Dick Morris from Creators Syndicate

Rebutting Obama's Health Care Speech for 09/16/2009

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

In his hour-long speech on health care, Barack Obama failed to spend even a moment rebutting the central critique of his program: His inability to provide quality medical care for 30 million new patients without any additional doctors or nurses.

The shortage of medical personnel that will inevitably accompany the expansion of the patient population will leave some element — and per ...

Updated: Wed Sep 16, 2009

Obama's Headwind on Health Care for 09/19/2009

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The ups and downs of the published polls about Obama's health care proposals dramatically illustrate the ferocity of the headwinds he faces as he desperately tries to sell his program to a suspicious and wary public.

Before Obama addressed the nation and a joint session of Congress, his proposals drew only 45 percent approval (Rasmussen). But after he spoke, support for his health care p ...

Updated: Sat Sep 19, 2009

Obama's Health Tax -- on the Middle Class for 09/21/2009

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The elderly were the first group to turn against Obama's health care proposals, alienated by the huge $500 billion cut in Medicare in his plan. Now the young and the uninsured may be the next demographic group to jump ship, concerned about the huge premiums they will be required to pay for health insurance.

The requirement that everybody buy health insurance will impose a massive tax on ...

Updated: Mon Sep 21, 2009

Obamacare: Taxes for Everyone for 09/23/2009

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Now that the various health care plans are being reduced to print, the financial details are emerging and with them a fundamental conclusion is becoming evident: The Obama plan is a giant tax increase for much of the American people (not just the rich).

Start with the mandate that falls on those whose welfare is the supposed object of the entire program — the uninsured. According t ...

Updated: Wed Sep 23, 2009

Surrendering U.S. Sovereignty at G-20 Summit for 09/30/2009

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

While all eyes were on the rantings of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the United Nations, the United States — under President Obama — was surrendering its economic sovereignty at the G-20 summit.

The result of this conclave, which France's president Nicolas Sarkozy hailed as "revolutionary," was that all the nations agreed to coordinate their economic policies and programs ...

Updated: Wed Sep 30, 2009

Obamacare: Cut the Elderly and Give to AARP for 10/03/2009

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Among the $500 billion in Medicare cuts that will provide the bulk of the financing for Obama's health care plan is a $160 billion to $180 billion cut in the Medicare Advantage program, which offers a range of benefits not available to beneficiaries under basic Medicare.

Medicare Advantage should be Obama's favorite program. It combines all the elements he likes — premiums are subs ...

Updated: Sat Oct 03, 2009

Good News for Terrorists: Democratic Revisions to the PATRIOT Act for 10/06/2009

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

If only terrorists would be so accommodating as not to change cell phones, the new curbs on the Patriot Act being pushed by Democrats in Congress would not be so dangerous. But, unfortunately, even a book titled "Terrorism for Dummies" would tell them to use multiple cell phones to plot their mayhem.

In the aftermath of Oklahoma City, President Clinton asked Congress for author ...

Updated: Tue Oct 06, 2009

Snowe and Lincoln Will Determine Everything for 10/07/2009

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Watch how Maine Republican Olympia Snowe and Arkansas Democrat Blanche Lincoln vote in the Senate Finance Committee on the Baucus version of the Obama health care plan. As Snowe and Lincoln go, so will the Congress.

The Democrats need Snowe's vote desperately to convince wavering moderate Democrats that they can offer a veneer, however thin, of bipartisanship to the health proposal. If S ...

Updated: Wed Oct 07, 2009

The Nobel Prize to Obama: Europe's Bid to Re-Colonize America for 10/10/2009

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Whether it was rewarding Jimmy Carter for criticizing the Iraq War or supporting Al Gore in his crusade against global warming, the Norwegian Parliament — which chooses the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize — has sought to use the award as a political tool to influence American politics. Its prestige and moral power make the prize a potent weapon with which to help steer the directio ...

Updated: Sat Oct 10, 2009

Obamacare Means $1,700 More in Insurance Premiums for a Typical Family for 10/14/2009

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Will a young, healthy, childless individual or couple buy health insurance costing 7.5 percent of their income as required by Obama's health legislation? Not until they get sick. Then, they can always buy the insurance — and the Obama bill requires the insurance companies to give it to them. And, if the premiums come to more than 7.5 percent of their income because they are now sick, no p ...

