SGN Exclusive: AMA’s Members Want a Second Opinion

Some of the American Medical Association’s members just want to make sure they’re heard.  What they’re saying is clear: they don’t want the government running their profession.  A coalition of the association’s doctors has made known its opposition to the currently-proposed health care bill.  And they’re doing what they can to press AMA President Jim [...]

Something Fishy at The White House?

By Lisa Farrar Wellman
The President likes to win. He doesn’t care how he does it. He doesn’t mind employing Chicago-style tactics to twist arms and cut deals. He certainly doesn’t give a thought to asking American citizens to rat each other out. He want s to know who is causing trouble for his beloved Health [...]

Rep. Cao Puts His Country Above His Career

By Lisa Farrar Wellman
A lot of our focus lately has been on those precious Blue Dog Democrats who hold our country’s future in their hands. It is assumed no Republicans will vote for the current versions of health care reform stinking up the halls of Congress.
However, one Republican who is under as much pressure as [...]

Canadian Wendy Sullivan’s Health Care Nightmare, Part II

By Lisa Farrar Wellman
Behind closed doors Democratic leadership is strong arming Blue Dog Dems. I pray they hold fast to their principles but with someone like Nancy Pelosi (with eyeballs bugging) breathing down one’s neck, I know it’s tempting to give in, sign the confession and beg to be sent back to one’s cell. Oh, [...]

Canadian Wendy Sullivan’s Health Care Nightmare

By Lisa Farrar Wellman
Liberals love personal stories. On The Chosen One’s website readers can find sap story after sap story about health care woes. Visitors are encouraged to write in their own haunting tale to further the cause of Obamacare. While I don’t doubt that people need health care and certainly our system needs reform, [...]

A Closer Look at H.R. 3200

By Lisa Farrar Wellman
Have you looked at H.R. 3200 yet? The bill description reads: “To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.”
Obviously, it’s not going to provide affordable healthcare. We know the Congressional Budget Office released a report stating that this delightful, [...]