Category Archives: Healthcare
Video: Doubling The Healthcare Bill for Taxpayers
Watch this important new video from the Mercatus Center:
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ObamaCare By The Pictures
Obamacare in Pictures: Visualizing the Effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act View more presentations from The Heritage Foundation
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Who’s The Real Conservative? (Hint: It May Surprise Some)
In today’s Washington Examiner, Mona Charen tackles who the real conservative is in the race for the GOP’s presidential nomination. Her answer is interesting: it’s Mitt Romney. Charen’s argument, and it ends on this rather clever bit of analysis: So he’s for a free market reform of health care, cutting spending, tackling the soaring debt, [...]
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Why Unions Hurt The Middle Class
For decades we have been told that unions help the middle class. We have heard it from unions, from politicians that receive union contributions and from a sympathetic media. However, when one examines the facts this claim is completely false. How can an organization that represents a small minority the workforce, just over 10%, but [...]
Another Reason We Have Budget Problems
This chart should tell you plenty: Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal.
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America: Less Free Now
The Heritage Foundation has released its annual index of economic freedom and America has slipped to #10 in the world. The Foundation explains in a new video why economic freedom is so important: The project Economic Freedom also has used an incredibly popular video to make its case: And it released a sequel:
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Will Prosperity Be On The 2012 Ballot?
What we’re reading this morning, courtesy of David Nace: The events of the 1980s clearly demonstrate that the middle class benefits from government policies that promote prosperity rather than programs that promote dependency at the expense of prosperity. The real question going into to the 2012 election is whether middle-class voters will see through the [...]
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Today’s Best Reads
Fighting over “regulation,” taxes, and overall level of government intrusion into free enterprise can quickly get into jargon and it’s easy to forget that there are real consequences for real people. Today, Warren Stephens takes to the pages of the Wall Street Journal with a specific example of how one major piece of regulation-by-legislation is [...]
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HTA in TDC: “Big Labor is literally threatening businesses”
Everyone knows Big Labor looks out first and foremost for Big Labor Bosses, right? Well, you probably should. Case in point, the major setback for organized labor strategists who spent $30 million trying to unseat several Republican state legislators in Wisconsin whose only sin was voting for Gov. Scott Walker’s efforts to rein in spending [...]
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The Road We Really Traveled, President Obama