of hurting our country’s rich tradition of medical innovation. Simply put, Congress owes it to the American people to come together and produce meaningful bipartisan healthcare reform. Moving forward,… Read more

Over the past several decades, our nation has built the finest health-care system in the world. From birth to death we value and care for life. Surgeons can perform life-saving heart surgery on a child that is still in utero. Expert trauma doctors can save the life of a mother who was badly hurt in a car crash. And end-of-life specialists can provide compassionate palliative care to… Read more

If you want a good example of the wide gulf between Democrats’ rhetoric on health care and the real world implications of their policy proposals, you need look no further than the issue of prevention and wellness. President Obama and Democrats have made cost control central to their health care push, and a key part of their argument has been that we have to encourage people to live… Read more

Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steven Ballmer said the world’s largest software company would move some employees offshore if Congress enacts President Barack Obama’s plans to impose higher taxes on U.S. companies’ foreign profits. “It makes U.S. jobs more expensive,” Ballmer said in an interview. “We’re better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the U.S. as… Read more

“The latest evidence that government can't run a health care system can be found in our Northwest corner. There, the administrator of the Washington State Health Care Authority will decide this week how to throw 36,000 Washingtonians out of the government's health insurance program…Anyone who believes a government-run system open to all won't have rationing is naive, ignorant or… Read more

“The proposed legislation would have a trivially small effect on global warming while imposing substantial costs on all American households.” The Obama administration and congressional Democrats have proposed a major cap-and-trade system aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Scientists agree that CO2 emissions around the world could lead to rising temperatures with serious… Read more

W&M Chairman Charlie Rangel: "Whether you call it a tax, everyone agrees that it's going to increase the cost to the consumer.  At the end of the day ... if there's nothing there to repay [consumers] for their financial expenditures, it might be difficult to fight Republicans who call this a tax." House Energy and Commerce Democratic leaders today unveiled more details of a… Read more