Three years ago, President Obama cut a secret deal with pharmaceutical company lobbyists to secure the industry’s support for his national health care law. Despite Obama’s promises during his campaign to run a transparent administration, the deal has been shrouded in mystery ever since. But internal emails obtained by House Republicans now provide evidence that [...]
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Is there anything liberals won’t blame on conservatives? On HBO’s Real Time Friday, host Bill Maher actually accused the Right of being responsible for the obesity problem in the countr BILL MAHER: You think conservatives should take some responsibility, because they sort of have made this a political issue that somehow eating lard out of a can [...]
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ObamaCare uses the Social Security language of the Internal Revenue Code to determine who is eligible for “religious conscience” objection to the insurance mandate. Specifically, the law provides exemptions for adherents of “recognized religious sects” that are “conscientiously opposed” to accepting benefits from any insurance, public or private. As a consequence of this provision, Muslims [...]
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Bill Hewlett and David Packard, tinkering in a California garage, began what became Hewlett-Packard. Steve Jobs and a friend built a computer in the California garage that became Apple’s birthplace. Bill Cook had no garage, so he launched Cook Medical in a spare bedroom in an apartment in this university town. Half a century ago, [...]
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Jane asks the President if her 100 year old mother (now 105) would have gotten a pacemaker under his medical plan. Well now that’s a tough one … that costs a lot and maybe we will have to say, just take a pill. Priceless. I wonder if Jane was excited to Obama’s signature Federal healthcare [...]
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In the unlikely event that the Supreme Court allows ObamaCare’s individual mandate to survive, be prepared for an onslaught of new rules and regulations that force products upon us in order to advance the liberal agenda… 1. Broccoli Justice Antonin Scalia advanced the prospect of government-mandated broccoli during the Supreme Court’s ObamaCare oral arguments. “Everybody [...]
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Gov. Jan Brewer continued her anti-abortion efforts late Friday, signing controversial legislation to keep any of the federal family-planning funding Arizona gets from going to Planned Parenthood. A legal challenge is likely. HB 2800 establishes an order for dividing up public funds for family planning. Top priority goes to government-run health-care facilities, followed by hospitals, [...]
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In the competition for the creepiest campaign material of 2012, we may already have a winner. It is “The Life of Julia,” the Obama reelection team’s cartoon chronicle of a fictional woman who is dependent on government at every step of her life. The phrase “cradle-to-grave welfare state” originated with Clement Attlee’s socialist government in [...]
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OSU’s Urban Meyer, Aaron Craft participate on National Day of Prayer At the call of a woman dressed in white, dozens of people knelt and bowed their heads yesterday on the stone tiles that pave the west side of the Statehouse Downtown. “All that can and all that will, let’s kneel before the Lord our [...]
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A new report prepared by Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee suggests that companies would save billions of dollars by ending health insurance coverage for employees under Presidents Barack Obama’s health care reform law. Based on an analysis of health care data received from 71 of the America’s Fortune 100 companies, the report [...]
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel recently offered a stark assessment of the threat to his state’s future that is posed by mounting pension and retiree health-care bills for government workers. Unless Illinois enacts reform quickly, he said, the costs of these programs will force taxes so high that, “You won’t recruit a business, you won’t recruit [...]
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Obamacare is placing doctors squarely in the crosshairs. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has initiated a labyrinth of programs which will make government reimbursement for medical services even more of a nightmare for the targeted group. Under a provision of the 2010 healthcare law Medicare payments will be tied to cost containment and quality of care. The Physician Value-Based [...]
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With many of this administration’s policies or pronouncements, it’s hard to know whether they’re based on ignorance or cynicism. But given President Barack Obama’s background as an instructor in on constitutional law and his heretofore expansive views of the federal judiciary’s jurisdiction, his recent comments on the Supreme Court are most likely the latter. With [...]
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) slammed President Obama on Thursday for his earlier comments about the Supreme Court, accusing the president of an “intolerable” assault on the Judicial Branch. Obama said Monday that a decision overturning his healthcare law would be “unprecedented” and would demonstrate a “lack of judicial restraint.” Republicans seized on the [...]
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A federal appeals court judge is taking exception to a statement from President Barack Obama regarding the Supreme Court’s role in ObamaCare. President Obama said this week that if the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — popularly referred to as “ObamaCare” — is ruled unconstitutional by the high court, it would amount to an [...]
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