Red States Rising
Betsy McCaughey talks about rise of “red” states on CNBC’s “The Kudlow Report.”
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Betsy McCaughey releases an every-man’s guide to the Obama Health Law
Worried about what the Affordable Care Act will do to your health care? Dr. McCaughey’s new book “Surviving Obamacare: A Consumer’s Guide to the New Health Law” tells what you need to know.
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Coming Hikes In Minimum Wage Hurts, Not Helps, Low-Income Workers
Battles are brewing in New York, California, Minnesota and the nation’s capital over hiking minimum wages, with Democrats having the votes to ram through hikes in all four cases.
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BamCare’s next crisis
By BETSY MCCAUGHEY The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reported last week that health spending in the United States inched up 3.9 percent in 2011 — the latest available statistics, and the third year in a row it rose at that tiny rate. It’s the slowest pace in 52 years, after decades of
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ObamaCare Gives Government Power to Intrude On Your Privacy
By BETSY MCCAUGHEY Section 2716 of the Obama health law bars the government from making doctors or hospitals collect information on who owns a gun. Suddenly this little-known provision tucked into page 776 of the law is provoking outrage from gun opponents objecting to the National Rifle Association’s political clout. In truth, the NRA should
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Time to Demand an End to Wasteful Federal Spending
By Betsy McCaughey Article 1 Sect. 7 of the U.S. Constitution begins, “All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.” The framers put the House in charge of taxes because House members — elected every two years from small districts — would be the first to know if a tax were
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Fiscal-Cliff Ink Barely Dry, Obama Already Moving To Hike More Taxes
By Betsy McCaughey When you get your W-2 wage and tax statement this month, look at Box 12. For the first time ever, as a result of the Obama health law, the IRS is requiring employers to report the cost of health insurance you get at work. The Obama administration claims that it’s informational, so
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Beware: ObamaCare’s Now Reality
By Betsy McCaughey President Obama’s re-election and Democratic gains in the US Senate end any possibility of repealing the Obama health law. It will roll out as written, imposing major changes soon on you and your family. If you are uninsured because you can’t afford it, help may be on the way. But if you
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Voter ID Laws Might Lead Groups To Challenge Romney Win
By Betsy McCaughey If Mitt Romney ekes out an Electoral College with razor-thin majorities in one or more states, expect civil rights groups to challenge the outcome in court, claiming that new anti-fraud voting laws hurt minority voters. This could plunge the nation into weeks of uncertainty, like Bush v. Gore all over again. Since the 2010 elections,
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Atlas Shrugged Shows What A Second Obama Term Will Bring
By Betsy McCaughey The cultural elite are panning the movie “Atlas Shrugged II,” which opened two weeks ago. Don’t be bamboozled. The movie is a nail-biter. You’ll watch train passengers speed unknowingly to their deaths inside a Rocky Mountain tunnel and the movie’s heroine swerve through mountain passes in a small plane chasing a scientist
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