by Jane Richey | Mar 15, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The CBO has extended its cost estimates for President Obama’s health care law out to 2022, taking in more years of full implementation, and showing that the bill is substantially more expensive — twice as much as the original $900 billion price tag. The...
by Jane Richey | Mar 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
In a commentary published Sunday in Politico, Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius defended Obamacare’s individual mandate that says people must buy health insurance, stating, “Congress carefully weighed its authority in writing the law.”...
by Jane Richey | Mar 11, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
A state Senate panel approved a proposal this morning that would make the federal health care law and its requirement that all residents purchase health insurance illegal in Pennsylvania.That measure, introduced by Senate President Pro Tem Joe Scarnati, R-Jefferson,...
by Jane Richey | Mar 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The Obama administration is about to carry out a major provision of the new health care law by issuing standards for health insurance exchanges, the markets where consumers and small businesses will be able to buy coverage from competing private plans. To encourage...
by Jane Richey | Mar 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted February 20-21, shows that 72 percent of Americans believe the individual mandate — requiring every American to purchase health insurance or pay a fine — is unconstitutional. That includes 56 percent of Democrats and 54...
