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  House Republicans this week promised to offer a plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare within a month. It’s not a moment too soon. ObamaCare’s collapsing. UnitedHealth will abandon most ObamaCare markets, the insurer announced Tuesday. Giant insurers like Aetna and the BlueCross Blue Shield Association are next. They warned last week losses trying to

  If you’re employed, beware.   An alarming attitude is sweeping the nation that your paycheck is fair  game to fix any social problem.  Left wing legislators across the nation are mandating deductions from everyone’s paycheck  to fund paid family medical leave programs.  The programs are used mostly by women to stay home with their newborns.   Sounds warm and fuzzy, but looting

  By BETSY MCCAUGHEY and MICHAEL B. MUKASEY                   April 11, 2016 President Obama is hitting the road and the airwaves trying to convince the nation that the Senate has a constitutional duty to consider his nominee, Merrick Garland, for the Supreme Court. On Thursday the president said at the University of Chicago

Our dysfunctional federal government’s bungling is killing people. Example: Every year, more than half a million patients undergoing a common medical procedure risk getting a superbug infection because their doctor is using a contaminated instrument. A doctor inserts a thin, tubular scope down your throat and into your digestive system to treat cancer and other

  The Clinton campaign is finally owning up to what most Americans learned the hard way: The Affordable Care Act is anything but affordable. In fact, its costs are “crushing” people who have to buy health insurance. Hillary Clinton vows to fix the problem, but don’t count on it. Her remedies are bad medicine —

  If you have a retirement fund or pension, or you’re a taxpayer, get ready to have your pockets picked. The Obama administration wants Congress to enact a bankruptcy plan for Puerto Rico, forcing holders of Puerto Rican debt (including New York City pension funds) to settle for less than they’re owed. Puerto Rico is

Consumer Reports is sounding the alarm about a vicious infection raging through hospitals, even prestigious ones such as Montefiore Medical Center in The Bronx and Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. Clostridium difficile, or C. diff for short, sickens half a million people each year, and 29,000 of them die within a month. New Yorkers face

  President Obama heads to Cuba in two weeks, eager to make more travel and trade concessions to the Communist regime there. But members of Congress worry that Obama is so eager to befriend Cuba he’ll cave to any demand — including handing over the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay. Chairman of the House

  Hillary Clinton is sweeping the Democratic primaries across the South by capturing nearly all the black vote — a staggering 86 percent in South Carolina. But she’s doing it with poisonous lies designed to stoke racial resentment. Clinton routinely tells blacks they are the victims of “systemic racism” and scolds whites for not demonstrating

  The Obama administration will tell any lie and break any law to prevent the president’s signature health-care program from collapsing. Insurance companies such as UnitedHealthcare and Aetna are losing billions trying to sell ObamaCare plans, and the risk is they’ll drop out at the end of 2016. No insurance companies means no ObamaCare. In