Tomorrow, the Senate will vote to open debate on its version of Obamacare, so it’s worth reviewing the huge amount of taxpayer funded bribery that has enabled this farce to continue. The American Medical Association, as I discuss here, will receive a bribe exceeding $200 billion. Not a bad take for a group that represents less [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece for AmSpec about the AMA’s cynical endorsement of Obamacare. Byron York (via GruntDoc) provides the latest chapter of this tawdry tale: Something unusual and largely unnoticed happened last week as Democrats pushed the national health care bill through the House. In a complicated, late-night maneuver, on a [...]
Harry Reid planned to pull a fast one on the American people today, but a funny thing happened on the way to cloture: Twelve Democrats and one independent joined all 40 Senate Republicans in defeating a motion by Reid to begin debate on the doctors fix bill on Wednesday. The “doctors fix” was really a $247 [...]