Obama Budget Would Create $634 Billion Health-Care Fund President Obama intends to release a budget tomorrow that creates a 10-year, $634 billion “reserve fund” to partially pay for a vast expansion of the U.S. health care system, an overhaul that many experts project will cost as much a...

The Corner on National Review Online As for the initial premise, a new study from the Journal of the American Medical Association debunks the notion that uninsured Americans explain much of what’s going on in emergency rooms. From the Heartland Institute’s coverage: The past decade has s...

I hear that Michael Moore is rounding up his nitty boys to ward off any appointment of CNN's Sanjay Gupta as Surgeon General. For a long time I did not know whether the Surgeon General was like Betty Crocker or a real life person. I did finally get my head straight on that. Now after learning they a...

While Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are making grandiose promises of Universal Healthcare, which the nation can not afford, something is happening that will solve our health care care woes—if the government, politicians, medical establishment, health care lobby, and electorate will let it. It i...

So W has decided that he will be a fiscal conservative in the 8th year of his term. The fact that he is a lame duck with no political power coupled with the fact that this budget most likely won't be approved until after he has left office makes me think that his heart really isn't in it. But I'd li...

I realize I've been back in the US for three weeks now and have been woefully light on blogging. Let me give you a give a quick navel-gazing update. I spent the first two weeks back from deployment almost exclusively with my son, who is 18 months old and doesn't really understand why I've been gone ...