Commentary | Democrats Want the Government to Take Over Your Health Care
Mike Huckabee | Former Governor of Arkansas The nightmare of government-controlled health care will be closer to reality for the American people if the Democrats win in November. Imagine having to wait endless hours to see someone at an emergency room at a dirty, understaffed hospital that is as much a risk to your health […]
Trump Deals Another Blow To Obama’s Health Care Legacy
ROBERT DONACHIE, Capitol Hill and Health Care Reporter The Trump administration announced Saturday evening that it is temporarily freezing billions of dollars of payments to health insurance companies intended to help them manage higher-risk patients, sparking backlash from the industry’s lobbying arm as insurers continue to struggle to adjust to the administration’s repeated attacks on […]
Democratic candidates for California governor reveal positions on single-payer health care and education
by Chris Reed The 2018 governor’s race got off to an informal start last week with candidate forums in Anaheim and San Francisco. Former San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom leads all gubernatorial candidates in polling and fundraising. A September Berkeley IGS survey showed he had support from 26 percent of likely voters, followed by Republican businessman John Cox with 11 percent. […]
Commentary: I am Madder than Hell
. By Michael Greer I am so angry! I’M MADDER THAN HELL! We knew the Democrats were liars, but now there is no doubt Republicans are too. We were PROMISED for the last seven years, given the chance, they would REPEAL Obamacare. John McCain didn’t just betray his state, where premiums have increased 190%, but […]
L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise — It’s Socialism, Stupid!
. By L. Neil Smith Somewhere between 100 million and 200 million individuals died, in the 20th Century alone, owing to the myriad failures and atrocities of socialism. That’s in incidents _not_ connected with warfare. (which amounts to another couple of hundred million). Whole regional populations were deliberately starved to death because they refused to […]
The Second 100 Days (Trump Briefs: June 24-30 /Day 156-162) Week 23
By Michael Hernandez Saturday, June 24 (Day 156): President Trump goes on offensive on Russian election interference President Trump used Twitter to attack the Obama administration’s claims that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. He tweeted the following on Thursday: “…Why did Democratic National Committee turn down the DHS offer to protect against […]
Congress: The Swamp in The Mirror — Drain or Be Drained
By Mike Smith Every member of Congress is captive to his and her constituents. They are, to be blunt, never able to outrun their fear of the electorate. No lawmaker can go beyond the will of those who hired him or her without risking electoral firing by those same people. In other words, […]
‘Woefully incomplete’ universal health bill dead for the year in California
BY TARYN LUNA AND CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO [email protected] Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon put the brakes on a sweeping plan to overhaul the health care market in California Friday, calling the bill “woefully incomplete.” Rendon announced plans to park the bill to create a government-run universal health care system in Assembly Rules Committee “until further notice” and […]
The First 100 Days (Trump Briefs: March 18-24/Day 58-64) Week 9
By Michael Hernandez Saturday, March 18 (Day 58): U.S. and China will work together in confronting North Korea U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met in Bejing, China with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to put aside differences between the two nations in advance of a summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese President […]
Exclusive — Discussion About GOP Replacement to Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House Intensifies in White House, Congress
by MATTHEW BOYLE Republican officials in Congress and the White House are now openly discussing finding a GOP replacement to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as Speaker of the House, after Ryan failed to pass the American Health Care Act out of the House and misled the public and President Donald Trump when he promised repeatedly […]
