Pro-lifers are horrified at the announcement Monday that the Obama administration has approved a recommendation from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to guarantee full health insurance coverage for birth control, including the so-called “morning-after” pill, under the Affordable Care Act. (more)
When Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius visits Frager’s Hardware Store near the U.S. Capitol Monday, where she is expected to release the much-anticipated proposed regulations on the health insurance exchanges, she’ll face many skeptics. (more)
The federal government has a growing interest in the eating habits of Americans for the same reason it has an interest in tobacco consumption, said Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. (more)
States are desperate to find savings to get their budgets in balance. Medicaid spending has nearly doubled over the last decade, and for many it consumes the first or second biggest share of state expenditures, threatening education, public safety, and transportation programs. (more)
With the release of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) proposed 2012 budget, Washington is abuzz with support, attacks, praise and ridicule. Above it all, however, is the fiscal disaster that Ryan is trying to avoid with his proposal. As Ed Morrissey noted in a recent presentation at The Heritage Foundation, everyone in Washington knows that entitlements need fixing and fast — they simply choose to ignore it, or they did until Ryan’s budget came out. (more)
Do you remember your last birthday? What was it that you wished for? Did you get it? I ask because this week marks Obamacare’s first birthday! Birthdays are generally a cause for joy and celebration — but this birthday is an exception. (more)
President Obama’s government takeover of health care is just as unpopular now as it was upon being signed into law. Not surprisingly, his administration is playing defense in anticipation of a very lonely and historically hollow one-year anniversary. Instead of reasonably reassessing the shortcomings of the legislation, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius placed an op-ed last Monday outlandishly titled “Everyone prospers under health law.” Doubtless other glowing and grossly disconnected defenses will follow. The simple fact is, no amount of spin can disguise the plain truth: Obama’s 2,000-page leviathan was the wrong answer at the wrong time, and has created more problems than solutions. (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)
On the anniversary of President Barack Obama signing his prized health care overhaul legislation into law, The Daily Caller is providing a breakdown of what Obamacare provisions have already been instituted. The day Obamacare hit the books one year ago, 150 new regulations immediately went into effect. Since then, 125 more regulations have gone into effect. (more)
Top GOP health-care official Rep. Fred Upton is investigating the end-of-life counseling regulation Sarah Palin famously referred to as “death panels” — a rule that was stripped from the president’s health-care law following the controversy, but stealthily added back by administrative fiat. (more)
Although House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Fred Upton, Michigan Republican, is about to launch a congressional investigation into Obamacare waiver selection, the administration continues to approve waivers from health-care law for labor unions and others. In fact, since Upton first requested documentation from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in late January, the administration has issued 307 more Obamacare waivers, 47 of which for labor unions. That brings the total number of waivers to 1,040. Labor unions received 269 of those. (more)
During a hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) admitted to double-counting in the Obamacare budget. (more)
If liberals like Ezra Klein are right, yesterday’s olive branch “compromise” offer by President Obama on his controversial health care law won’t win any supporters among the law’s opponents, because, in so many words, it comes from Mr. Obama himself, and they don’t trust him enough to go for any “compromise” that he endorses. (more)
It is not news that Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry play hardball to achieve their goals politically. Indeed, playing hardball in politics is anticipated. Most do not bat an eye when things get rough — until a line is crossed. (more)
Bill Bennett engaged in a fine discussion of strategy on his radio talk show recently. Marc Thiessen, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, came on Bill’s Morning in America show to directly contradict the host. (more)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday in what will be the first showdown between the newly empowered House Republicans and the EPA chief over the agency’s regulatory powers. (more)
Top GOP health-care official Rep. Fred Upton is taking a close look at the Obama administration’s advertising blitz for Obamacare, giving the president two weeks to provide all documents related to the P.R. push that included spots by aging TV star Andy Griffith. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a striking statistic. (more)
Will the Department of Health and Human Services’ current “two-waiver-a-day” rule keep Obamacare away, effectively waivering the law obsolete? (more)
The National Institutes of Health recently announced that it would be engaging in a billion-dollar effort to encourage the development of new pharmaceutical therapies. The New York Times headline for this story sounded innocuous: “Federal Research Center Will Help Develop Medicines.” But not everyone is so sanguine about this effort. Fox News, for example, re-ran the Times story under the header: “Obama Creating Billion Dollar Gov’t-Run Drug Company.” (more)
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