Phil Kerpen - Free-Market Advocate

IRS and HHS can’t be trusted with our health

Phil Kerpen — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:21:22 -0400

“We have a large government,” political consultant David Axelrod offered as a plea of ignorance to all of the scandals swirling around his boss. “Part of being president is there’s so much beneath you that you can’t know because the government is so vast.” And yet, thanks to Axelrod and Obama, we now stand on the precipice of the largest expansion of government power in almost half a century: Obamacare, officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

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Obama Agenda Undermines Drug Innovation

Phil Kerpen — Fri, 10 May 2013 10:20:08 -0400

Stopping the coming tsunami of health care costs depends on new cures, especially for Alzheimer's Disease, that will come not from any federal agency but from private sector pharmaceutical research. It is imperative that government policy at least do no harm to that research, which sadly is a test President Obama's agenda fails.

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FCC Must Run Honest Auctions

Phil Kerpen — Fri, 03 May 2013 15:52:24 -0400

“America’s global leadership in mobile, and the strategic bandwidth advantage so many have worked hard to create, is being threatened by the looming spectrum crunch,” recently departed Federal Communications (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski said.

But while Genachowski asked Congress to authorize incentive auctions to free up spectrum, he also opposed language to require free and fair auctions to the highest bidder. Instead, he wanted the authority to micromanage auction rules to pick winner and losers, effectively handing spectrum to smaller players at below-market prices by excluding the largest carriers, AT&T and Verizon.

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Lobbyists v. Sick People

Phil Kerpen — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:23:46 -0400

What if you had to choose between making insurance more affordable for Americans with pre-existing conditions or funding lobbyists and political hacks? That’s the decision the House will face when it considers H.R. 1549, the Helping Sick Americans Now Act, sponsored by Rep. Joe Pitts of Pennsylvania. It should be an easy choice.

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NLRB Bill Key Test for the Senate

Phil Kerpen — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:43:37 -0400

On April 12, the House passed H. R. 1120, the Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor Management Relations Act, on a narrow 219 to 209 vote.

That this legislation is even necessary shows the remarkable contempt the Obama administration has for the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution; that not a single House Democrat voted for the bill shows the party is willingly to blindly support the White House without regard to the Constitution.

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Obama Budget Shadowed by Gov't. Waste Report

Phil Kerpen — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/2013/April/Obama-Budget-Shadowed-by-Wasteful-Spending-Report/