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Why the health care industry is behind Coakley in Massachusetts

By Steve McGough / January 13, 2010 /

Speculation everywhere concerning why health care insurance and pharmaceutical companies are tossing money at Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley in support of her bid for Senate. When you’re a big company, you’ve got to play both sides.

Three Good Reasons

By TomTGRWolcott / June 24, 2012 /

With the much anticipated release of the Supreme Courts Ruling on Obama-Care and while surfing the web last night while watching television,  I stumbled upon an article entitled “Three Reasons The Supreme Court Should Overturn Obama-Care’s Individual Mandate”.

Government regulatory uncertainty puts ‘breaks’ on economy

By Steve McGough / October 6, 2010 /

Small businesses are somewhat resilient when it comes to dealing with state and federal regulations, and to a certain extent, large businesses can deal with the new rules and rule changes a bit more effectively since they can absorb additional costs across different business areas. What small and large businesses both have more difficulty with…

Symptom of the Disease: Tax dollars indirectly used for abortions

By Steve McGough / October 14, 2009 /

Charmaine Yoest has an interesting post about the Capps Amendment designed to set up accounting mechanisms to ensure tax dollars do not directly fund abortions. An accounting mechanism? The problem is that direct funding may be blocked, but there is no way to ensure indirect funding is not used for abortions. This is another example…

Mitt Romney’s health care reform presentation

By Steve McGough / May 12, 2011 /

Without a doubt, one of Mitt Romney’s hurdles for conservatives will be his support for a state government health care mandate in Massachusetts. But something immediately caught my eye while reviewing his presentation today. For those of you who read my stuff, can you guess what it is?

Teacher’s union campaigns for Obamacare – demands waiver so law will not apply to them

By Steve McGough / October 8, 2010 /

I mentioned health care mandate waiver requests on Oct. 6 (two days ago). The big discussion was centered around McDonald’s and their mini-med health care programs that would not meet medical loss ratio requirements in the law. Now we learn a branch of the American Federation of Teachers – who campaigned and donated big dollars…

CK to the Left: You scream raaaaaacist the loudest when you are losing the argument

By Jim Vicevich / July 22, 2010 /

Indeed. Charles Krauthammer never fails to bring clarity to an argument, or rather, unfounded charges. Remember the Shirley Sherrod story exploded after the NAACP decided to label the Tea Party folks, like me, as racists, without proof and based on nothing more than wild accusations. But when you have lost the big government is the…

The Baucus bill “pork”

By SoundOffSister / October 13, 2009 /

Now that it’s passed out of  “Finance” (with the help of Maine’s Olympia Snowe), you will be outraged about what follows, unless, of course, you live in Nevada, New York, Michigan, New Jersey, and Massachusetts.  Several Senators have made sure that the Obamacare rules are different there. The Baucus Unaffordable Health Care Bill proposes to…

Senate GOP caving on government health care option? Update: Video, Nelson says yes

By Steve McGough / October 7, 2009 /

Political junkie Erik Erickson who blogs over at Red State hears from a reliable source that during meetings today, Republican members of the Senate became agreeable to the government health care option.

Symptom of the Disease: Axelrod still getting paid by Obama’s marketing firm

By Steve McGough / August 18, 2009 /

Nice gig if you can get it. David Axelrod, adviser to President Obama and White House spam director, sold his Chicago-based Democrat-exclusive consulting and marketing firm in December. The sale included a deal where he would still get paid $2 million the firm owes him – or he owes himself – while serving as senior…