Trump strikes a blow for health care freedom
Free at last! That’s the message for millions who don’t get health coverage at work and, until now, faced two dismal options: going without insurance or paying ObamaCare’s soaring premiums. On Thursday, President Trump announced changes that will allow consumers to choose coverage options costing half of what ObamaCare’s cheapest bronze plans cost. Democrats are already accusing
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A Supreme test for a ‘war on cops’ outrage
The war on cops is moving from the streets to the US Supreme Court. Last week, the justices heard a case that threatens police officers with financial ruin if they make arrests and the charges don’t hold up. It began with a disorderly DC party. Washington, DC, police officers were called by neighbors at 1
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Exposing Dems’ lies on Trump tax-cut plan
President Trump has unveiled a plan to ignite economic growth and simplify the tax-filing ordeal. Sadly, top Democrats are responding with divisive rhetoric and lies. Sen. Chuck Schumer dismisses the plan as “wealth-fare.” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi calls the plan “giveaways to big corporations and billionaires.” Intent on stoking envy, these class warriors are willing
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The beginning of the end for campus kangaroo courts
Good news for college men: You’re welcome again on campus. On Friday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos ripped up the Obama administration’s one-sided rules on how colleges and universities handle accusations of sexual assault and misconduct. The rules, imposed in 2011, were so stacked against the accused — usually young men — that dozens of innocent male
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How BernieCare slams working people
Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All Act, introduced last Wednesday, outlaws private health insurance. Curiously, not one of the Democratic presidential wannabes crowding around Sanders for photo ops mentioned this alarming fact. If Sanders has his way, 180 million Americans who currently have private coverage would have it ripped away and be automatically enrolled in public
Read MoreBernie Sanders Wants to Take Away Your Health Insurance!
“Warning: Bernie Sanders Wants to Take Away Your Health Insurance!” Statement by Betsy McCaughey, Ph.D. Senior Fellow, London Center for Policy Research September 14, 2017 “The Sanders “Medicare for All Act” released yesterday outlaws private health insurance. (See pages 7-8.) The bill doesn’t just offer government insurance to people who need or want it. Sanders
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Democrats’ latest bid to rig election rules
If you can’t win, change the rules. That’s the Democratic Party’s new playbook. Democrats are urging the US Supreme Court to redraw Wisconsin’s electoral map, claiming Republican lawmakers drew it unfairly. If the justices toss Wisconsin’s map and dictate new rules for election mapmaking, it could turn winners into losers and vice versa in many states.
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ObamaCare’s Middle Class Uninsured Crisis
Brace yourself for the next health insurance crisis: the uninsured middle class. The Affordable Care Act added millions of mostly poor people to the insurance rolls. But the law is driving premiums so high that middle-class people can no longer afford insurance. Several million are expected to drop coverage in 2018. Under ObamaCare, poor lives
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Feds Warn Nursing Homes Deadly
Nursing home residents trapped in wheelchairs with floodwaters rising to their waists — the photo of Hurricane Harvey everyone’s seen. But even where the weather’s fine, nursing home residents are in danger. An alert issued Monday by the inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services calls for urgent action. It cites incidents in 33
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Trump’s Trade Mandate
Most shoppers prefer to buy American. But given a choice between an American-made product and a cheaper import from China, Mexico, or another low wage country, they’ll go for the bargain. That’s one reason millions of American factory workers have lost their jobs. In last year’s presidential election, Donald Trump put the collapse of American
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