A Shot Across the Bow from the Bay State
By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary) | January 19th at 09:58 PM |
Let’s cut right to the chase: Scott Brown’s resounding defeat of Martha Coakley demonstrates many things. Chief among these is the vulnerability of every Democrat in the current election year, the impotence of the Democrats’ current leader and sitting President to sway public opinion in any vital race (Corzine, Deeds, Coakley….), and the true unpopularity of the health care monstrosity the Democratic supermajority has been | Read More »
Republicans Offer Alternative to Democrats’ Government-Centric Health Care ‘Reform’ Proposals
By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary) | May 20th at 01:00 PM |
Shedding the Democrat-imposed and Republican-aided stereotype that they are the “Party of No” — no ideas, no cooperation, and no legislative alternatives — four Republicans today submitted a legislative alternative to the Democratic party’s federal government-centric health care “reform” proposals. This morning, Senators Dr. Tom Coburn (R-OK) and and Richard Burr (R-NC) and Representatives Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Devin Nunes (R-CA) announced their “Patients’ Choice | Read More »
Massachusetts’ Failed Attempt at Health Care ‘Reform’ an Example of What Not to Do
By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary) | March 27th at 10:00 AM |
In 2006, Governor Mitt Romney (R), working with a Democratic state legislature, passed and signed the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Act, a groundbreaking piece of legislation aimed at ensuring that every citizen of the Bay State possessed health insurance, while simultaneously lowering the cost of health coverage and improving access to quality care. Unfortunately, the program in practice has been a colossal failure, expanding state | Read More »