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President Obama made history this week, signing into law a health-care bill that’s arguably the most comprehensive social legislation our country has ever seen.  The President succeeded where predecessors had tried and failed not only because he’s articulate, intelligent, hardworking ...Read more

The House passed the Senate Health-Care Bill late last night. It did so on strictly and stridently partisan lines.  Some Holdout Democrats joined their pack grateful for the new benefits promised their constituencies, even as they voted, through “sidecar” reconciliation, ...Read more

President Obama’s three objectives for a healthcare reform bill are – or were – that it cover every American with healthcare insurance, that it control costs, and that it be deficit-neutral. The bill that passed the US House of ...Read more

The Baucus healthcare “reform” bill, cobbled together in the US Senate, is partially funded by future “cost savings” from Medicare and Medicaid. “I’d gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today,” says Mr. Baucus as Mr. Wimpy. Medicare ...Read more

Remember the joke about the drunken Irish man who wakes up in a ditch and asks a passer-by how to get to Dublin?  “It’s best not to start from here,” the stranger replies.

The ditch we’d rather not be in as ...Read more