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State-Mandated Vaccinations? Believe it.

It almost sounds like something you'd read in a George Orwell novel, but, in fact, mandatory flu vaccinations for health care...

By Matt Margolis | 10-01-2009

Sound familiar?

In the past few weeks, anyone who watches the news on television might be tricked into thinking that it is November. Political...

By John Beski | 08-20-2009

A reader asks: what will ObamaCare cost me?

Last week, I shared my thoughts on why Americans are turning on ObamaCare here on AIP . A reader named Liz commented on my post...

By Despina Karras | 08-16-2009

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SAMUELSON: AN EXERCISE IN EGO GRATIFICATION

WASHINGTON -- What's driving the great health debate of 2009 is not a popular clamor for universal insurance. "Many Americans are balking again at the prospect of health care reform," writes pollster Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center...

Published 09-28-2009 10:20 AM by Robert Samuelson

Filed under: congress, health care, medicare, reform
Arguing With Dictionaries Won't Win Over Obamacare Critics

On Sunday President Obama set a record by visiting five talk shows to push his proposed health care overhaul. After an initial bump in support for his plan following his address to Congress in early September fifty-six percent of voters nationwide now...

Published 09-22-2009 12:01 AM by Jim Hoft

Filed under: health care, obama, ACORN
Beware the Static Analysis

When considering tax policy, analysts can choose from two basic methods to determine how policy will affect revenues and industry. The first, used by many politicians, is static analysis, which assumes that tax policy has no effect on consumer and investor...

Published 09-17-2009 8:53 AM by Edward Morrissey

Filed under: taxes, big government, health care
What’s so bad about health insurance mandates? What’ve you got?

How bad an idea are employer mandates to require the purchase of health insurance for employees? From every angle, employer mandates would be disastrous. Hundreds of thousands of low wage employees would be thrown out of work. Wages would go down. Millions...

Published 09-15-2009 9:00 AM by Rick Moran

Filed under: health care
Who Should Really Be Apologizing for Wednesday's Health Care Speech?

If Representative Joe Wilson was asked to apologize for his remarks during President Obama's speech last Wednesday to Congress, should the president have to apologize for his remarks, too? Joe Wilson rudely interrupted President Obama calling him...

Published 09-15-2009 9:00 AM by Jim Hoft

Filed under: health care, obama administration
President Obama's Kiss Of Death?

Can you believe the huge new entitlement that is the health care legislation sits like a bloated frog on Nancy Pelosi's desk right now? The Democrats believe this bill will turn into a princess if President Obama kisses it enough. Yeah, that will...

Published 09-15-2009 9:00 AM by Melissa Clouthier

Filed under: health care, obama administration
Pushing The Limits On Health Care Reform

Part of the Department of Education’s suggested lesson plan to go along with President Obama’s speech to school children this week was for teachers to ask students, “Why is it important that we listen to the President and other elected...

Published 09-10-2009 6:05 PM by Lorie Byrd

Filed under: health care, obama administration
How to talk to your kids about healthcare

Obama heads back to school via live feed on September 8th to talk to our nation’s children about his health care system. According to President Obama , "I'm going to be making a big speech to young people all across the country about the...

Published 09-04-2009 6:05 AM by Kirsten Wright

Filed under: health care, obama administration
Retail Health Care and Reform

In the midst of all the talk about a top-down overhaul and reworking of the health-care industry, supposedly to fix the failures of the private sector, two new studies show that the private sector could do a better job of reform if government would just...

Published 09-03-2009 12:05 AM by Edward Morrissey

Filed under: health care, obama administration
The Medicare Dilemma

The debate over health care reform has barely touched the 800 pound gorilla in the room; Medicare reform. This is not surprising because few politicians willingly slit their own throat by plunging into the thicket of issues and interests that have grown...

Published 09-02-2009 12:05 AM by Rick Moran

Filed under: health care, obama administration
Beware of the Bogus US Health Care Bashing Studies

August was a brutal month for democrats. The economy continued to decline. The unemployment rate hovered at 9.5 percent. The 2010 budget deficit forecast was revised up by a whopping 19 percent to $1.5 trillion. The stimulus did not snap the economy out...

Published 09-01-2009 12:05 AM by Jim Hoft

Filed under: health care, obama administration
How to Win the Health Care Battle

Let there be no doubt: conservatism is winning the battle of ideas thus far during this summer of health care. Last week, President Barack Obama backed off his insistence that a “public option” be included in any health care bill. After that...

Published 08-31-2009 12:05 PM by T. J. Brown

Filed under: health care, obama administration
KRAUTHAMMER: The Only Exit Strategy for ObamaCare

WASHINGTON -- Obamacare Version 1.0 is dead. The 1,000-page monstrosity that emerged in various editions from Congress was done in by widespread national revulsion not just at its expense and intrusiveness but at the mendacity with which it is being sold...

Published 08-28-2009 12:05 AM by Charles Krauthammer

Filed under: health care, obama administration
Go It Alone

Someone in the Obama administration had better learn how to rein in HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. On the Sunday morning talk show circuit last week, the secretary implied that a public option wasn’t a sticking point for the White House over health...

Published 08-26-2009 11:57 PM by Michael Lewis

Filed under: health care, obama administration
Competition

"Choice, competition, reducing costs -- those are the things that I want to see accomplished in this health reform bill," President Obama told talk-show host Michael Smerconish last week . Choice and competition would be good. They would indeed...

Published 08-26-2009 12:05 PM by John Stossel

Filed under: health care, obama administration