Federal fiddling lets superbugs kill
Seven patients at UCLA’s Ronald Reagan Medical Center contracted a deadly superbug from an utterly routine medical procedure. Two have died; a third, an 18-year-old boy, fights on for his life after 83 days in the hospital, mostly in intensive care. All this suffering was preventable. The Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration
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VA empire strikes back — bureaucrats vs. veterans’ health
President Obama and the Veterans Administration bureaucracy are already sabotaging the VA-reform law passed in August. The ink is barely dry on the 8.6 million “Choice Cards” that supposedly allow vets to see a doctor outside the delay-plagued VA system. But Obama’s budget tries to snatch the $10 billion allocated for choice and let VA
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The GOP‘s ‘ObamaCare backup’ — ready if Supremes gut law
For five years, President Obama has ridiculed Republicans for not having “a meaningful alternative” to ObamaCare. The tables are turning. Republicans announced a plan on Wednesday, just two weeks before the Supreme Court will hear a new, major challenge to the health law. If the president loses in court, he will have to deal with
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MOVING THE GOAL POSTS
When is a deal not a deal? When it’s with Barack Obama. On Monday, President Obama announced his fiscal 2016 budget with a whopping 7 percent increase in federal spending. That breaks a deal he signed with Congress back in 2011. In exchange for permission to hike federal borrowing by a whopping $2.1 trillion —
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For his next promise Obama’s deal-breaking budget
President Obama says he’s had enough of “mindless austerity”; he wants to undo “the arbitrary across-the-board cuts known as ‘the sequester’ ” that he agreed to back in 2011. Releasing his fiscal 2016 budget on Monday, Obama proposed a whopping 7 percent increase in federal spending. No matter that this means breaking his agreement three-plus
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