Category Archives: Healthcare

Republicans, Stand Up for Health Freedom

Posted in: Healthcare | October 19, 2017 at 9:16 am , by mariel

As a precondition for any bailout deal, families should be permitted to opt out of ObamaCare. By Phil Gramm Oct. 18, 2017 6:17 p.m. ET While there is plenty of blame to go around for Republicans’ inability to repeal and replace Obama Care, the effort was all but doomed as...

WSJ: Replace ObamaCare, Don’t Rename It

Posted in: Healthcare | February 3, 2017 at 9:52 am , by mariel

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Trying to cure all the program’s ills will only make them worse—and the GOP will get the blame. By PHIL GRAMM Feb. 2, 2017 7:23 p.m. ET So powerful is the political appeal of entitlement programs that modern democracies routinely choose bankruptcy over curtailing them. That’s even true of ObamaCare....

Where Clinton Will Take ObamaCare

Posted in: Healthcare, Sectors, Tax Policy | October 18, 2016 at 10:54 am , by mariel

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As with HillaryCare, a single payer, national health-care system has always been the goal. By PHIL GRAMM Oct. 17, 2016 In claiming earlier this year that the current U.S. health-care system “was HillaryCare before it was called ObamaCare,” Hillary Clinton was telling the truth—but not the whole truth. In 1993,...

WSJ: A Simple Cure for ObamaCare: Freedom

Posted in: Healthcare | February 24, 2015 at 11:14 am , by mariel

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The GOP needs a politically defensible alternative if the Supreme Court overturns federal-exchange subsidies. By: PHIL GRAMM Feb. 23, 2015 6:26 p.m. ET On March 4 the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in King v. Burwell, with a decision expected in late June. If the court strikes down the payment...

A 2014 Health-Care Strategy: Freedom

Posted in: Fiscal Policy, Healthcare, Sectors, Uncategorized | July 25, 2014 at 9:38 am , by mariel

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ObamaCare repeal is out until 2017, but here’s an agenda to unite the GOP and offer Americans relief. By Phil Gramm Contradictory rulings this week by the D.C. and Fourth Circuit Courts of Appeals mean that ObamaCare will probably return to the Supreme Court. The crucial issue is whether the government can...

Cavuto-Phil Gramm: Find ObamaCare’s weakest link and go for that

Posted in: Financial Services, Fiscal Policy, Healthcare, Sectors | September 27, 2013 at 11:19 am , by mariel

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September 26, 2013 Former Sen. Phil Gramm, (R-Texas), on the debt ceiling debate and efforts to defund ObamaCare. Watch the video...

WSJ: The Obama Growth Discount

Posted in: Fiscal Policy, Healthcare, Regulatory Policy, Tax Policy | April 15, 2011 at 8:31 pm , by evren

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Had the U.S. economy recovered from the current recession the way it bounced back from the other 10 recessions of the Post-War Period, our per capita Gross Domestic Product would be $3,553 higher and 11.9 million more Americans would now be working....