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By Betsy McCaughey In today’s special election for the 26th district US House seat in western New York, Democrats are trying out a tactic they’re sure to use nationwide in 2012 — the obscenely false claim that they will save “Medicare as we know it” from Republican efforts to reform it. The truth is, the Obama health law,

By Betsy McCaughey If your shopaholic teenager maxed out on the credit card , your solution wouldn’t be to increase the credit line. You’d stop the spending. The same common sense applies to raising the nation’s debt ceiling. America has a spendaholic president. Don’t raise the debt ceiling without demanding an enforceable limit on future

By Betsy McCaughey The Democratic Party is urging Americans to choose Medicare as we’ve always known it rather than a new plan by Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) that would enroll seniors in private health insurance beginning in 2022. This choice is a hoax: Medicare as we’ve always known it is already gone. It was

By Betsy McCaughey In his speech to the nation on Wednesday, President Obama joined the chorus of critics howling that Rep. Paul Ryan’s federal budget proposal is cruel to seniors and will decimate Medicare as we’ve known it. The data show the opposite. Seniors and baby boomers will be better off under the Ryan proposal than under

By Betsy McCaughey After listening to President Obama’s speech yesterday, I’d trust Bernie Madoff with my Medicare before I’d trust Obama. The president portrayed himself as protecting seniors, and claimed Congressman Paul Ryan’s plan would be cruel to seniors. The data show the opposite. Seniors and baby boomers will be better off under the Ryan

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