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San Francisco first responders deserve our praise

By: Examiner readers 07/16/12 8:30 PM
We San Franciscans can be very proud of our firefighters and paramedics. Early Saturday evening, as I was preparing to listen to an outdoor concert at the Fillmore Center, an elderly man walked up slowly toward me and asked me to call an ambulance for him. In his slow and slurred speech, he said he was experiencing a stroke coming on, and that he was a past stroke victim. Noticing his distress and discerning his acute stroke symptoms, I called 911. Read More

High court gives Affordable Care Act healthy endorsement

By: Reuters 06/29/12 1:48 PM
The Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama’s health care law in an election-year triumph for him and fellow Democrats who championed the most sweeping overhaul since the 1960s of the unwieldy U.S. health care system. Read More

Obamacare: Treating the symptoms, ignoring the disease

By: Max Borders 09/22/10 12:00 AM
Our healthcare system has significant problems. No one - right or left - doubts that. Coverage and care are frankly just too expensive. On this we can all agree. But why? Cost, after all, is a merely a symptom of what ails American healthcare. The DiseasesThere are five major healthcare pathologies in this country: Read More

HHS Secretary – we will ‘reeducate’ you on ObamaCare

By: Bruce McQuain 08/31/10 12:00 AM
In an interview on Monday, the HHS Secretary Katherine Sebelious lamented, “Unfortunately, there still is a great deal of confusion about what is in [the reform law] and what isn’t.” She insisted that when the people learned what they would get from the new law, they’d more warmly embrace it. “We have a lot of reeducation to do”, she said. Read More

Max Baucus, author of Obamacare, admits he never read his own bill

By: Matthew Sheffield 08/24/10 12:00 AM
During the debate over what later became the health care bill that was recently signed into law by President Obama, a number of federal representatives and senators both admitted that they had not read it. Some, including Rep. Read More

Prosperity, economic mobility, and child poverty in America

By: E. D. Kain 07/06/10 12:00 AM
David Frum has an excellent, thought-provoking post on child poverty and economic mobility up at his site FrumForum. It does – and it should – make you question our assumptions about how we’ve set up our social spending programs for the poor as well as our faith in markets solving all our social problems. Read More

Tort reform and fee-for-service reform are two sides of the same coin

By: E. D. Kain 07/01/10 12:00 AM
Reihan Salam has a very good piece on why tort reform is necessary if we want to rein in out of control health costs. This bit jumped out at me: Read More

Dems admit CEOs were right to report losses from Obamacare

By: J.P. Freire 04/26/10 12:00 AM
Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee admitted that CEOs who reported billions in losses due to Obamacare were required to state those losses after all. What the Democrats didn’t admit, on the other hand, was that the companies were being incentivized to drop their insurance for employees. Read More

Five things we learned about Obamacare after it passed

By: Examiner Staff Writer 04/07/10 12:00 AM
“[We] have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., famously said that about President Barack Obama’s health care reform package. She was right. We are just finding out what was contained within that Obamacare law that Obama signed weeks ago.Here are five things we’ve learned so far: Read More

Get your free Barack Obama commemorative health care reform certificate today!

By: Examiner Staff Writer 03/29/10 12:00 AM
Organizing for America, the permanent Obama presidential campaign, is offering a free certificate to the “over one million supporters of reform that submitted their name [sic] as ‘co-signers’ of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.”  OFA says it is doing so to thank those who showed “the broad support that exists across the country for the health reform bill” that Obama signed into law. Read More

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