Betsy

By Betsy McCaughey The Obama administration launched a pre-emptive ad blitz on June 19, touting the Obama health law’s benefits days before the U.S. Supreme Court will announce its ruling on ObamaCare’s constitutionality. The ads claim there’s a lot to lose if the law is struck down. But they say nothing about the hiring boom

By Betsy McCaughey As the U.S. Supreme Court deliberates the Obama healthcare law, the court itself is on trial. Obamacare supporters are attacking the justices as “hacks dressed up in black robes,”calling for limits on their life tenure, and claiming judicial review is undemocratic. Worse, President Obama and his Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius

 By Betsy McCaughey Sparks flew in the US Supreme Court yesterday, as lawyers for and against the Obama health law’s individual mandate argued over whether there are limits on what the federal government can compel Americans to do or to buy. Defenders of the law say making insurance compulsory will solve a national problem by

By Betsy McCaughey Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned this week that “extremists” want to control women, even in the U.S. “They even want to control the decisions we make about our own health and bodies.” Sounds like the president’s health law. Under the new law, women will lose choices and privacy they fought for

By Betsy McCaughey The Obama law vastly expands the president’s power over your insurance plan, your doctors’ decisions and your medical records. Not just this president’s power, but every future president. Why are women’s rights advocates so sure they’ll always agree with the person occupying the White House? Flash back to the Bush-era battle over the Partial

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