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By Betsy McCaughey Congress’s next fact-finding mission should be to the cramped living quarters of most Europeans, who also cannot afford modern conveniences. The lower standard of living in Europe should serve as a warning that the United States must avoid becoming “Europeanized.” In fact, the spendaholics in Congress should take a close look at the

By Betsy McCaughey If you’re visiting a friend or relative in the hospital, forget taking flowers or candy. Bring gloves and a canister of bleach wipes. Several new studies show that hospital patients are at significantly higher risk of getting an infection if they are placed in a room where a previous occupant had an infection. Room

By Betsy McCaughey Rep. Anthony Weiner announced this week that he’s seeking treatment for sexual “addiction” — mortifying in formation that a private person would want to keep to himself. But it soon may be difficult to keep any sensitive medical problem strictly between you and your doctor. The 2009 stimulus and the Obama health

By Betsy McCaughey Everybody knows that if you don’t pay to maintain and repair your car, you limit its life. The same is true with human beings. We need medical care to avoid becoming clunkers — disabled, worn out, parked in wheelchairs and nursing homes. For nearly a half century, Medicare has enabled seniors to

By Betsy McCaughey A toxic political strategy is spreading across the land, one that involves Medicare. It threatens to bamboozle voters and allow the 2012 election to turn on a lie. Democrats are making the obscenely false claim that they will “save Medicare as we’ve known it.” On Wednesday, Democrats used this deceptive strategy to

By Betsy McCaughey In today’s special election for the 26th district US House seat in western New York, Democrats are trying out a tactic they’re sure to use nationwide in 2012 — the obscenely false claim that they will save “Medicare as we know it” from Republican efforts to reform it. The truth is, the Obama health law,

By Betsy McCaughey If your shopaholic teenager maxed out on the credit card , your solution wouldn’t be to increase the credit line. You’d stop the spending. The same common sense applies to raising the nation’s debt ceiling. America has a spendaholic president. Don’t raise the debt ceiling without demanding an enforceable limit on future

By Betsy McCaughey The Democratic Party is urging Americans to choose Medicare as we’ve always known it rather than a new plan by Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) that would enroll seniors in private health insurance beginning in 2022. This choice is a hoax: Medicare as we’ve always known it is already gone. It was

By Betsy McCaughey In his speech to the nation on Wednesday, President Obama joined the chorus of critics howling that Rep. Paul Ryan’s federal budget proposal is cruel to seniors and will decimate Medicare as we’ve known it. The data show the opposite. Seniors and baby boomers will be better off under the Ryan proposal than under

By Betsy McCaughey After listening to President Obama’s speech yesterday, I’d trust Bernie Madoff with my Medicare before I’d trust Obama. The president portrayed himself as protecting seniors, and claimed Congressman Paul Ryan’s plan would be cruel to seniors. The data show the opposite. Seniors and baby boomers will be better off under the Ryan