Op/Ed

On this 50th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid, as our nation struggles with its latest effort at health reform, it's a good time to reflect on the programs' successes and failures.

It is legal in the U.S. for medical facilities to be reimbursed for their reasonable costs for harvesting human tissue and organs, but it is illegal to sell them for profit. 

When a president takes us too far in one direction, they start to swing back in the opposite direction—at least temporarily. Trump happens to be the brashest and most outlandish Obama critic, which allows him to take advantage of public discontent.

"If we can’t repeal Obamacare, the country may be forced into a debate over whether a single-payer system is more efficient than Obamacare, and we may conclude it is," said IPI's Merrill Matthews.

This organization knows something about insurance, and a generous interpretation of its action is that hiring Tavenner is “buying a little insurance.”

As long as government is involved in every aspect of our lives, then there will be a lot of money thrown at campaigns, especially presidential elections. Every time liberals try to stop it, people come up with a way around the restriction.

Turns out President Obama’s prediction about American drivers embracing electric cars was about as accurate as his prediction that Obamacare would lower health insurance premiums.

If Republicans are unable to repeal or somehow bypass Obamacare, conservatives may eventually decide that a single-payer system—such as expanding Medicare to everyone—would be better than the Obamacare status quo.

Much of the reporting on fracking is a confused mess. One day there's a news story or newly released study implying that fracking is causing earthquakes or groundwater contamination; the next day there's a different study or story asserting there is no clear connection. But scientific evidence does not support the media confusion and hyperbole. 

Hillary Clinton shouldn't take for granted she's got the Democratic nomination in the bag. Bernie Sanders, a self-described Socialist, is doing as well against Clinton in the polls as Obama was back in the 2008 election cycle.