BamCare’s next crisis
By BETSY MCCAUGHEY The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reported last week that health spending in the United States inched up 3.9 percent in 2011 — the latest available statistics, and the third year in a row it rose at that tiny rate. It’s the slowest pace in 52 years, after decades of
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ObamaCare Gives Government Power to Intrude On Your Privacy
By BETSY MCCAUGHEY Section 2716 of the Obama health law bars the government from making doctors or hospitals collect information on who owns a gun. Suddenly this little-known provision tucked into page 776 of the law is provoking outrage from gun opponents objecting to the National Rifle Association’s political clout. In truth, the NRA should
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Time to Demand an End to Wasteful Federal Spending
By Betsy McCaughey Article 1 Sect. 7 of the U.S. Constitution begins, “All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.” The framers put the House in charge of taxes because House members — elected every two years from small districts — would be the first to know if a tax were
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Fiscal-Cliff Ink Barely Dry, Obama Already Moving To Hike More Taxes
By Betsy McCaughey When you get your W-2 wage and tax statement this month, look at Box 12. For the first time ever, as a result of the Obama health law, the IRS is requiring employers to report the cost of health insurance you get at work. The Obama administration claims that it’s informational, so
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Beware: ObamaCare’s Now Reality
By Betsy McCaughey President Obama’s re-election and Democratic gains in the US Senate end any possibility of repealing the Obama health law. It will roll out as written, imposing major changes soon on you and your family. If you are uninsured because you can’t afford it, help may be on the way. But if you
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Voter ID Laws Might Lead Groups To Challenge Romney Win
By Betsy McCaughey If Mitt Romney ekes out an Electoral College with razor-thin majorities in one or more states, expect civil rights groups to challenge the outcome in court, claiming that new anti-fraud voting laws hurt minority voters. This could plunge the nation into weeks of uncertainty, like Bush v. Gore all over again. Since the 2010 elections,
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Atlas Shrugged Shows What A Second Obama Term Will Bring
By Betsy McCaughey The cultural elite are panning the movie “Atlas Shrugged II,” which opened two weeks ago. Don’t be bamboozled. The movie is a nail-biter. You’ll watch train passengers speed unknowingly to their deaths inside a Rocky Mountain tunnel and the movie’s heroine swerve through mountain passes in a small plane chasing a scientist
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Obama Dooms Seniors to Ravages of Aging
By Betsy McCaughey On Oct. 1, the Obama administration started awarding bonus points to hospitals that spend the least on elderly patients. It will result in fewer knee replacements, hip replacements, angioplasty, bypass surgery and cataract operations. These are the five procedures that have transformed aging for older Americans. They used to languish in wheelchairs and nursing
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Obama’s Medicare Cuts: Real and Deadly
By Betsy McCaughey Expect Joe Biden to tee up Medicare in tonight’s debate against Paul Ryan. In campaign stops this week, the vice president repeatedly harangued that the Romney/Ryan ticket “says that we’re cutting Medicare. Nothing could be further from the truth.” Sorry, Joe: It’s exactly the truth. The Congressional Budget Office confirms that the Obama health
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Each Year Tens of Thousands of Seniors Are Likely To Die Because of Obamacare’s Cuts to Hospitals
By Betsy McCaughey President Obama is wooing seniors with promises to protect Medicare as they’ve known it. On the defensive because of the $716 billion his health care law takes from Medicare, Obama assures seniors he’s cutting payments to hospitals and other providers, not their benefits. Don’t be bamboozled. It’s illogical to think that reducing
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