Dick Morris and Eileen Mcgann's blog

The Shot Heard Round the World

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:01:37 -0500

On the rude arch that spanned the flood
In the April breeze their flag unfurled
Here the embattled farmer stood

How ObamaCare will alienate Americans

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:21:54 -0500

Obama’s healthcare bill, the poisoned Kool-Aid now approved by the Senate, will not confer any of its supposed benefits on Americans until 2013. But they will find themselves chafing at its restrictions and paying its taxes immediately after the law takes effect. Then, they will see no gain, but plenty of pain, for the next three years.

ObamaCare will bankrupt states

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:19:42 -0500

While Obama has been at great pains to make a show of avoiding taxes on the middle class to pay for his healthcare changes, his proposed increase in Medicaid eligibility will have a huge impact on the 39 states whose income cutoffs for the program are below those required in the new federal legislation.

Obama’s healthcare plan not out of the woods yet

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:55:46 -0500

Joseph Stubbs, president of the American College of Physicians — the second largest doctors’ group in the country — confirms that “the supply of doctors just won’t be there” for the 30 million new patients Barack Obama wants to cover.

The healthcare disaster in Canada

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:31:55 -0500

After more than a decade of public healthcare with mandatory coverage, so many Canadian doctors have left the practice and so many young people have entered other fields that Canada ranks 26th of 28 developed nations in its ratio of physicians to population. Once, Canada ranked among the leaders in the number of physicians — but that was before government healthcare drove doctors out of the practice in droves.

Obama taxes pacemakers, heart valves

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:37:26 -0400

The more fiscal details of the healthcare bills emerge, the more appalling they seem. The Senate Finance Committee bill includes a broad provision taxing all manner of medical devices.

Your insurance premiums will increase

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:09:27 -0400

Will a young, healthy, childless individual or couple buy health insurance costing 7.5 percent of their income as required by Obama’s health legislation?

Cut the elderly and give to AARP

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:39:31 -0400

Among the $500 billion in Medicare cuts that will provide the bulk of the financing for Obama’s healthcare plan is a $160 billion to $180 billion cut in the Medicare Advantage program, which offers a range of benefits not available to beneficiaries under basic Medicare.

ObamaCare: Taxes for everyone

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:57:38 -0400

Now that the various health care plans are being reduced to print, the financial details are emerging and with them a fundamental conclusion is becoming evident: The Obama plan is a giant tax increase for much of the American people (not just the rich).

Rebutting Obama on ‘death panels’

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:50:10 -0400

On Friday, Aug. 14, The New York Times ran a front-page story “rebutting” the “rumor” that Obama’s healthcare plan calls for the creation of “death panels” to decide when to pull the plug on sick patients. The rebuttal misses the fundamental truth of the death panel charge.

Rhetoric vs. Reality: Healthcare by Orwell

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:34:39 -0400

President Obama’s rhetoric last week summoned the memory of “1984,” George Orwell’s novel of a nightmarish future — where the slogan of the rulers is “War is peace; freedom is slavery; ignorance is strength.”

Obama to repeal Medicare, hurting elderly

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:16:25 -0400

Obama’s healthcare proposal is, in effect, the repeal of the Medicare program as we know it. The elderly will go from being the group with the most access to free medical care to the one with the least access.

The death of American health care

Tue, 19 May 2009 15:51:42 -0400

When all of America’s top health insurers and providers met at the White House last week and pledged to save $2 trillion over the next decade in health costs, they were pledging to sabotage our medical care. The blunt truth, which everybody agreed to keep quiet, is that the only way to reduce these costs is to ration health care, thereby destroying our system.

In 2010, we vote on Obama’s brave new world

Tue, 12 May 2009 16:22:19 -0400

Despite Gen. Colin Powell’s advice that the Republican Party must move to the center, now is not the time for triangulation by the GOP. It is, rather, the time for the Party to stand firm and fast upon its principles and let this nation come around to its way of thinking, driven by horror at the consequences of Obama’s program.

A crisis that Obama won’t waste

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:50:51 -0400

This economic crisis is too useful for Obama to want it to end. When Rahm Emanuel — and later Hillary Clinton — spoke of never letting a good crisis “go to waste,” many people were shocked. But now Obama seems to embody the corollary: that the crisis should continue until he has thoroughly milked it to reshape American politics, society and the economy.