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Here’s more confirmation of the economic damage Romneycare did in the Bay State. The Boston Herald has the exclusive results of an analysis by Suffolk University’s Beacon Hill Institute. Romney’s baggage. It is so heavy: The Bay State’s controversial 2006 universal health-care plan — also known as “Romneycare” — has cost Massachusetts more than 18,000 [...]

House call to the Supreme Court inevitable

A month ago, I was “fringe” for spotlighting Rick Perry’s Gardasil problem. As I said then, it’s not just a “single-issue,” one-off problem. It’s about his instincts, judgment, non-apology apology, and ethics. For everyone still catching up, here’s my column from a month ago. Now, Gardasil is the search word of the day. And there’s [...]

If you subscribe to my Twitter feed, you’ve already seen all my fast and furious live-tweeting of tonight’s GOP debate in Tampa. Go here and scroll down for the whole tweet-fest. Speaking of Fast and Furious, it was once again skipped as a debate question — as were any major Obama scandals (Solyndra, Interior Department [...]

In July, I compiled for you a handy catalog of Obamacare fables disseminated by the Left. Nationalized health care activists use the growing list of sob stories — see here for the refresher course — as evidence of free-market failures. Hysterical media outlets hype the claims uncritically, when a simple, quick phone call and basic [...]

The California legislature is quietly pushing forward with a sweeping proposal to mandate that Gardasil — the vaccine marketed as a shield against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) — can be dispensed by the state to children as young as 12 without the permission of their parents. I confirmed by phone on Friday with [...]

Scroll for updates… Governor Gardasil, R-Merck. Beltway types are obsessing over GOP Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign trail comments about the Fed and Ben Bernanke. Blah x 3. I’m far less aggravated by Gov. Perry’s injudicious toss-off remarks than I am by his profoundly troubling, liberty-curtailing actions in office and his fresh batch of specious [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Optional headline: Obamacare downgraded; Tea Party blamed The stampede to the health care law ending up in the lap of the Supreme Court rambles on: The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that the health care reform law’s requirement that nearly all Americans buy insurance is unconstitutional, a striking [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Well, it’s not a formal downgrade, but there is certainly a growing sense that the federal government may eventually collapse under its own weight, and continued dependence could be hazardous to your state’s health: Kansas will return a $31.5 million grant to the federal government that aimed to help the state [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Because of Michelle Obama’s Shake Shack order last Monday, among other food stops, more people are buying burgers, fries and milk shakes. FLOTUS visits are mini-stimulus for restaurants — except these stimulus actually seem to work. Washington Post: Obama Foodarama is reporting that Shake Shack and Eatonville are reporting a “Michelle [...]

Last week, I published The Ever-Expanding Catalogue of Obamacare Fables. This week, MRCTV and BreitbartTV bring you an excellent and handy video of Obama’s favorite health care takeover tall tales in his own words. All it needs is an “Unhappily Ever After” end page. Watch:

Congratulations to the 39 new recipients of coveted Obamacare waivers! The latest batch was disclosed yesterday on the HHS/CMS website: Updated July 15, 2011 As of the end of June 2011, a total of 1,471 one-year waivers have been granted. This update includes 39 new approvals. The number of enrollees in plans with annual limits [...]

The expanding catalogue of Obamacare fables by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 Is there a health insurance horror story disseminated by the White House and its allies that ever turned out to be true? Obamacare advocates have exercised more artistic license than a convention of Photoshoppers. Now, a prominent sob story shilled by President [...]

Today, the House held a second hearing on the rogue board of Medicare spending czars created by Obamacare. This mother of all death panels is known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). My column looks at growing Democrat opposition to the entity, which would have unprecedented authority over health care spending. Seven Dems are [...]

Still in London until the end of the week. The papers here have been chock full of NHS horror stories and health care cautionary tales as the British health care system marks its 63rd birthday. Meet some of the victims of nationalized health care ignored by Obamacare fantasizers stateside: – Neglected elderly patients. Health service [...]

**Written by Doug Powers On Monday we talked about the HHS plan to employ “mystery shoppers” to pose as patients looking for primary care doctors to help determine which doctors turn away patients with government health plans that pay lower reimbursement rates. Somehow this was supposed to help solve a doctor shortage, because in DC, [...]

Selling point?

“Yes, that’s my car outside with a Republican bumper sticker. Why do you ask?”

New warning labels

Well, well, well. How’s this for a weekend news dump? The White House is waving goodbye to Obamacare waivers. The announcement comes as questions about the legality of the HHS program are swelling and challenges to the process persist. The Overlords of Transparency always have impeccable timing. Also: Indefatigable denial. Deny, deny, deny: Removing a [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Tomorrow is the GOP debate in New Hampshire, and GOP candidate Tim Pawlenty was on Fox News Sunday this morning using a word I’m guessing we’ll hear again Monday — Obamneycare: Speaking of the debate, Newt Gingrich might show up a little late — he was taking a limo to catch [...]

No, this is not about Anthony Weiner. It’s about how state and federal tax dollars are poured down a rat hole and used to subsidize violent thugs and menaces in New York state’s health care system for children with developmental disabilities. Read the whole thing here. Pure horror. O. D. Heck is one of nine [...]

Photoshop credit: Rachael in Kentucky, via our Obamacare photoshop contest 2009 Propaganda: “No one is going to lose their coverage.” – Obama administration, November 2010 Reality: Firms to cut health plans as reform starts: survey; 30% of companies say they’ll stop offering coverage – MarketWatch, June 2011 Once provisions of the Affordable Care Act start [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Don’t like the individual mandate in Obamacare and can’t get a waiver? No problem — just be poor. Philip Klein at the Washington Examiner: President Obama’s solicitor general, defending the national health care law on Wednesday, told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn’t like the individual mandate could always [...]

I’ve had my doubts about GOP Rep. Paul Ryan’s commitment to fiscal conservatism in the past, but his mettle is being tested and this is his moment. Beltway Republicans are going wobbly in the wake of the GOP’s NY-26 loss — seen as a referendum on the Ryan Medicare overhaul plan. William Jacobson at Legal [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Okay, he didn’t quite put it that way, but that’s how I heard it: The 48-year-old, red-haired mascot has come under fire from health-care professionals and consumer groups who, in recent days, have asked the fast-food chain to retire Ronald McDonald. But McDonald’s Chief Executive Officer Jim Skinner staunchly defended the [...]

Doug Powers called it on November 5, 2010: AARP, either in blind faith or full complicity, bet on door #1 and their employees (not to mention almost everybody else) get to pay the price: WASHINGTON – AARP’s endorsement helped secure passage of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Now the seniors’ lobby is telling its [...]

Matthew Boyle at TheDC continues hammering at the murky Obamacare waiver process. Not surprisingly, HHS won’t return his calls. Read the whole thing: 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 [...]

Murder, they wrote

Today’s column shines more light on the latest outbreak of waiver-mania. Take note below of another West Coast liberal company on the golden ticket list — REI. The San Francisco Business News follows up on reporting by Jamie Dupree of Cox Media Group and Matthew Boyle of The Daily Caller and attempts to rationalize the [...]