More Court proceedings over Obama Mandate; President Misleads Denver Audience

By Dave Andrusko In for a dime, in for tens of millions (if not hundreds of millions) of dollars. Pro-abortion President Barack Obama doubled/tripled/quadrupled down today on his mandate forcing religious institutions and businesses to pay for health insurance plans that cover medical procedures and drugs over their religious or moral convictions. Obama’s speech, delivered …

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So… ObamaCare WAS a disaster?

By Dave Andrusko As noted previously, I’m using today to catch up for developments over the weekend and on Labor Day. I watched (or listened to on replay on CSPAN radio) some of the Sunday talks shows, but missed The Chris Matthews Show. The website www.newsbusters.org posted a quote from the program that is very, …

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Even critics of ObamaCare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board Miss Its Worst Rationing

By Burke J. Balch, J.D., director of National Right to Life’s Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics Recently there has been a fair amount of press coverage of the effort to repeal a central aspect of the Obama Health Care Law – the unelected 18-member Independent Payment Advisory Board given sweeping powers to limit what …

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Supreme Court Rejects Expedited Review of ObamaCare

By Dave Andrusko In a not unexpected decision, earlier today the United States Supreme Court turned down a request by the attorney general of Virginia to expedite a review of ObamaCare, the constitutionality of which has been upheld by some courts and rejected by others. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli had told the Court that the …

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Shame on the Washington Post for its Lousy Poll

By Dave Andrusko This will be brief, but I feel I need to mention it because the poll is a perfect illustration of the kind of flim-flammery we will see a lot more of in the next 18 months. I knew something was wrong when I read the apologetic Washington Post Poll (“Obama’s Weaknesses on …

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Obama’s Weaknesses on Display in Today’s Washington Post Poll

By Dave Andrusko As promised, I am periodically updating you on 2012, even though the presidential waters seem relatively calm, compared to a comparable stage in 2007. Before I talk about what the Washington Post concluded today, a brief reference to last Friday’s discussion. We talked about “Obama Hype versus Gallup Reality.” I contrasted a …

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Even Worse than ObamaCare? Yes, that’s what the President Proposed Last Week

By Dave Andrusko National Review’s Rich Lowry is one of my favorite writers. He is blessed with a straightforward writing style and a real knack for translating very complicated issues into understandable language. That’s what he did in a piece I read today, titled “The Road to IPAB.” IPAB is an acronym for the Independent …

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Obama Proposes to Limit Americans’ Health Care Even More than Under ObamaCare

In the much ballyhooed debt-reduction “framework” President Obama revealed this week in a speech at George Washington University, the President proposed a dramatically graver limit on what Americans will be allowed to spend for our own healthcare than what will be imposed by the Obama Health Care Law, if it is not repealed before 2015. …

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Obama’s “Presidential Approval Index” Lowest Yet

By Dave Andrusko There are any number of ways of attempting to gauge a President’s public approval, the most customary being a straight up approval/disapproval numbers. But Rasmussen Reports also offers what amounts to an intensity gauge: what it calls the “Presidential Approval Index.” For the overall numbers, 44% of voters “say they at least …

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What the Experience of the British NHS May Tell Us about America’s Future Under ObamaCare

By Dave Andrusko For many reasons, including the vocal admiration of President Obama’s Medicare/Medicaid Chief David Berwick for the British National Health Services (NHS), skeptics of ObamaCare are watching developments in the NHS for signs of what could happen here, should ObamaCare not be repealed and replaced. A story that appeared yesterday in BBC News …

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What the Experience of the British NHS May Tell Us about America’s Future Under ObamaCare

By Dave Andrusko For many reasons, including the vocal admiration of President Obama’s Medicare/Medicaid Chief David Berwick for the British National Health Services (NHS), skeptics of ObamaCare are watching developments in the NHS for signs of what could happen here, should ObamaCare not be repealed and replaced. A story that appeared yesterday in BBC News …

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ObamaCare One Year Later: Still a Bigger Loser for Democrats

By Dave Andrusko When I was growing up, a common expressions in my neighborhood was “in for a dime, in for a dollar.” What it meant was that once you’re in, often in a losing proposition, you keep on going–even adding to what you’re doing–in the hope that in the end that Lady Luck will …

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