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SCHIP Reform – A Move Toward Socialized Medicine
July 19, 2007
For the first time in history, mandatory entitlement spending now represents 11 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP)...
 
 
Liberals Mislead the Public on SCHIP
November 9, 2007
For the second time in a month the liberals in Congress passed the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) bill and once again, President Bush did the right thing and vetoed it...
 
 
The Summer Health Care Battles: Be Careful What You Wish For
June 5, 2009
In politics, language matters. In fact, President Obama has said himself that “words matter.” For that reason, when the President says “ambitious,” it would be good for the nation to carefully investigate what he has in mind.
 
 
Public Opposition to Health Care Bill is Growing
July 24, 2009
There’s a rush on to pass legislation to socialize the American health care system. Why the rush? Because information is circulating to the American people which reveals the legislation as socialized medicine, and the result is growing opposition to it.
 
 
Liberals’ Promise of Health Care Utopia Doesn’t Fool Americans
July 31, 2009
Beginning with the very unpopular stimulus bill followed by an almost equally unpopular massive energy tax in the form of the cap-and-trade bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, President Obama has seen his approval rating steadily decline ...
 
 
Canadian Health Care System Not the Model for U.S.
August 21, 2009
Essentially, the whole health care “public option” debate is about who controls health care and who makes the decisions about how it is used.
 
 
VA Booklet Heightens Concern About End-of-Life Counseling
August 28, 2009
Currently, there are just over 2,000,000 U.S. World War II veterans still living. Sadly, they die at the rate of more than 5,000 per week which means that ...
 
 
Medical Bankruptcy: An Invented Crisis
September 4, 2009
Very early in the Obama Administration White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmauel was quoted as saying, “Never waste a good crisis.” He should have added “… even if you have to invent a crisis” because that is what it appears Obama and ...
 
 
Speech Does Little to Calm Fears About Health Care Reform
September 11, 2009
In a speech that raised eyebrows for its rancorous partisanship and lack of details, President Obama appears to have ...
 
 
Government-controlled Health Care Reform Is Not the Only Option
October 2, 2009
If one did not know better, and some people don’t, one might think the only ideas on the table for health care reform are formulated by Democrats. But the truth is ...
 
 
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