According to a Quinnipiac University poll released July 1, Americans by a margin of 2:1 said a government takeover of health care would be a “bad thing.”  The results are not surprising given what has happened when foreign governments took over their countries' health care systems.  A brief scan of news headlines show the danger middle-class Americans face if the Democrats enact their… Read more

Maine, Hawaii, and Massachusetts have attempted to reform their state health insurance regulations with troubling results.  Democrats in Congress are now seeking to expand these ideas nationwide.  The problem is that these “reforms” resulted in lost jobs, higher health care costs, and reduced access to care at the state-level.  Here are the results: Hawaii: In 1973, Hawaii enacted… Read more

According to the association that represents 350,000 small businesses, the House Democrat health care bill:  Hurts small employers by imposing a government-run plan:  “…we are deeply concerned that a public plan would further compromise the viability of private insurance, which would limit rather than expand choice.” Harms workers by imposing employer… Read more

A new study by an independent research firm predicts the government-run insurance plan proposed by House Democrats will force 2 out of 3 Americans to lose their current health coverage.  The June 2009 Lewin Group analysis of the House Democrats’ health “reform” bill found that: 114 million Americans would be forced out of their current private health coverage, including more than 106… Read more

Yesterday, during a Ways and Means Committee hearing, Ranking Republican Member Dave Camp (R-MI) highlighted a non-partisan, independent analysis  of the House Democrats’ health care legislation.  The study found the Democrats’ bill would result in $3.5 trillion in added federal spending over the next decade and force 64 million Americans to lose their current health care coverage.  It… Read more

Today, HSI Network, a non-partisan, independent health care research firm that has worked with research universities, the federal government and the private sector, released the estimated costs and impacts of the House Democrats’ tri-committee health care discussion draft.  The analysis predicts the House Democrats’ bill will result in $3.5 trillion of new federal spending. … Read more

While House Democrats have not revealed the cost of their health care reform “discussion draft,” CBO has already said the Senate HELP Committee Democrats' draft would cost $1 trillion (before adding the massive Medicaid expansion) and the Senate Finance Committee's draft would cost $1.6 trillion.  The House Democrat bill is, on many fronts, more liberal and likely more costly than either… Read more

As House Democrats prepare to release their health care plan today – a plan that no Republican member has seen or been invited to be a part of – Democrat Congressman Jim Cooper dispels the myth of President Obama bringing "change" to Washington, DC, and his promise to make health care reform a bipartisan effort. “In the House of Representatives, meanwhile, we are explicitly told not to… Read more

Despite the rhetoric by Senate Democrats about the need to give taxpayer health subsidies to the “poor,” two current U.S. Governors may qualify for taxpayer-funded health care if the bill being considered by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee is enacted.   The so-called “Affordable Health Choices Act,” as outlined by Senator Chris Dodd, makes Americans earning… Read more

On Monday, in a speech to the American Medical Association, President Obama reaffirmed his prior comments that health care reform shouldn’t displace anyone from their current insurance: “If you like what you're getting, keep it.  Nobody is forcing you to shift.  But if you're not, this gives you some new options.” Yet just a day earlier, on NBC’s Meet the Press, Vice President… Read more