Posted by
Always To The Right on Sunday, November 07, 2010 10:46:05 PM
Repeal It Now!
Our country was founded on a revolutionary concept -- a new kind of government both empowered and controlled by its citizens.
This idea, the very foundation of our great experiment in democracy, was
betrayed with enactment of the new healthcare act. Every poll showed
that a majority of
Americans rejected this legislation and yet Congress ran right over the
majority will of the American people and enacted it into law.
This act must be repealed for this reason alone but there are many more good reasons.
Wishful
Thinking about ObamaCare Investigations
Posted by Michael F. Cannon
NPR found two Republicans who caution House Republicans that their efforts
to investigate ObamaCare could “backfire.”
But all those hearings could also have the opposite effect — giving
the administration a chance to make its case in favor of the law, a case
that often got
drowned out during the election campaign.
“The next round of this, while there will continue to be the broad
sloganeering on both sides, will presumably get a little bit more into
the detail,”
says Martin Corry, a health care lobbyist and former official at the
Department of Health and Human Services during the Bush administration.
“So if you’re a
family with a 22-year-old still in college, you may not want to see that
provision [that lets grown children stay on their parents' health
plans] repealed.”
… Former Republican Sen. Dave Durenberger of Minnesota says he thinks
the Democratic-led Senate could try to dampen the House repeal efforts
by holding a
series of hearings of its own.
Let me see if I understand. If House Republicans hold hearings, it
will be a boon to ObamaCare. Even though House and Senate Democrats
stoutly
refused to hold such hearings. If House Republicans hold hearings,
sloganeering will give way to detail. And if House Republicans hold
hearings, ObamaCare
supporters will finally be able to get their message out — something
they were unable to do while they controlled both chambers of Congress
and the
executive branch.
Republicans to attack healthcare law funding
WASHINGTON | Thu Nov 4, 2010 2:45pm EDT
U.S. congressional Republicans will try to repeal President Barack
Obama's healthcare law next year but their leader in the Senate
acknowledged on Thursday they
will likely have to settle for far more modest changes.
ObamaCare Takes a
Shellacking
Posted by Michael F. Cannon
It wasn’t just the party of ObamaCare or its champion that took a “shellacking” at the polls yesterday. The law took a shellacking as well. One pollster reports:
This election was a clear signal that voters do not want President
Obama’s health care plan. Nearly half (45%) of voters say their vote
was a message
to oppose the President’s plan….
Arizona and Oklahoma passed constitutional amendments designed to block ObamaCare’s individual
mandate. Many new governors
either plan to join
the 22 states already challenging ObamaCare in court, or to block its
implementation in other ways. Congressional Republicans appear
determined to use
every tool in their arsenal to repeal it.
President Obama is striking a conciliatory note, saying he is open to “tweaks:”
If the Republicans have ideas for how to improve our healthcare
system, if they want to suggest modifications that would deliver faster,
more effective
reform… I am happy to consider some of those ideas.
There is room to doubt his sincerity. The Washington Post has reported that when
President Obama begins a sentence with, Let me be clear, it is
“a signal that what follows will be anything but.” Obama has likewise
claimed open-mindedness and flexibility when his behavior exhibited the
opposite qualities. (Remember how last year’s White House summit on health care was all about gathering “the best ideas.”)
Yet with a firm conviction that facts and science and argument still matter, I resubmit to President Obama this
Cato Policy Analysis: Yes, Mr. President: A Free Market Can Fix Health Care. In fact, a free market is the
only thing that will. But a reasonably free market is impossible with ObamaCare still on the books.
I doubt the president will read it. But Republicans should. They
seem pretty solid on Repeal. They’re weaker on Replace.