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CMA commentary in Washington Examiner: No such thing as free operation
March 19, 2010 - Byron York challenges the cherry-picking use of positive healthcare poll responses to questions regarding requiring coverage by businesses, by all Americans and for preexisting conditions.
Besides negative public perceptions of the legislation in its entirety, even the positive poll responses are misleading, since the questions only pose a partial reality. Read full commentary
CMA Op-Ed in The Church Report: Healthcare Insanity: Do Dead People Bleed?
March 12, 2010 - Did you hear about the psychiatric patient who kept insisting in the face of all the obvious evidence to the contrary that he was dead?
Finally, a clever psychiatrist challenged the patient, "Well, do dead people bleed?"
The patient thought for a moment... Read full Op-Ed
CMA commentary in Washington Examiner: Pearl Harbor healthcare attack and sleeping giants
Feb. 14, 2010 - Mark Tapscott's editorial reveals on the political radar screen a "Pearl Harbor" healthcare overhaul strategy ("Pelosi aide says Democratic congressional leaders have settled on legislative 'trick' to pass Obamacare," Wednesday). President Obama convenes healthcare peace talks with Republicans while Congressional Democrats deploy the "reconciliation" maneuver to neutralize GOP opposition, pass the radical Senate bill and sink any hopes of bipartisan reform. READ full Op-Ed
CMA Op-Ed in Church Report: Mired in healthcare muck, the President suddenly pleads for help
"And I want to be very specific," Mr. Obama earnestly continues in the CBS interview, apparently on the verge of revealing the cryptic healthcare conundrums that have stymied him and his staff up until now.
"How do you guys want to lower costs?"
Oh.
That might have been a good question for the President and his party to start with a year ago, before crafting a radical and now-rejected plan to have their government take over our health care. READ full Op-Ed
