Ancient Egyptians, employing an arduous system of hieroglyphics to represent numbers in their ignorance of zero, displayed a man holding his hands over his head for 1,000,000 in seeming astonishment that numbers ran so high. Americans presented with our national…

Sen. John McCain typifies the dysfunctional U.S. Senate. The 80-year-old flew 2,300 miles from Phoenix to Washington for an important procedural vote: simply to begin debate for the GOP’s replacement bill for Obamacare (Vice President Pence broke the 50-50 deadlock…

The American economy grows at an anemic rate because our hospital bills grow at an alarming rate. Last year, the U.S. economy expanded by under two percent. Over the last seven decades, gross domestic product (GDP) in the U.S. averaged…

As Americans, we often to look to the United Kingdom for inspiration, innovation and, in some cases, direction. This time we look to the UK and are instead given a grave warning, as we get a glimpse of the evils…

Competition in the healthcare market is healthy for patients. Unfortunately, in recent years hospitals, aided by government regulation, have reduced competition by consolidating and gobbling up physician practices. “Site-neutral payments” have the potential to slow that trend. Historically, Medicare has…

Historian Paul Johnson once wrote that the leaders of the British Colonial Empire “used the state…to enlarge the area in which their inefficiency would matter less.” Such was the product of Obamacare and its ultimate goal — colonialization (aka expansion)…

Last week, while most of Washington obsessed over the self-serving cavils of a cashiered federal bureaucrat, Senate Republicans focused on a project much nearer to the hearts of the voters — repealing Obamacare. And the GOP made significant progress in…

Next week Speaker Paul Ryan plans to ask the House a vote on a bill to nationalize medical malpractice law. If that sounds pretty unconservative — you’re right. The move comes just weeks after the Ryan-led House GOP abandoned its…

President Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accords has produced an all too predictable escalation in progressive hysteria, including portentous claims that it will exacerbate a global health crisis allegedly caused by climate change. The Los…

Sacramento A Bay Area Assemblyman got an earful last week as he pushed a largely symbolic bill that would have made it legal for California public employees to be members of the Communist Party. Rob Bonta of Oakland contritely withdrew…