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Sullivan challenges constitutionality of Obamacare insurance mandate

Oklahoma 1st District Congressman John Sullivan has introduced a resolution (H. Res. 1063) targeting the individual health insurance mandate, one of the components of the Democratic Party health insurance proposal that passed the U. S. Senate in December, according to a news release on Sullivan's House website, issued today: "My...

Posted by Michael Bates on February 3, 2010 5:33 PM

"You vote Obamacare, we'll vote you outta there."

Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Ray Stevens, whose work spans a half century and ranges from the sublime to the ridiculous, has a topical new song with a straightforward message for our representatives in Washington:...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 30, 2009 6:17 PM

Health care "reform": $2.5 trillion in the first 10 years

Why on earth does anyone, left-wing or right-wing, think this is a good idea? In its real first 10 years (2014 to 2023), the CBO says that the bill would cost $1.8 trillion -- for insurance coverage expansions alone. Other parts of the bill would cost approximately $700 billion more,...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 19, 2009 7:45 PM

Health care takeover: "You have turned this place into the DMV"

A humorous illustration of the one-size-slow-go-rationed health care plan being proposed by Barack Obama and the Democrats: (Via Chris Medlock.)...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 23, 2009 5:56 PM

Greater health care freedom, coverage

I was sitting down in the Media Filing Center to begin to clear out some of by back blog, but as I sat down a convention staffer brought by Texas Congressman Michael Burgess. Burgess was here to talk about health care policy. He is an obstetrician and gynecologist, and in...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 4, 2008 5:19 PM