“Health care reform in the United States” on The Daily Caller

It seems President Barack Obama — who spoke often during the debate over health care reform of his mother and her fight to become insured — may have misspoken. (more)

Tim Pawlenty took to Twitter Thursday to do damage control on his roundly criticized debate performance and attack the health care program Mitt Romney instituted as governor of Massachusetts. (more)

Amidst the news that 38 of the 204 Obamacare waivers approved in April went to posh entertainment venues in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s district, new questions about the Obama administration’s transparency pledge have arisen. (more)

Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney is going on the offensive on health care, penning a USA Today op-ed Wednesday ahead of key health care speech Thursday. (more)

Missouri Attorney General, Chris Koster, a Democrat, is siding against the President’s proposed health care reform package. Koster filed an amicus brief Monday in a multi state lawsuit supporting the 26 Republican state attorneys general and governors who filed it. The lawsuit challenges a provision of the Obama’s law that requires individuals to pay a $695 yearly penalty if they do not purchase health insurance. Koster switched from the GOP to the Democratic Party in 2007 when he was a state senator and was elected attorney general in 2008. (more)

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the passage of President Obama’s job-killing health care bill, but Americans are still waiting for something about this bill to celebrate. Last year, Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats heralded the 2,000-page bill as the solution for decreasing health care costs, creating jobs and reducing our deficit. They chose to ignore the concerns and opposition of the American people and rammed Obamacare through Congress without a single Republican vote, claiming we had to “pass the bill to find out what was in the bill.” (more)

It’s now entirely clear why Nancy Pelosi said we had to pass Obamacare to know what it contained. This week marks the law’s one-year anniversary, and what we’ve learned is not good. If this had happened in the private sector, someone would be facing charges for false advertising. (more)

Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz asks that the Obama administration reconsider its position on health care reform in an interview published Tuesday by The Seattle Times. (more)

I wear with pride my bruises and scars from the fight against passage of Obamacare in the U.S. House. In 2009, I was the ranking Republican on the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, and I was the first congressman to say on the floor that the individual mandate was unconstitutional. (more)

“Hey, look over there! There are some really expensive programs over there!” Mike Kinsley criticizes one of the most annoying liberal arguments against cutting the fat in government–the Willie Sutton argument, or “Why bother to cut the fat in these agencies and programs when the really big budget busters are entitlements like Medicare and Social Security”: (more)

The federal government filed a formal appeal on Tuesday of a Florida judge’s ruling that the entire health care reform law is unconstitutional. (more)

Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) are collaborating on legislation to require the federal government to make public how much it pays doctors who participate in Medicare, a Senate staffer said. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — How many federal bureaucrats does it take to carry out President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul? Don’t expect to find an easy answer in his new budget. (more)

On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson in Florida ruled the ObamaCare health insurance mandate unconstitutional.  And although this law will still have to be heard by other courts, what if eventually the Supreme Court of the United States finds the law constitutional, as many Democrats would prefer? (more)

This week, the president delivered his State of the Union address to Congress. The president talked at length about several investments that we must make in our country, and I agree that we should look for common ground where investments are needed. Unfortunately, we did not hear him talk about areas where we can afford to make due with less right now, and that’s where this Congress has its work cut out. We must push the president to create a more fiscally responsible budget. (more)

The government’s chief actuary for Medicare spending on Wednesday said he had more confidence that Republican Paul Ryan’s plan to reform entitlements would drive down health-care costs than President Obama’s recently passed overhaul. (more)

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched a satellite into space. Therefore, taxpayers should give more money to politically favored corporations. This is not a rigorous line of thought. But it was typical of yesterday’s State of the Union address. (more)

I’m sure that many of you have driven a car for so many years that eventually the engine gives out. You can put in a new muffler or a new radiator. You can replace the transmission and put on a new coat of paint. But if the engine has failed, then that car won’t run again until you put in a new engine. (more)

As political poisons go, few are more toxic with the American voter than the government takeover of health care. On Election Day 2010, voters sent an undeniable message for new leadership in Congress to repeal the job-destroying health care law and focus on the people’s priorities of creating jobs and cutting spending. (more)

He’s not going to be giving the keynote speech at a Tea Party convention anytime soon. But he did go to bat for the Republican Party at a time when a lot of media personalities are calling for lower-volume political discourse. (more)