Written by John L. Ligon - Heritage Foundation

As the President, the House Speaker, and the Senate Majority Leader continue closed-door negotiations on a final health care reform bill, they should reacquaint themselves with the crippling impact the employer mandate penalties would impose on small businesses.
The House-passed bill, for ... Read more: The House-Passed Health Care Plan Revisited: Employer Mandate Penalties on Small Firms
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Written by Michael Boldin
When a state 'nullifies' a federal law or regulation, it is passing legally-binding legislation that makes the federal act in question void and inoperative, or 'non-effective,' within the boundaries of that state; or, in other words, not a law as far as the state is concerned.
Current nullification efforts ... Read more: Raising the Bar: Health Care Nullification and Interposition
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Written by James R. Edwards Jr
A Washington Post editorialSaturday argues that illegal aliens should be allowed to purchase health insurance through the "exchange" created in both the House and Senate health reform bills. The argument is a familiar one in health policy circles. Having more people in ... Read more: Washington Post's Take on Illegals in Health Reform
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Written by John Perazzo
The polls have been clear for quite some time: By a substantial margin, Americans oppose the efforts of Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats to enact a massive overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system, one that would greatly expand the federal government's role.
Significantly, ...
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Written by Mike Ritze
OKLAHOMA CITY - The voters of Oklahoma will have the opportunity to preserve the existing health care system in Oklahoma under legislation sought by three state legislators.
State Reps. Mike Ritze and Mike Reynolds and state Sen. Randy Brogdon announced today that they will file legislation ... Read more: Lawmakers File "Freedom of Healthcare Choice Act"
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Written by Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C.- Today, U.S. Senators Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) and John Ensign (R-Nevada), raised a Constitutional Point of Order on the Senate floor against the Democrat health care takeover bill on behalf of the Steering Committee, a caucus of conservative senators. The Senate will vote ... Read more: Ensign, Demint To Force Vote On Health Care Bill Unconstitutionality
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Written by Michael Boldin
Resistance is NOT Futile! Health Care Nullification: Things Have Just Gotten Underway
"The several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government." -Thomas Jefferson
For the past few days, I've received loads of ... Read more: Health Care Nullification: Things Have Just Gotten Underway
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Written by Heritage.org
An Analysis of the Senate Democrats' Health Care Bill by the Staff of the Center for Health Policy and the Staff of the Center for Data Analysis
Backgrounder #2353
Abstract: The Senate health care bill would overhaul the entire health care sector of the U.S. economy by erecting ... Read more: Analysis of the Senate Democrats' Health Care Bill
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Written by Stephen Hyde

What The Senate And House Bills Miss
People will game any economic system for their own benefit-whether medical care or anything else. It is this characteristic human behavior that makes markets thrive while assuring that no alternative, centrally-controlled mechanism will ever match markets' ... Read more: We Don't Need An Individual Mandate To Buy Health Insurance: Part 2
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