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  • Obama’s health plan – taxes, taxes everywhere | The Heritage Foundation | March 1, 2010

    The Administration’s recently released health care plan is rife with new taxes, according to a Heritage Foundation blog, “the President’s plan is no better than those of the House or Senate: massive new benefits paid for by a myriad of harmful new taxes. Better to drop this plan and start over. Without crushing new taxes.”

  • Sharp Division on Health Care Reform | Fox News | February 26, 2010

    A recent opinion survey shows Americans deeply divided over what Congress should do about health care reform. Fifty-nine percent of Americans say no deal at the summit means it’s time to start from scratch on health care reform, sometime in the future, whereas only 39 percent say the legislation should be enacted now, as is.

  • More Talk, No Deal at Health Summit | The Wall Street Journal | February 26, 2010

    The health care summit held on Thursday highlighted the year-long health care debate and the flaws in the legislation currently under consideration. A number of those in attendance insisted that it is “time to start over” with health care reform, the Wall Street Journal reports.

  • The aftermath of the health care summit: Confusion, conflict | Politico | February 26, 2010

    After the health care summit, members of Congress are still uncertain about the next steps for health care legislation. According to Politico, “the seven-hour session did little to change the underlying dynamics of the debate.”

  • Obama's new investment tax | The Wall Street Journal | February 25, 2010

    A Wall Street Journal editorial describes the Administration’s health care proposals as a “vast taxpayer-subsidized insurance entitlement” The plan’s 2.9% Medicare payroll tax would be expanded to cover interest, dividends, annuities and other income, which the Journal says “muddies up both the tax code and Medicare financing.”

  • Health bill faces hurdles in House | The Wall Street Journal | February 25, 2010

    According to The Wall Street Journal, the White House health care proposal does not draw strong support from moderate Democrats, due to the lack of public support for the reforms as well as the issue of using the legislative trick of reconciliation.

  • A cautionary tale in health care reform | The Los Angeles Times | February 22, 2010

    Over 20 years ago, New York passed a law requiring insurers to accept all applicants, even those with preexisting conditions. The Los Angeles Times reports that premiums in that state are the highest in the nation. If members of Congress took a look at New York’s situation, then they would see how the mandate currently being debated in the health care legislation could make costs escalate dramatically.

  • Obama Summit Raises Stakes in Health-Care Roulette | The Wall Street Journal | February 22, 2010

    As the health care summit approaches, Congress says a bipartisan agreement is unlikely, “with Republicans demanding the White House start from scratch and Democrats saying they won't,” a Wall Street Journal editorial says.

  • Sen. Ben Nelson unsure if healthcare reform efforts will have 'happy ending' | The Hill | February 22, 2010

    According to The Hill, Senator Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) is “unsure if there is a happy ending for health care.” Nelson’s skepticism reflects the uncertainty that Democrats will be able to gain the votes to finish health care reform after more than a year of work on the issue.

  • Healthcare reform and reconciliation a bad mix, ex-parliamentarian says | The Hill | February 17, 2010

    The Senate's former parliamentarian, Robert Dove, says the budget reconciliation process, with its incomprehensible rules, is not suitable for healthcare reform. “This process is not designed to do a lot of policy making and it would be very difficult to achieve a number of things that people want to achieve" in the healthcare reform legislation, Dove said. "This could be a very long, exhausting process."