Updated: Wed Oct 14, 2009

How Much Obamacare Costs the Average Family for 10/19/2009

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Whether or not you now have health insurance, Obama's health care bill will cost you dearly.

If you don't have insurance, you will be required to buy it. The legislation specifies how much you will have to pay for the coverage before any subsidy kicks in. All during the campaign, Obama kept speaking about affordable coverage. Now it appears that his definition of “affordable” might be a ...

Updated: Mon Oct 19, 2009

Iran Cons Hillary for 10/21/2009

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has fallen for Iran's line that it is not developing nuclear weapons, but only wants the ability to develop one to achieve its place in the sun among the great nations of the earth.

In an interview on a Sunday show and in a leak in The New York Times that seems to have come from her (since it uses the same language), she notes that "there's a small ...

Updated: Wed Oct 21, 2009

Obama Taxes Pacemakers, Heart Valves for 10/24/2009

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The more fiscal details of the health care bills emerge, the more appalling they seem. The Senate Finance Committee bill includes a broad provision taxing all manner of medical devices. This tax includes such frivolous luxuries as pacemakers, stents, artificial heart valves, defibrillators, automated wheelchairs, mechanized artificial limbs, replacement hips and knees, surgical gurneys, laparos ...

Updated: Sat Oct 24, 2009

Reid's Bait and Switch Tactics for 10/28/2009

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Harry Reid had two problems. How would he get the health care bill out of the Senate Finance Committee without revealing the glaring potential fissures in his party over the public option on health care? And, how could he lend a veneer of bipartisanship to a one-party bill?

He couldn't allow a vote on final passage out of the committee with a public option in the bill because he knew tha ...

Updated: Wed Oct 28, 2009

Flu Shot Shortage Shows Government Incompetence for 10/31/2009

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

How can the government pretend that it can manage, overhaul, streamline and reform the health care system in the United States when it can't even deliver enough flu shots to prevent a pandemic?

We have seen the H1N1 virus coming for over a year. It is no surprise that much of America needs vaccination. It was no secret that the flu season was approaching. But, now that it is upon us, we ...

Updated: Sat Oct 31, 2009

The Health Care Disaster in Canada for 11/04/2009

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

After more than a decade of public health care with mandatory coverage, so many Canadian doctors have left the practice and so many young people have entered other fields that Canada ranks 26th of 28 developed nations in its ratio of physicians to population. Once, Canada ranked among the leaders in the number of physicians — but that was before government health care drove doctors out of ...

Updated: Wed Nov 04, 2009

Obamacare Endorsements: What the Bribe Was for 11/07/2009

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

As the suicidal Democratic congressmen proceed to rubber-stamp the Obama health care reform despite the drubbing their party took in the '09 elections, the president trotted out the endorsements of the AMA and the AARP to stimulate support. But these — and the other endorsements — his package has received are all bought and paid for. Here are the deals:

— The American M ...

Updated: Sat Nov 07, 2009

The Myth of the Moderate Democrat for 11/11/2009

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Don't assume that the 38 Democrats who voted against Nancy Pelosi's extremist version of health care reform wouldn't have supported it if their votes had been needed. The days before the final passage on Saturday were not filled with stirring appeals to get Democrats to back the bill so much as an auction to decide whom to let off the hook.

Knowing that the bill will likely be political ...

Updated: Wed Nov 11, 2009

Painting a Bull's Eye on New York City for 11/14/2009

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

President Obama's decision to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on trial in New York City along with four others accused of helping destroy the World Trade Center and attack the Pentagon on 9-11 paints a bull's-eye for terrorists right on New York City, their favorite target. Now Obama has identified where the terrorists should focus their energies — on New York City.

His decision to bow ...

Updated: Sat Nov 14, 2009

Obama's Health Care Plan Not Out of the Woods Yet for 11/18/2009

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Joseph Stubbs, President of the American College of Physicians — the second largest doctors' group in the country — confirms that "the supply of doctors just won't be there" for the 30 million new patients Barack Obama wants to cover. Noting that the doctor shortage is "already a catastrophic crisis," Stubbs said that underserved areas in the U.S. currently need ...

Updated: Wed Nov 18, 2009