Opinion Editorials

  • Repeal and replace ObamaCare
    Nov 8, 2010  - Health care costs too much in this country. Spending $1 trillion more on health care, as the Democrats' new law does, didn't reduce health care costs. In fact, it will only make matters worse. According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the law will actually increase the cost of... More
  • Camp: Health Law Will Hurt Consumers, Business
    May 27, 2010  - The Democratic agenda has been made clear: Tax Americans more so government can spend more. It started with a trillion-dollar stimulus bill that has failed to hold unemployment in check. Then it was a trillion-dollar health care bill that, according to the Congressional Budget Office, will increase ... More
  • Another missed deadline
    Apr 15, 2010  - “These short-term actions are destabilizing medical practices—now on a monthly basis—leaving both physicians and their patients in limbo.” – America Medical Association Executive VP Michael Maves, MD, in April 12, 2010, letter to Congress. During the health care debate, Democrats repeatedly promis... More
  • What’s in the health-care bill for you? Have a seat over there and wait
    Mar 25, 2010  - With the president’s signature still wet on the Senate health care overhaul, people rightly ask, “what will it mean for me?” For many, the answer will likely be found in your paycheck and in the doctor’s waiting room. As a heart surgeon, I saw a wide range of new health care mandates from Washing... More
  • What's in the Bill -- Read it and Weep
    Mar 19, 2010  - Three weeks ago, at the White House Health Care Summit, President Barack Obama gave Congress six weeks to consider his proposal and chart a course forward. The Democrats are now using every dirty and undemocratic trick in the book to ram this health care bill through Congress. House Speaker Nancy Pe... More
  • Democrats Should Shelve New Taxes and Work With GOP on Alternatives
    Jan 20, 2010  - While the White House keeps changing their job-calculation methods in a desperate effort to claim their so-called stimulus bill is working, Americans are still asking: Where are the jobs? Facts are facts. Last year, the Obama administration and congressional Democrats spent nearly $1 trillion we don... More
  • If Stimulus Bill is Working, Where Have the Jobs?
    Aug 19, 2009  - At the six month anniversary of President Barack Obama's signature “achievement” — the $787 billion stimulus measure — it's important to separate economic fact from fiction. While persuading Democratic lawmakers to pass the massive spending bill without reading it, the White House promised the sti... More
  • Davis: Put health-care reform on hold
    Aug 4, 2009  - In this column, U.S. Rep. Geoff Davis, R-Hebron, says Congress needs to slow down on health-care reform because current proposals are greatly flawed. Following is the full text of that column. On July 31st, the House of Representatives adjourned for the August district work period without voting on... More
  • Free trade could help lift us out of current economic mire
    Jun 25, 2009  - As lawmakers continue to debate solutions to revive our ailing economy, a pillar of recovery that must not be forgotten is the vital role free trade plays in growing our economy and creating jobs.   With unemployment numbers continuing to rise, there is no better time than now to affirm our natio... More
  • TARP shortchanges small business as banks hoard cash and don’t loan
    Jun 25, 2009  - On Oct. 3, 2008, the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was signed into law. At $700 billion, this bank bailout was unprecedented. Perhaps more striking at the time, however, was the complete lack of meaningful guidelines, measurable benchmarks, and strings attached to the bailout money. In essenc... More