McCaughey: Obama Had to Send Health Law to High Court
By Martin Gould The Obama administration had no choice but to refer challenges to its signature healthcare law direct to the Supreme Court. Without that decision, uncertainty could have lasted for years, expert and former New York Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey tells Newsmax. “I was thrilled when I heard,” she said. “The country would have
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McCaughey: Surge in Costs Start Of Obamacare Disaster
A new report claims that Obamacare is only negligibly responsible for the surge in health insurance premiums this year, but former New York Lt. Gov. and healthcare expert Betsy McCaughey says its provisions do come with a steep price and there is “no tooth fairy.” The survey of private and public employers conducted by the
Read MoreNew York Times Takes a Fall for the President
By Betsy McCaughey The New York Times took a fall for President Barack Obama, running a front page headline today: “Young Adults Make Gains in Health Insurance Coverage.” The story goes on to quote Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius declaring “The Affordable Care Act is working.” This is how the Obama administration and
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Obama Health Law Raises Important Constitutional Issues
By Betsy McCaughey Contrary to the headlines, the 4th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals did not “uphold” the constitutionality of the Obama health law’s mandatory insurance provision last week. The court dismissed the Virginia challenge for technical reasons but made a point of saying that the health law raises important constitutional questions that should be
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Health ‘Reform’ Has Sent Costs Soaring
By Betsy McCaughey Overall job growth hit zero in August, but jobs in health care are growing steadily. That would be good news, except that growth in this industry is increasingly paid for by taxpayers or new federal borrowing. And despite the sales pitch to the contrary, the Obama health law is making things worse.
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PA Federal Judge Rules Against Insurance Mandate
By Marc Levy HARRISBURG, Pa. – The requirement in the national health-care overhaul law that individuals buy health insurance is unconstitutional, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled Tuesday in a question that the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to settle. The suit decided by Judge Christopher C. Conner in Harrisburg is one of more than
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Public Bamboozled: A Penny of Cuts for Every Dollar of Debt
By Betsy McCaughey More than half the members of the House of Representatives avoided holding customary town hall meetings during their August vacation. No wonder they’re ducking the public. The spin Congress put on the debt ceiling deal doesn’t jibe with the facts. Now the six Democrats on the newly created deficit reduction committee are
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Avoid this Constitutional Booby Trap
By Betsy McCaughey We the people are being shoved between a rock and a hard place — forced to accept tax hikes imposed by a deficit-reduction committee or go along with cuts to defense and national security that, we are told, will imperil our safety and harm our troops. Last Tuesday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
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Why We Won in the 11th Circuit
By Betsy McCaughey In the 304-page ruling it handed down last Friday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals eviscerated a key provision of the Obama health law, ruling it unconstitutional. The court gutted the Obama lawyers’ key rationale for making all Americans buy health insurance, calling their argument less than truthful, indeed a “convenient sleight
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Health Law Ruling Raises NEW Issue-Could be Silver Bullet
By Betsy McCaughey On Friday, a federal appeals court ruled that the Obama health law’s requirement that every American buy health insurance is unconstitutional — bringing the legal challenge to Obama-Care much closer to the US Supreme Court. This is the highest profile of the several cases winding their way through the courts, filed by
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