Opinion Forum

Health Care and Abortion

March 7th, 2010

By Tom Carter Taxpayer funding for abortions is a touchy issue in the House in regard to health care legislation. The only way the House barely managed to pass their version of the legislation in the first place was by the Democrats permitting Representative Bart Stupak (D-MI) to add an amendment that strictly prohibits direct or [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: abortion, health care reform, House, Pelosi, Senate, Stupak
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Smiles and Frowns

December 7th, 2009

By Larry Ennis There is so much going on that it’s hard to comment on everything. The climate and global warming fiasco is playing out to be much more fiction than fact in my opinion. The recent discovery that many in the scientific community were less than truthful on the climate change situation only reinforces my [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: abortion, Gene Simmons, health care reform, Susan Boyle, Tiger Woods
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Health Care and Government

December 7th, 2009

By Tom Carter Robert J. Samuelson takes an interesting look at health care spending. Does government control health care, or does health care control government? President Obama’s critics sometimes say that he is engineering a government takeover of health care or even introducing “socialized medicine” into America. These allegations are wildly overblown. Government already dominates [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: costs, deficits, health care reform
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Health Care Reform Details

November 22nd, 2009

By Tom Carter The Washington Post has published a good interactive graph that compares the costs and features of the House and Senate health care reform bills (click the image). You’ll find a lot of things that bring up questions. At the most comprehensive level, reconciling the differences between these bills in a House-Senate conference [...]

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Tags: health care reform, House, reconciliation, Senate
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Good Old Harry

November 21st, 2009

By Larry Ennis As the time to vote for health care reform in the Senate speedily comes this way, we start to see and hear of different little sweetheart deals being cut by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and others to insure the passage of one of Obama’s favorites. One of the principle holdouts in [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: health care reform, Landrieu, Louisiana, Reid, Senate
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Dying on the Home Front

November 10th, 2009

By Jan Barry An estimated 2,200 U.S. military veterans died last year because they lacked private health insurance or access to VA health care, a study by a Harvard Medical School research team found. In contrast, there were 155 combat deaths among U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2008, the researchers noted. “On this Veterans Day [...]

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Tags: deaths, health care reform, health insurance, VA, veterans
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Health Care and Sausage

November 7th, 2009

By Tom Carter They say you shouldn’t watch sausage being made if you ever want to eat it again. The same applies to the legislative process in Congress, especially where the issues are as complex and controversial as health care. These particular sausage makers disagree on what the ingredients should be, how much of what [...]

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Tags: bill, health care reform, legislation, sausage
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There Is No Free Lunch

November 3rd, 2009

By Tom Carter It wouldn’t be accurate to say that the cost of health care reform keeps creeping up. Seems with every passing day, it’s jumping up. According to an AP report, the House bill is now tagged at $1.2 trillion dollars. Today I read a column by Thomas Sowell, one of the most astute [...]

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Tags: costs, health care reform, Sowell
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Who Are the Uninsured?

June 21st, 2009

From The Stealth Single-Payer Agenda by George F. Will in The Washington Post: Although 70 percent of insured Americans rate their health-care arrangements good or excellent, radical reform of health care is supposedly necessary because there are 45.7 million uninsured. That number is, however, a “snapshot” of a nation in which more than 20 million [...]

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Tags: health care reform
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Health Care Reform This Year?

June 20th, 2009

In How Obama could lose health fight at Politico.com, Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei state: President Obama’s campaign for health care reform by this fall, once considered highly likely to succeed, suddenly appears in real jeopardy. Top White House advisers, especially chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, are still privately predicting massive changes to the health care system [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Congress, Democrats, health care reform, Obama
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Health Care Reform

June 19th, 2009

Health care reform is the most far-reaching, expensive, and ambitious item on President Obama’s visionary domestic agenda. In terms of cost, everything else pales in comparison. Not only would it cost far more than we can afford, it would significantly change American society in ways that aren’t wholly predictable. Most Americans accept that something needs to [...]

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Tags: health care reform, Obama
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