By Kevin Hassett One of the more illuminating remarks during the health-care debate in Congress came when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told an audience that Democrats would “pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it, away from the fog of controversy.” That remark captured the truth that, while many Americans have a vague sense that something bad is happening to their health care, few if any... 

By JONATHAN WEISMAN President Barack Obama, after a year of fitfully searching for compromise, is taking a more aggressive tack with his Republican adversaries, hoping to energize Democratic voters and possibly muscle in some Republican support in Congress. On Thursday, Mr. Obama will be in Maine, home state of two moderate Republican senators who opposed his health-care plan, to promote the health... 

It perhaps was not the endorsement President Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress were looking for. Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro on Thursday declared passage of American health care reform “a miracle” and a major victory for Obama’s presidency, but couldn’t help chide the United States for taking so long to enact what communist Cuba achieved decades ago. “We... 

By David Hogberg There are currently 60 to 65 physician-owned hospitals under construction. Those that aren’t finished and don’t have a Medicare provider number by Aug. 1 (Dec. 31 if the reconciliation bill passes) will probably never open their doors. Without a provider number, such hospitals can’t treat Medicare patients, which are usually essential to financial survival. The feud... 

By Fred Lucas President Barack Obama smiles in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 23, 2010, during the signing ceremony for the health care bill. As many as a dozen taxes in the new health care law violate President Barack Obama’s campaign pledge not to raise taxes on families earning less than $250,000 and on individuals earning less than $200,000. At least seven of... 

Just before the House of Representatives passed sweeping health care legislation last Sunday, 41% of voters nationwide favored the legislation while 54% were opposed. Now that President Obama has signed the legislation into law, most voters want to see it repealed. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey, conducted on the first two nights after the president signed the bill, shows that... 

By Newt Gingrich This will not stand. No one should be confused about the outcome of Sunday’s vote This is not the end of the fight it is the beginning of the fight. The American people spoke decisively against a big government, high tax, Washington knows best, pro trial lawyer centralized bureaucratic health system In every recent poll the vast majority of Americans opposed this monstrosity Speaker... 

By Mitt Romney America has just witnessed an unconscionable abuse of power. President Obama has betrayed his oath to the nation — rather than bringing us together, ushering in a new kind of politics, and rising above raw partisanship, he has succumbed to the lowest denominator of incumbent power: justifying the means by extolling the ends. He promised better; we deserved better. He calls his accomplishment... 

President Obama last night hailed Congress for answering “the call of history” — minutes after the House gave final passage to his landmark health-care plan by a super-close 219-212 vote. “This is what change looks like,” Obama declared in televised remarks from the White House only weeks after some had called reform all but dead. “We didn’t give in to mistrust... 

Today’s the day that the House of Representatives votes (or doesn’t vote) on ObamaCare — a radical scheme that incorporates the most drastic changes in US health-care delivery in more than four decades. And it may well, in the long run, saddle the American economy with so much debt that it will make today’s troubled times look like the days of wine and roses. Next up: sharply higher taxes,... 

By Jed Skillman Democrats have painted themselves into an ugly corner with their Health Care Reform Bill. (HCR) The Obama Administration has managed to take what has been a standard Democratic vote-getting ploy — promise government largesse to core constituencies and let the rest of the country pay for it — and screw it up so badly that regardless of whether HCR passes or fails Democrats...