With childhood obesity rates soaring, conservatives should welcome the opportunity to work with Michelle Obama on her Let’s Move campaign and help promote more responsible health choices.  more

The White House has pushed sweeping new measures in hopes of controlling rising future health costs. But government control doesn’t always lead to cost control.  more

White House officials insist that Obamacare is very much alive. Their actions suggest otherwise.  more

Going into the health summit next week, the White House is in a weak position. That gives them only two options: Try to pick up Republican support on a compromise bill or continue to push Obamacare in hopes of winning public support.  more

Obamacare was lost the moment that the Democrats managed to lose even Massachusetts. Democrats are still in a state of shock. They shouldn’t be. They spent 2009 crafting bad legislation.  more

After last night’s stunning defeat, the Obama White House is likely to blame others first, and ask hard questions later. But in the coming weeks, someone close to the President will pay dearly.  more

The voters of Massachusetts are deciding more than simply who will represent them in Washington, they may well be deciding the fate of the Democrats’ health reform plans.  more

Will the Bay State up-end politics the way Pennsylvania did in 1991, sending Washington a strong message on health care? And why has Massachusetts turned on ObamaCare?   more

Medical malpractice reform is popular and needed – and, despite stretching for more than 2,000 pages, basically absent from Senator Reid’s bill.  more

The Democrats gambled big and look likely to pass the most sweeping healthcare legislation in more than four decades. But, in terms of policy, the victory is not quite so complete.  more

White House officials are pushing hard for health reform by arguing that health costs are unsustainable and need to be controlled. But Obamacare won’t address this problem. Rather, it would hamper a system already plagued by subsidies and regulations with more of the same.  more

It’s that time of year again: Washington is talking about cuts to Medicare. As a psychiatrist, I’ll break the bad news gently: Medicare cuts are like Santa Claus and his flying reindeer – often talked about, never actually seen.  more

ClintonCare sat at 1,342 pages. The Reid bill is 2,070 pages, pre-amendments. Democratic leaders have put together increasingly long bills, packed with regulations and pork.   more

The problem with President Obama’s health proposals rests in their very ideological underpinning: that only with a new, massive role for the federal government will we better American healthcare.  more

Americans today pay just 13 cents directly for every health dollar spent. It’s one reason that health costs continue to rise, but the value doesn’t necessarily increase. We are, after all, always ready to spend – spend, that is, someone else’s money.  more

The House health reform bill is about more than covering the nation’s uninsured. Rather, it’s about remaking the nation’s health care system.  more

On Saturday, shortly before passing HR 3962, the health-reform bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi commented that Democrats are walking “where giants have walked” in completing major legislation.  more

Senator Reid suggested on Tuesday that the Senate may not pass healthcare legislation this year. If the Senate can’t pass legislation before Christmas it seems unlikely that the sort of sweeping reforms touted by the White House will pass in an election year.  more

The left claims that the healthcare debate is over and Obamacare is inevitable. There’s no legislative victory, however, until there’s signed legislation. The GOP must use whatever time is left to offer criticisms and alternatives.  more

The Democrats took a major step forward today when Sen. Baucus pushed his legislation though the Senate Finance Committee – and did it with Sen. Snowe’s support. Now, health-reform legislation by year’s end once again seems likely.  more