ObamaCare's stealth assault on small business…

Tea Party Patriots Unite Behind Bouchard

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The War on Seniors. If you're on Medicare or if you soon will be, the future doesn't look great. You and 46 million Americans just like you are going to shoulder more than half the cost of health reform through reductions to Medicare spending. And you will bear additional burdens through indirect taxes on everything from drugs to wheelchairs and crutches.

If you are one of the 11.5 million members of Medicare Advantage plans, you may have…

MISSOURI'S PROPOSITION C

On Aug. 3, all eyes in the nation will turn toward Missouri, as voters in the Show-Me State become the first anywhere to cast a ballot concerning the federal health care plan foisted upon them. A "yes" vote on Proposition C -- the Health Care Freedom Act -- will tell the nation that Missourians have looked at this expensive, ill-conceived and unhealthy measure and reject it, says Carl Bearden, executive director of United for Missouri, a Springfield-based…

United GOP Thwarting Obama's Campaign Finance Bill

WHERE ARE THE INNOVATORS IN HEALTH CARE DELIVERY?

In a normal market, wherever there is waste, entrepreneurs are likely to be in hot pursuit -- figuring out ways to profit from its elimination by cost-reducing, quality-enhancing innovations. Why isn't this happening in health care? As it turns out, there is a lot of innovation here. But all too often, it's the wrong kind, says John Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow of the National Center for Policy…

PRESIDENT OBAMA'S JOBS ERRORS

President Obama has failed spectacularly on his promise to deliver jobs. What were his biggest mistakes, asks Daniel J. Mitchell, a senior fellow with the Cato Institute.

Let's start with two commonsense observations:

• Businesses are not charities; they only create jobs when they think that the total revenue generated by new workers will exceed the total cost of employing those workers.
• Also, it takes money to create…

DERAILED: MICHIGAN SHOULD HEED GREECE'S EXPERIENCE WITH LIGHT RAIL

Michigan leaders who are enamored with building new light-rail passenger lines should look to Greece's experience with its railway system, says Russ Harding, director of the Mackinac Center's Property Rights Network.

• The New York Times reports that Greece's Hellenic Railways is bleeding red ink at a rate of $3.8 million per day.
• The total debt of the Greek railway system has increased to $13…

How Dr. Berwick Will Control Your Doctor & You

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It's Official: President Obama's Pick to Run Medicare and Medicaid Believes in Rationing and Loves Britain's National Health Service (NHS)! Trampling on the Senate's constitutional prerogative to approve presidential appointments, last week President Obama appointed Dr. Donald Berwick as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) during a two-week Congressional recess.

Even members of the president's own…

THAT FABULOUS CUBAN HEALTH CARE

When the health care bill became law in March, Fidel Castro emerged from semiretirement to praise it as a "miracle." So it's a good time to check in on the state of the Cuban health care system. That's just what Laurie Garrett, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, does in the current issue of Foreign Affairs magazine.

The system is in an advanced state of collapse. It is bankrupting the state and driving doctors out of the…

FEDS WASTED MILLIONS IN UTILITIES PROGRAM FOR POOR

The Government Accounting Office (GAO), which monitors how Washington manages tax money, hasuncovered yet another expensive boondoggle amid the well-intentioned federal giveaway of billions of dollars, this time in the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, serving 8.3 million U.S. households.

The program is supposed to provide low-income households "energy assistance," another way of saying government-subsidized air…

SIX MONTHS TO GO UNTIL THE LARGEST TAX HIKES IN HISTORY

In just six months, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect. They will hit families and small businesses January 1, 2011, says Americans For Tax Reform.

The first wave will be the expiration of 2001 and 2003 Tax Relief. In 2001 and 2003, the GOP Congress enacted several tax cuts for investors, small business owners, and families. These will all expire on January 1, 2011:

• Personal…