Investigators for the House Energy and Commerce Committee have discovered that a little-known provision in the national health care law has allowed the federal government to pay nearly $2 billion to unions, state public employee systems, and big corporations to subsidize health coverage costs for early retirees.  At the current rate of payment, the $5 billion appropriated for the program could... 

Unable to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law, Republicans are trying to oust the official who is quarterbacking the overhaul of the nation’s medical system. In a letter released Thursday, 42 Republican senators asked the president to withdraw the nomination of Dr. Donald Berwick as Medicare administrator, saying his experience isn’t broad enough and past statements... 

President Barack Obama has renominated Donald M. Berwick to be Medicare chief six months after bypassing the Senate and installing him in the job in a recess appointment, the White House announced Wednesday. Obama initially nominated Berwick last April. After the recess appointment in July, Berwick could serve through this year without Senate confirmation. Berwick has wide support in the medical community... 

By Charles Krauthammer Suppose someone — say, the president of the United States — proposed the following: We are drowning in debt. More than $14 trillion right now. I’ve got a great idea for deficit reduction. It will yield savings of $230 billion over the next 10 years: We increase spending by $540 billion while we increase taxes by $770 billion. He’d be laughed out of town. And yet,... 

While Chinese President Hu Jintao is being entertained by U.S. President Barack Obama, and the U.S. House of Representatives votes to repeal the Obama administration’s healthcare reform law, both U.S. healthcare and Sino-American relations are the main components today of a less highly publicized event. The U.S. Trade and Development Agency, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services... 

From American Spectator The Congressional Budget Office, in an email to Capitol Hill staffers obtained by the Spectator, has said that repealing the national health care law would reduce net spending by $540 billion in the ten year period from 2012 through 2021. That number represents the cost of the new provisions, minus Medicare cuts. Repealing the bill would also eliminate $770 billion in taxes.... 

via The Right Scoop: Chairman of the Budget Committee Paul Ryan called in to Mark Levin’s radio show to clarify that there is no way that repealing ObamaCare will add to the deficit. And it’s because of all the gimmicks within the legislation to manipulate the CBO into scoring it as a deficit reducer. But Ryan gives a short summary of what the gimmicks are and why the outcome will actually be... 

From Speaker Boehner’s Blog: Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH), Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), and several House committee chairmen today released a report entitled ObamaCare: A Budget-Busting, Job-Killing Health Care Law. You can view the report right here: ObamaCare: A Budget-Busting, Job-Killing Health Care Law via Speaker Blog | Speaker of the House John Boehner | speaker.gov.  Read More →

The Tea Party movement is not a party and in theory it does not have a candidate. Yet it has had more impact than the official Republican Party From the UK Daily Mail… Populism is an important part of the American political tradition, in a way it has not been in England since the mid-19th Century, with the Chartist demand for a more democratic constitution. The Tea Party movement, which has... 

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