Sebelius Spends Your Taxes On Community Organizations

kathleen-sebelius Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius was criticized last week for soliciting private contributions to Enroll America, a non-governmental organization run by former Obama campaign operatives. The real monkey business is what the secretary is doing with taxpayers’ money — pouring it into community organizations. The pretext is that community organizations will do [...] Continue Reading

Congress to Consider National Anti-Infanticide Bill

800px-US_Congress_02 Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona announced Friday afternoon that he will introduce a bill that would ban abortions after the fifth month of pregnancy (20 weeks after conception) nationwide–with exceptions for when the life or physical health of the mother is at risk. Why 20 weeks? Franks’s bill points out that the child in utero is very developed at [...] Continue Reading

HHS:’Telework’ Gives Gov’t Employees More Time for ‘Planning and Preparing Healthy Meals’

6716241159_23a5786ab4_m The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says it wants as many as 20 percent of its workers to “telework,” use an “alternative work schedule,” or do both, in order to “reduce green house gas emissions,” decrease “employee stress,” and give these government workers more time for “planning and preparing healthy meals.” So says [...] Continue Reading

Four Possible Obamacare Futures

obamacare On Thursday, House Republicans once again voted to repeal President Obama’s health care law. I don’t think it’ll be a major spoiler to predict that the repeal bill won’t go any further. But I do think the vote is a good opportunity to reflect on the future of Obamacare, which I divide into four possible [...] Continue Reading

Study: Romneycare Didn’t Increase Hospital Costs

widemodern_romneycare_051613620x413 According to a new analysis, health care reform in Massachusetts, popularly known as “Romneycare,” didn’t cause hospital use or costs to increase, even as it drove down the number of people without health insurance. Implemented by the state in 2006, and signed by then-Gov. Mitt Romney, the reform is looked at as a model for [...] Continue Reading

IRS Official Involved in Targeting Scandal Now Overseeing Obamacare Unit

gty_internal_revenue_service_building_ll_130412_wblog The Internal Revenue Service official charged with overseeing tax-exempt organizations when conservative groups were targeted for extra scrutiny now runs the agency’s office responsible for implementing Obamacare. Sarah Hall Ingram was commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations from 2009 to 2012, ABC News reports. Ingram, however, is now director of the IRS’ Affordable [...] Continue Reading

House Votes, Again, to Repeal Obamacare

John Boehner Holds Weekly Press Briefing At The Capitol The Republican-controlled House voted Thursday to repeal the Affordable Care Act in its entirety. With implementation of Obamacare set to begin later this year, the vote is largely symbolic. The Senate is highly unlikely to even take up a vote on repeal. The House voted for repeal 229-195, with votes cast almost entirely down party [...] Continue Reading