The Competent Conservative

I’ve noticed a disturbing pattern over the past few weeks of Obama’s propaganda onslaught to change healthcare delivery in America.    Physicians are increasingly portrayed as greedy, inept, inefficient operators who would function better under a system of government control.    Here’s the latest salvo in Obama’s ongoing campaign – AP: In trying to rally support for health care overhaul, [...]

By: Barbara Hollingsworth Local Opinion Editor 07/22/09 5:10 PM EDT Every month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes six “measures of labor underutilization” (i.e. unemployment). The official unemployment rate used by politicians and the media, referred to as U3, measures the percent of the civilian labor force that is out of work. (http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/print.pl/lau/stalt.htm) [...]

By Michael Tanner In making his case for a government takeover of the US health-care system, President Obama is going far beyond the usual Washington truth-stretching. Take a look at just a few of the most common claims: “If you like your current health-care plan, you can keep it.” Even White House spokesmen have said [...]

By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY Congress: It didn’t take long to run into an “uh-oh” moment when reading the House’s “health care for all Americans” bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal. When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought [...]