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By Betsy McCaughey Hospice care isn’t only a beneficial service for dying patients. It’s also a $4.5 billion industry flexing its muscle in state capitals — including Albany, where a state senator faces federal charges for taking hospice-industry bribes. Since coming to America from Europe in 1974, the hospice movement has boomed — and changed.

By Betsy McCaughey On Feb. 22, a District of Columbia federal judge, Gladys Kessler, ruled Obamacare constitutional, parroting the administration’s claim that because all Americans are “active” in the healthcare marketplace, Congress can use its commerce power to compel them to buy health insurance. Kessler is the third federal judge to buy the argument, and

By Betsy McCaughey Fourteen months ago, a reporter asked then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi if the Constitution allows the federal government to force people to have health insurance. Amazed, she answered, “Are you serious?” It’s looking more serious all the time: Yesterday, federal Judge Roger Vinson ruled the entire Obama health law unenforceable. Vinson’s decision won’t take

By Betsy McCaughey Defenders of ObamaCare have seized upon a Jan. 6 letter from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to House Speaker John Boehner alleging that repeal would “increase the deficit.” Don’t be bamboozled. When big spenders call for “deficit reduction,” they mean raising your taxes. That is what ObamaCare does. The CBO letter says that the

By Betsy McCaughey New York State’s Speaker of the Assembly Sheldon Silver, who has had a tight grip on that legislative body since 1994, made big news at newly elected Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s State of the State speech on Tuesday in Albany. Silver declared that overall state spending must be cut. That reversal from the

By Betsy McCaughey The Obama White House has backed off expressly including end-of-life counseling as part of annual well visits for seniors on Medicare. That is a victory for Americans of all ages who spoke out against this government intrusion in how and when we die. But two problems remain to be solved: the government’s

By Betsy McCaughey Americans ought to make this lame duck session of Congress the last in history. Members who lose re-election have no moral authority to continue governing: They were fired by the voters, who should demand that they clean out their desks and go home. On Nov. 2, the voters replaced the Democratic majority

By Betsy McCaughey Only a week after the historic trouncing of Democrats in the House of Representatives, GOP House leaders seem to be forgetting why they won. Already, GOP chiefs are divvying up key committee chairmanships with the same people who ran things last time ’round jockeying to get their power back. If that happens,

By Betsy McCaughey Republicans are expected to win enough seats in tomorrow’s elections to control the House of Representatives. Already, GOP chiefs are divvying up key committee chairmanships — with the same people who ran things last time ’round jockeying to get their power back. If that happens, voters who supported Republican candidates to rein

By Betsy McCaughey Yesterday, in a federal courtroom far from the noise of town-hall meetings, Tea Parties and talk shows, Judge Roger Vinson quietly compelled the Obama administration to show why the new health law, enacted on March 23, does not trample the Constitution. The ruling is a victory for the cause of freedom and