In an attempt to protect poor, uninsured and underinsured Americans from unsafe drugs, we are making sure that some go without drugs completely. It is time the law was changed.

By next year, about two-thirds of American physicians will be working as salaried employees of large groups and hospitals. This movement has been underway for years. Over the last decade, the number of independent physicians was falling by about 2% a year. But these trends are now accelerating. 

A key government panel voted this month to whack what Medicare pays most doctors to treat patients. It's an important step on the path to ObamaCare--because the only way to make European-style health entitlements work in America is to pay US doctors lower European wages.

This event will discuss President Obama's health reform effort.

In less than twenty-five years, government “affordable housing” and other housing policies have turned a healthy market into a financial ruin. Until Fannie and Freddie’s market dominance and the government’s role in the housing finance system are substantially reduced or eliminated, the United States will continue to have an inferior and unstable housing market.

Having encountered un-Chicago-like dissent and disagreement in Washington, Obama has responded with classic Chicago brass knuckles.

Today President Obama is ignoring the lessons of the civil rights era he claims to revere. The only purpose of the executive order is to dangle the specter of retaliation (by losing her contracts) and harassment (from political opponents).

The Obama Democrats are carrying additional baggage as the economy languishes and are on the defensive on the issues they thought would win over the bitter clingers.