Betsy

By Betsy McCaughey Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown law student defending mandatory contraception and sterilization coverage in all health plans, is being hailed as a defender of women’s rights. In fact, her position is dangerous to women. The power to compel health insurers to provide contraceptives is the power to stop insurers from providing them. The

By Betsy McCaughey Presidential aspirant Mitt Romney may not have intended that the mandatory health insurance law he signed in 2006 would look like the Obama health law. But the Massachusetts law does a lot more than cover the uninsured (a worthy goal). The law broadens the powers of government to dictate treatment decisions and

By Betsy McCaughey Data released last week by two federal agencies — the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) — stripped the Obama health law of its constitutional and economic justifications, like an emperor with no clothes. The new facts should seal a victory for the

By Betsy McCaughey On Monday night, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich assailed the food stamp president, Barack Obama, for enabling a record 45 million people to go on the food dole. Food stamps are only one part of the dependency boom. More Americans are also choosing to go on lifetime disability, even though they are

By Steven B. Cohen, Ph.D. and William Yu, MA McCaughey: The true purpose of the Obama health law’s mandate is to force healthy people to buy expensive health plans to subsidize the small minority of extremely sick people who want coverage without regard to pre-existing conditions. The law victimizes the vast majority of under age

Betsy McCaughey This week’s decisive vote in Ohio is a bellwether of the 2012 presidential election. With few exceptions, no presidential candidate has won the nation without winning Ohio. Ohioans seem to speak for the nation. So their repudiation of the Obama health law — the president’s signature legislation — should serve as an ominous

By Betsy McCaughey The British medical journal Lancet reported last month that 32% of elderly American patients undergo surgery in the year before they die, a statistic culled from Medicare data. In an accompanying editorial, Dr. Amy Kelley of Mount Sinai School of Medicine labeled the 32% figure a “call to action”-to reduce costly surgeries,

By Betsy McCaughey The culture war is moving from when life begins to how it should end. Like a drum beat, supporters of the Obama agenda are protesting that the elderly are consuming too many health resources, and their care needs to be cut back. The current target of this unrelenting campaign against the elderly

By Betsy McCaughey America is in danger of becoming a Medicaid nation. It will bankrupt our government, make private health plans unaffordable, and rob the elderly of the care they’ve been counting on. The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction — the supercommittee — should repeal the vast expansion of Medicaid enacted just 18 months

By Betsy McCaughey In the presidential debates and in media profiles, Gov. Rick Perry is under fire for allegedly failing to meet the healthcare needs of Texans. Assailants claim that Texas has the highest rate of uninsured residents, a staggering 24.6 percent. But an honest look at the U.S. Census data released last week points