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 Thomas Sowell's 4 Part Series "The ‘Costs’ of Medical Care"   Ann Coulter's 6 Part Series "Liberal Lies About Healthcare"

Former NY Senator Al D'Amato breaks down the possibility of health-care reform passing.

Economists’ Letter to Obama on Health Care Reform

(NY Times) a group of 23 prominent economists — including two Nobel laureates as well as previous members of both Democratic and Republican presidential administrations — sent a letter to President Obama about the priorities for health care reform. The letter appears...

Turbulence ahead: Senate opens health care debate

(Associated Press) The 60 votes aren't there any more. With the Senate set to begin debate Monday on health care overhaul, the all-hands-on-deck Democratic coalition that allowed the bill to advance is fracturing already. Yet majority Democrats will need 60 votes again to finish....

Kill the Bills. Do Health Reform Right - by Charles Krauthammer

(Real Clear Politics) The United States has the best health care in the world -- but because of its inefficiencies, also the most expensive. The fundamental problem with the 2,074-page Senate health-care bill (as with its 2,014-page House counterpart) is that it wildly compounds the...

Could an Independent Commission Save Medicare?

(Wall Street Journal) Even with the Medicare hospital trust fund projected to go bust in a few years, slowing the rise in Medicare costs is a political minefield for Congress. One idea that’s gained favor to give lawmakers some political cover is an independent , bipartisan...

Should The Government Fund Abortions?

(Forbes) The now out-of-control debate about major health care reform has hit yet another speed bump over whether participants in the subsidized public option may receive coverage for abortions under the sadly misnamed Affordable Health Care for America Act, which squeaked by in the House The Stupak-Pitts Amendment blocks...

Dems seek deal as Sen. debate begins

(POLITICO) After months of buildup, the historic debate on health care reform opens on the Senate floor Monday — but the C-SPAN cameras won’t see the real action.

The next phase in the Democrats’ health care push will be waged in the privacy of the Senate leadership office...

The Legislative Trigger and the Public Health Care Option

(Heritage Foundation) With Democrats joining Republicans in the Senate in saying that a public plan should not be a part of the final health care reform bill, attention has moved to the idea of keeping a public plan in reserve as a last resort if other reforms fail to work as advertised. The idea is that a "trigger" would implement...

Will Federal Health Legislation Cause the Deficit to Soar?

(Cato Institute) Enacting a $1 trillion entitlement program would greatly increase the burden of government spending. In addition, promises of lower deficits are a triumph of hope over experience. Government forecasters have a very poor track record of predicting costs. More realistic assumptions suggest that health legislation...

Bending the Productivity Curve: Why America Leads the World in Medical Innovation

(CATO Institute) The health care issues commonly considered most important today—controlling costs and covering the uninsured—arguably should be regarded as secondary to innovation, inasmuch as a medical treatment must first be invented before its costs can be reduced...

The Baucus Plan’s Phony Deficit Reduction

(American Enterprise Institute) When the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its analysis of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’s health legislation, Baucus and other Democrats were greeted by the headlines they had hoped for.The National Journal...

Yes, Mr. President: A Free Market Can Fix Health Care

(CATO Institute) The great advantage of a free market is that innovation and more prudent decision-making means that fewer patients will fall through the cracks. This paper explains how letting workers control their health care dollars and tearing down regulatory barriers to...

Undercutting State Authority: The Impact of the House and Senate Health Bills

(Heritage.org) State officials will lose a  great deal of their authority over the financing and delivery of health care

under the House and Senate health bills, particularly in the area of Medicaid. In the House bill, "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009" (H.R. 3200)...

Obama Doesn't Have the Only Prescription for Healthcare Reform

(LA Times) President Obama is right when he says that the U.S. healthcare system needs reform. Although this

country provides the finest care in the world, our healthcare system has serious problems. It costs too much Too many people lack health insurance...

Healthcare Consumers Know Something Government Planners Don't

(InsiderOnline.org)...Since then, countless textbook authors, op-ed writers, and policy wonks have seized on Arrow’s observation to argue that a free market will not work in health care Ergo, we need a regulated , institutionalized, bureaucratized market—like what we...

Would a Public Option Hurt Competition? - David Hyman (CATO INSTITUTE)

MS-13 SMUGGLES THOUSANDS OF MUSLIM TERRORISTS INTO U.S.

(TheLastCrusade.org) The situation at the border now poses a grave threat to national security. Agent Mike Scioli of the U.S. Border Patrol confirms that the Tucson sector of the Border Patrol is facing a worsening problem with Mara Salvatrucha, a Salvadoran street gang that now controls the flow of arms, drugs, and illegal aliens into...

MS-13 Gang Member with Arabic tatoos (Police Photograph)

Deadly docs: Obama advisers

want to ration health care

(NY Post) Emanuel(brother of White

House Chief of Staff) says medical

care should be reserved for the non-

disabled, not given to those "who are

irreversibly prevented from being or

becoming participating citizens . .

Health Care Reform: A Better Plan

(by Charles Krauthammer) In 1986, Ronald Reagan and Bill Bradley created a legislative miracle. They fashioned a tax reform that stripped loopholes, political favors, payoffs, patronage and other corruptions out of the tax system. With the resulting savings, they lowered tax rates across the board. Those reductions, combined with the elimination of the enormous inefficiencies and perverse...

UK to Michael Savage: Apologize for Your Views and We Might Lift Ban

(WND.com) The government in the United Kingdom has dispatched a letter to talk radio icon Michael Savage that he must "repudiate" the views the government has attributed to him before he even can be considered for removal from a banned-in-Britain government list. "Any such repudiation must be genuine and comprehensive"...

Derivatives Overhaul Seeks to Reduce Risk

(WSJ.com) The Obama administration

detailed a sweeping plan to more

closely oversee the giant market for

derivatives by forcing many of the

products to trade on regulated

exchanges or electronic venues.

Congressman Ron Paul Discusses Healthcare on CNN

Obama health-care plan destroys cheap health care options, raises taxes

(Examiner.com) In 2008, Obama

promised not to raise taxes on

anyone making less than $250,000 a

year. But he is now breaking that

promise by proposing to tax some

middle-class families to pay for...

Emanuel: Believes in withholding care from elderly for greater good.

David Goldhill - American markets for health care services are grossly distorted.

Senator Tom Coburn talking healthcare on the Senate Floor - claims plan would 'ration' care

Obama on Healthcare - 'I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal healthcare plan'

Nina Owcharenko (Heritage Foundation) Deputy Director, Center for Health Policy Studies

Michael F. Cannon (Cato Institute's director of health policy studies) discusses healthcare costs on CNN

Dr. Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D, Director of Center for Health Policy Studies of The Heritage Foundation