Why Conservatives Still Can’t Support Obama’s Health Care Overhaul

By Peter Ferrara August 17, 2009

Through his Secretary of Health and Human Services, President Obama indicated over the weekend that he is willing to drop the public option for government-funded health insurance to get his ...

Obama’s Health-Care Rhetoric Divorced from Reality

By Peter Ferrara August 12, 2009

The sad truth is that President Obama’s health-care rhetoric is so divorced from reality that you can’t believe anything he says about his health overhaul scheme. Yesterday at ...

Obama’s Shut-Up-America Speech

By Peter Ferrara August 10, 2009

Last week, at a Democratic party fundraiser in McLean, Va., Pres. Barack Obama gave his answer to the thousands of Americans showing up at town halls and ...

New Study: Obama Health Plan — Rationing, Higher Taxes, and Lower-Quality Care

By Peter Ferrara August 7, 2009

Posted this morning at Heartland.org is my new comprehensive study, “The Obama Health Plan: Rationing, Higher Taxes, and Lower Quality Care.” The study explains in full detail, based ...

Krugman’s Mandate Mistake

By Peter Ferrara July 29, 2009

Following on my previous post, one other note about Paul Krugman’s column from Monday. He especially complains about Blue Dog opposition to the employer mandate, saying that ...

Krugman’s Health Care Incoherence

By Peter Ferrara July 29, 2009

In his most recent column, Paul Krugman tries to enlighten the dwindling readership of the New York Times on the subject of health care. The usual Krugman ...

Obama Promises to Ration Your Care

By Peter Ferrara July 23, 2009

What’s the difference between waste and the health care you want? Answer: Obama’s health-care rationing bureaucracy. You may want health care that your doctor has prescribed for ...

Politics & Policy

Medicaid and Medicare for All

By Peter Ferrara July 1, 2009

National-health-insurance schemes always start by promising health care for everyone. But they always end up establishing powerful bureaucracies whose purpose is to deny people health care through rationing. That is ...

Politics & Policy

The Constitutional Right to Listen

By Peter Ferrara January 28, 2009

We usually think of freedom of speech as involving the right of speakers to speak, whether through public addresses, in writing, or over radio and television airwaves. But the courts ...

Politics & Policy

Obama Judges

By Peter Ferrara October 30, 2008

The issue of judicial philosophy has been mostly overlooked in this campaign, but the differences between the two candidates are stark: Obama has the most left-wing position of any presidential ...