The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) released a statement Thursday expressing concern with the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) recent proposed update to the anti-conscience mandate in Obamacare.

As Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the USCCB, explained:

[The proposal] ...

Read more: Catholic Bishops Recognize Failures in Obama Admin’s “Accommodation”

Most people would place me on the political right. Yet when it comes to health care, I am more egalitarian than almost everybody on the left. I always have been.

By that I mean I am more egalitarian than the defenders of the British National Health Service (NHS) and the defenders of Canada’s system ...

Read more: Why I Am More Egalitarian Than Most Liberals on Health Care

The Obama Administration’s suspension of the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act provisions of the Affordable Care Act halted a new federal entitlement program that was fiscally unsound. The repeal of the CLASS Act as part of the American Taxpayer Relief Act provides an ...

Read more: The Long-Term Care Financing Crisis

Philosophers always say, define your terms. So what is a quack?

Quacks are people who treat any one idea (it may be a bad idea or a good idea) as if it is the entire world.

Excess is the problem. A lack of proportion is what makes someone a quack, and what makes quacks a menace.

There are poisons ...

Read more: Education: The Quacks are Winning. Everyone Else is Losing

Am I the only one who thinks it is immoral to bring children into the world if you don't have the means to support them? I must be one of the few. I rarely see anyone else make the point.

Before anyone objects, let me concede up front that a lot of things in life are unpredictable. Women become ...

Read more: Bad Parents, Poor Kids

Last week John Goodman posted a brief blurb about the latest problems with :. The issue deserves a little more attention because it is an abject lesson of how health policy always fails these days.

The articles from the New York Times and the RAND Corporationindicate that HIT has not lived up to ...

Read more: The HIT Scam: Health Information Technology

Since 1966, the National Rifle Association has urged the federal government to address the problem of mental illness and violence. As we noted then, "the time is at hand to seek means by which society can identify, treat and temporarily isolate such individuals," because "elimination of the ...

Read more: Mental Health and Firearms

Most people would agree that deciding how to educate one’s children is a serious personal choice. Although some may robotically send their children off to public school, most parents don’t easily decide whether to give public schools a chance. Whether deciding to send a child to public school, ...

Read more: Shall We Homeschool?