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By Betsy McCaughey President Obama is criss-crossing the country, warning that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would “end Medicare as we know it.” Attention, New York’s 3 million seniors: Don’t be fooled. It’s the Obama health law that destroyed Medicare, though the impact will not be felt for another year or more. Scientific evidence indicates

 By Betsy McCaughey Defenders of President Obama’s health law are flaunting a Congressional Budget Office claim that overturning the law would worsen the federal deficit. Repeal, said a CBO report late last month, would cancel $890 billion in new entitlement spending but eliminate revenues of even greater magnitude. Don’t be bamboozled. Even if it were

By Betsy McCaughey Republican politicians, including presidential contender Mitt Romney, should stop calling the ObamaCare penalty a tax. It is not a tax. Calling it a tax legitimizes Chief Justice John Roberts’ twisted decision, adding credibility to the dangerous notion that Congress can tax us to force us to do almost anything. That’s too high a

By Betsy McCaughey In the runup to today’s Supreme Court ruling on the Obama health law, the White House launched a series of ads on the controversial law’s virtues, as if to say to the public, “You’ll be sorry.” Don’t be bamboozled. The ads spotlight two provisions: one protecting Americans with preexisting conditions, the other

By Betsy McCaughey The Obama administration launched a pre-emptive ad blitz on June 19, touting the Obama health law’s benefits days before the U.S. Supreme Court will announce its ruling on ObamaCare’s constitutionality. The ads claim there’s a lot to lose if the law is struck down. But they say nothing about the hiring boom

By Betsy McCaughey As the U.S. Supreme Court deliberates the Obama healthcare law, the court itself is on trial. Obamacare supporters are attacking the justices as “hacks dressed up in black robes,”calling for limits on their life tenure, and claiming judicial review is undemocratic. Worse, President Obama and his Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius

 By Betsy McCaughey Sparks flew in the US Supreme Court yesterday, as lawyers for and against the Obama health law’s individual mandate argued over whether there are limits on what the federal government can compel Americans to do or to buy. Defenders of the law say making insurance compulsory will solve a national problem by

By Betsy McCaughey Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned this week that “extremists” want to control women, even in the U.S. “They even want to control the decisions we make about our own health and bodies.” Sounds like the president’s health law. Under the new law, women will lose choices and privacy they fought for

By Betsy McCaughey The Obama law vastly expands the president’s power over your insurance plan, your doctors’ decisions and your medical records. Not just this president’s power, but every future president. Why are women’s rights advocates so sure they’ll always agree with the person occupying the White House? Flash back to the Bush-era battle over the Partial