by | Mar 23, 2017

If this is the Republicans’ idea of party unity, please take me off your guest list. At best, the Republican Party can, right now, be described as self-destructive, and at worst sheer masochistic. There is no “I” in team but…

by | Mar 23, 2017

It’s been a while since I’ve agreed with the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, but he’s spot on here: Indeed, Speaker Paul Ryan (Wisconsin) could do worse than cancel the floor vote today on the American Health Care Act (a.k.a. RINOcare)….

by | Mar 22, 2017

Speaker Paul Ryan’s proposed “American Health Care Act” (a.k.a. RINOcare) got a bit of a makeover on Monday. Now the pig has rouge and eye shadow in addition to lipstick. To be fair, some of the changes are good ones. Amendments…

by | Mar 20, 2017

No one said draining the swamp would be easy. Once a bureaucratic monstrosity becomes law and distorts normal human choice and rationality, it is hard to break free from the quagmire. Speaker Paul Ryan and the House of Representatives leadership…

by | Mar 17, 2017

Will Speaker Paul Ryan’s American Health Care Act (AHCA) ever become law? That seems unlikely, unless it undergoes major changes. According to the Washington Post: Critics of the legislation warned Wednesday that the measure remains far short of the 216…

by | Mar 16, 2017

There has been a running conversation over the last few days between David Catron and me about House Speaker Paul Ryan’s proposed “American Health Care Act” (AHCA). Catron supports the bill; I don’t. Catron has responded to my response to his defense of the American Health…

by | Mar 15, 2017

When the Congressional Budget Office published its score of the Republican Obamacare replacement bill, the American Health Care Act, something that should have already been obvious to the GOP leadership became even more painfully so. And yet House Speaker Paul…

by | Mar 14, 2017

House Speaker Paul Ryan is talking out of both sides of his mouth on health care reform. He claims that his proposed “American Health Care Act” (AHCA) will increase choice and lower costs. Yet the actual bill preserves many of…

by | Mar 13, 2017

American Spectator writer David Catron recently warned conservatives and libertarians about having unrealistic expectations about repealing Obamacare. He listed the many good things that are in House Speaker Paul Ryan’s proposed “American Health Care Act” (AHCA) such as the repeal…

by | Feb 23, 2017

Last week, in case our readers missed it, House Speaker Paul Ryan did an interesting interview with Sean Hannity on the question of Congress’ role in moving the agenda of the new president. Video of the interview can be found…

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