Is the HHS Director Illegally Campaigning … Again?

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  May 17th at 09:23 PM  | 

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has run afoul of the law again, urging companies whose future she controls to donate to do work her agency lacks the funds to do. Congress has asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate. Secretary Sebelius has been shaking down the industry she controls, raising funds for Enroll America, an alliance of community organizers and health sector businesses. This is not | Read More »

End the Obamacare Slush Fund

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  April 24th at 01:31 PM  | 

As Dean Clancy wrote last week at FreedomWorks, the House today will take up the Helping Sick Americans Now Act (H.R.1549). The bill cuts a slush fund and uses the money to subsidize insurance for the sickest Americans. Congress should pass it. Contrary to various claims, this bill neither cripples Obamacare implementation nor fixes Obamacare. It merely forces the Obamacare train wreck to get by on its | Read More »

Arkansas Statists Fail to Expand Obamacare

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  April 16th at 04:41 AM  | 

Conservatives in the Arkansas legislature held firm against funding what the statists in Arkansas are calling a “private option” for Medicaid expansion under Obamacare. It’s really just a different way to expand socialized medicine. The legislature should not fund this boondoggle. Arkansas has a Democrat governor and Republican legislature. Arkansas DHS spokesperson Amy Weber told me Friday, “It really lies in the hands of our | Read More »

Mr. Boehner: Lead, Or Get Out Of The Way

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  November 10th at 09:17 PM  | 

The Speaker of the House has incredible power. If the Republic is to last, he — or she — must wield that power effectively and now more than ever, rein in Congress.  The Speaker of the House has the power to force repeal of Obamacare, to defund it, and generally to set the agenda for the government in ways not even the President can. Who | Read More »

Republicans Oppose Obamacare and the War on Women

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  August 23rd at 09:44 AM  | 

A Republican National Convention delegate has fought back against the ongoing “War on Women” mantra of the Left by inserting into her party’s platform language highlighting the absurdity of the entire idea. The platform also includes most of FreedomWorks activists’ main agenda. Sharee Langenstein of Illinois authored the amendment to the party’s platform: “Through Obamacare, the Obama Administration has promoted the notion of abortion as healthcare. We, | Read More »

Book Review: The Great Destroyer

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  June 4th at 12:14 PM  | 

David Limbaugh’s anticipated new book, The Great Destroyer (Regnery Publishing), is finally out and it doesn’t disappoint. Following on his earlier work Crimes Against Liberty, Limbaugh carefully and thoughtfully delivers another devastating critique of the Obama Administration. Conservative and libertarian readers will appreciate Limbaugh’s recollection of Mr. Obama’s transgressions, though some may find daunting the sheer volume of the administration’s failures, arrogance, and deceit. Because of | Read More »

Doubts Raised about Virginia ObamaCare Decision

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  September 14th at 05:37 PM  | 

The Fourth Circuit threw out the Commonwealth of Virginia’s suit challenging the constitutionality ObamaCare’s individual mandate, but it appears to have done so with a basic error in the facts of the case. Governor Bob McDonnell signed the Virginia law on which the suit is based days before ObamaCare went into effect, not afterward as the Fourth Circuit had it.

Doubling Down on Obamacare

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  July 9th at 08:20 AM  | 

President Obama’s appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) may be the beginning of the end for socialized medicine. When the Democrats passed their health insurance nationalization scheme known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare), they knew it was unpopular.  The conventional wisdom among liberals was that it would become more popular with the | Read More »

The Inescapability of Death Panels

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  September 29th at 10:47 PM  | 

But for the sake of argument, I will grant that no such thing as a death panel is envisioned in ObamaCare. How does it save money?

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Catholic Bishops: If Obamacare Funds Abortion, We Oppose Obamacare

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  August 11th at 03:46 PM  | 

According to the Catholic Key Blog, the US Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) will oppose Obamacare unless it specifically denies funding for abortion. The USCCB, which is to say, the Catholic Church, has long been an advocate for health care reform.  But the Bishops are unwilling to accept a health measure unless language is inserted prohibiting coverage for abortion in any government-run health insurance. On | Read More »