. . of over-the-counter medicine.

Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus, D, Mont., ruled Roberts out of order, and that was that. Democrats who whine about high-cost drugs stood by as Roberts’ reform died. Americans who save their own money for their own healthcare may have to spend more of it on, say, pricier prescription cough syrup, rather than cheaper Robitussin.

― Democrats channeled Marie Antoinette as they sank Cornyn’s amendment to require members of Congress to enroll in their own states’ Medicaid programs.

― Democrats killed Kentucky Republican Jim Bunning’s amendment to require that the Finance Committee’s website feature its ObamaCare bill with an official price tag for 72 ho...

. . of over-the-counter medicine.

Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus, D, Mont., ruled Roberts out of order, and that was that. Democrats who whine about high-cost drugs stood by as Roberts’ reform died. Americans who save their own money for their own healthcare may have to spend more of it on, say, pricier prescription cough syrup, rather than cheaper Robitussin.

― Democrats channeled Marie Antoinette as they sank Cornyn’s amendment to require members of Congress to enroll in their own states’ Medicaid programs.

― Democrats killed Kentucky Republican Jim Bunning’s amendment to require that the Finance Committee’s website feature its ObamaCare bill with an official price tag for 72 hours before the Committee’s final vote. Seizing 17 percent of the American economy apparently is too urgent a task to withstand a three-day wait.

“Every bill produced and every vote cast by Senate Democrats reveals that they want higher taxes, less choice, less competition, and government making your medical decisions,” says Michael Cannon, the Cato Institute’s Director of Health Policy Studies. “Nothing good can come of health reform in this Congress.”

Democrats show zero interest in market-friendly, patient-centered ideas such as using refundable tax credits to make health insurance more affordable, granting universal access to health-savings accounts, or allowing Americans to buy health insurance across state lines (much as Democrats usually support the right of minors to cross state lines to receive abortions).

Most Democrats spurn these ideas as threats to a gargantuan, bureaucratic system that will devour tax dollars and deliver sub-par care. Regardless of the government option’s shaky prognosis, when it comes to lower-cost GOP healthcare proposals that actually could help patients, Democrats just say “No.”


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Democrats show zero interest in market-friendly, patient-centered ideas such as using refundable tax credits to make health insurance more affordable, granting universal access to health-savings accounts, or allowing Americans to buy health insurance across state lines (much as Democrats usually support the right of minors to cross state lines to receive abortions).

Most Democrats spurn these ideas as threats to a gargantuan, bureaucratic system that will devour tax dollars and deliver sub-par care. Regardless of the government option’s shaky prognosis, when it comes to lower-cost GOP healthcare proposals that actually could help patients, Democrats just say “No.”


The Party Of “NO” Evisceration of ‘Health’Bill Will Make Us Sick & Broke

Deroy Murdock is a columnist with Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. E-mail him at deroy.Murdock@gmail.com.