The Obamacare Repeal Can, Kicked Down the Road, One More Time

Jim Geraghty

After all this time, it increasingly appears impossible to get 50 Republican senators to agree on legislation to replace Obamacare.

Last night brought genuinely shocking news as two GOP senators, who up until now hadn’t appeared to be likely “no” votes, announced their opposition: Jerry Moran of Kansas and Mike Lee of Utah.
Moran:

There are serious problems with Obamacare, and my goal remains what it has been for a long time: to repeal and replace it. This closed-door process has yielded the BCRA [Better Care Reconciliation Act], which fails to repeal the Affordable Care Act or address healthcare’s rising costs. For the same reasons I could not support the previous version of this bill, I cannot support this one.

We should not put our stamp of approval on bad policy. Furthermore, if we leave the federal government in control of everyday healthcare decisions, it is more likely that our healthcare system will devolve into a single-payer system, which would require a massive federal spending ...

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Elizabeth Warren’s Inconsistent Life Ethic

Jeff Cimmino

Last week, Elizabeth Warren took to Twitter to call attention to the story of a mother whose son was born prematurely and required costly medical care for which Medicaid helped to pay. The...

U.S. Defense Spending and False Comparisons

Jim Talent

U.S. Defense Spending and False Comparisons

Canada and Sweden’s Misguided Abortion Crusade

Jeff Cimmino

The governments of Canada and Sweden are fighting for the right to kill the unborn in the developing world. Canada has allotted almost $250 million to this cause, and that’s less than half of...

What We Talk about When We Talk about Health Care

Max Bloom

The debate over health care is characteristically — I almost wrote “uncharacteristically,” but then I gave it a few seconds of thought — dumb. A representative case: This New York Times article...

A Ridiculous Times Op-ed

Elliot Kaufman

I had to check my glasses after reading the first sentence of an op-ed in the New York Times yesterday: “As a Holocaust survivor, a successful financier who embraces free-market capitalism and a...

Ted Lieu’s Conspiracy Theories

Ian Tuttle

In politics, as in physics, certain laws seem to obtain. Exempli gratia: For every stupid thing said or done by someone on the right, an equal and opposite stupid thing is done by someone on the...

The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America

Scott Weidensaul

'With a novelist's flair . . Mr. Weidensaul invites readers to imagine the bloody ground beneath modern America's apparently tame landscape.' - The Wall Street Journal

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