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Krauthammer: Overreach – Obamacare vs. the Constitution

Give him points for cleverness. President Obama’s birth control “accommodation” was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless. It was nothing but an accounting trick that still forces Catholic (and other religious) institutions to provide medical insurance that guarantees … Continue reading

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Anderson: What Else Is Wrong with Obamacare?

With the Supreme Court’s decision to review the constitutionality of Obamacare’s individual mandate, that feature of Obamacare has been getting a lot of attention. The individual mandate is the requirement that essentially every American buy government-approved health insurance under penalty of law. … Continue reading

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Obama opposes repeal of healthcare program suspended last week (1)

President Obama is against repealing the health law’s long-term-care CLASS Act and might veto Republican efforts to do so, an administration official tells The Hill, despite the government’s announcement Friday that the program was dead in the water. “We do … Continue reading

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Spying on doctors: Prologue to Obamacare

Anyone who has seriously studied Medicaid, the insurance program for low-income Americans, understands that there is a huge difference between possessing health insurance and having access to health care. Until late yesterday afternoon, the Obama administration seemed bent on spending … Continue reading

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Hentoff: Lame Duck Obama Clinging to ObamaCare (1)

The progressive fracturing of President Obama's credibility in the midterm election results was caused primarily by the grim economy and also by the widespread fear of Obamacare – the rationing of our health care through government invasion of the doctor-patient … Continue reading

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Malkin: The Little Victims of Obamacare

For the kiddie human shields who helped the Democrats dig their own ditch, reality bites. It’s time for America’s youth to buckle up and take a rough ride on Reality Highway. For the past two years, President Obama has promised … Continue reading

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Fund: Revolutionary Do-Over (1)

An old Washington story goes that when Martians land near the White House, everyone inside the Beltway flees in terror. Everyone, that is, except for the folks at the favor-factories known as Congress’s Appropriations Committees, who rush to greet the … Continue reading

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Mandate Challenge Could Prevail

Fairfax, Va. — When 21 states and several private groups initiated lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the Obama health care law earlier this year, critics denounced the suits as frivolous political grandstanding. But it is increasingly clear that the plaintiffs … Continue reading

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Boehner: 'No Compromise' on Stopping Obamacare

WASHINGTON – If US President Barack Obama’s Republican foes win next week’s elections, they will spare no effort to beat back his signature health care overhaul, the party’s leader in the House said Wednesday. “This is not a time for … Continue reading

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ObamaCare will clog system

A month ago, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sent a letter to the president of America’s Health Insurance Plans stating that the impact on insurance premiums from “the new consumer protections and increased quality provisions” of the … Continue reading

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Dems find careers threatened by Obamacare votes

Seven months ago Speaker Nancy Pelosi spent a busy week rounding up votes to pass the Senate version of the Democrats’ health care legislation. It wasn’t easy. She had to get Democrats who had voted no in November to switch … Continue reading

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