Articles By Author Greg Scandlen
Articles by Greg Scandlen
03/05/2010 12:00 AM
It is the Winter of the Living Dead as the Zombies stalk Washington. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are rampaging with glassy eyes, rotting flesh, and arms ...(read more)
02/19/2010 12:00 AM
It is time. The surprise retirement by Evan Bayh underscores that the times have changed. Dramatically. The American people have gotten a taste of what ...(read more)
02/04/2010 12:00 AM
Man, I go away for a month and all hell breaks loose.
Whoddathunk that when Consumer Power Reports resumed publishing in February that health reform would ...(read more)
01/25/2010 12:00 AM
A revolution is underway in American health care, but you won’t read about it in newspapers or see it on TV.The revolution involves a growing number ...(read more)
12/31/2009 12:00 AM
With President Barack Obama and the Congressional Democrats twisting themselves like pretzels to get something -- anything -- passed on health reform with ...(read more)
12/30/2009 12:00 AM
With President Barack Obama and the Congressional Democrats twisting themselves like pretzels to get something—anything—passed on health reform ...(read more)
12/30/2009 12:00 AM
During the Bolshevik revolution Lenin reportedly said that capitalists would sell him the rope by which they would be hanged.More recently in 1971, Chicago's ...(read more)
12/28/2009 12:00 AM
I have never been more worried about the future of liberty than I am this Christmas. I am normally pretty calm (if a tad cynical) and don't like to get ...(read more)
12/21/2009 12:00 AM
I don't know where to start this week. A little prognosticating would be in order, but I have no idea what to say. Mr. Obama said the Congress is "on ...(read more)
12/20/2009 12:00 AM
The lust to score a political win on health care is making Tiger Woods look like a saint. Congressional Democrats are willing to throw all common sense ...(read more)
12/11/2009 12:00 AM
If you are in San Diego or know people who are, The Heartland Institute is holding a Health Care Roundtable on December 15 at the Marina Village Conference ...(read more)
12/03/2009 12:00 AM
Hoo, boy. Every day brings more surprises. Reading the House bill I came across a peculiar provision I haven't seen mentioned anywhere. As part of Title ...(read more)
11/25/2009 12:00 AM
This is going to be an abbreviated issue this week to accommodate Thanksgiving.I don't know about you, but I have a lot to be thankful for this year. I ...(read more)
11/20/2009 12:00 AM
With all the public opinion polls going against them and the likelihood of losing a very large number of seats in next year's elections, what in the world ...(read more)
11/17/2009 12:00 AM
Well, now. Since our last visit Mrs. Pelosi did indeed come up with the votes needed to pass her bill in the House. Congratulations are in order. For her, ...(read more)
11/09/2009 12:00 AM
What a week last week was!
First were Tuesday's elections, which should have been a wake-up call for Democrats everywhere. The Democrat establishment tried ...(read more)
11/06/2009 12:00 AM
While President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats studiously avoid consumer-driven health care models for reform, in the real world, among real people, ...(read more)
11/04/2009 12:00 AM
With every iteration the health care "reform" proposals in Congress get worse. The Wall Street Journal calls the current Pelosi proposal the "worst ...(read more)
10/31/2009 12:00 AM
We're keeping it short this week. I'll just note that this is the 200th issue of Consumer Power Report. It's a milestone of sorts, though I have been doing ...(read more)
10/27/2009 12:00 AM
Roy Ramthun and I did a couple of events in Virginia in the past week. About 250 people attended, mostly small business owners with a few insurance brokers. ...(read more)
10/22/2009 12:00 AM
Boy, it is getting to be wacky season in Washington. I am glad to be able to get out of town from time to time. This week I was in Pittsburgh, next week ...(read more)
10/19/2009 12:00 AM
FOR THE PAST YEAR key special-interest groups in Washington have been trying to cooperate with health-reform proposals. Their strategy has been to get a ...(read more)
10/13/2009 12:00 AM
Making a rare appearance on a policy issue, first lady Michelle Obama weighed in on health care the other day. She said she viewed health reform as a women’s ...(read more)
10/09/2009 12:00 AM
First, a bit of context. The CBO has been busy lately. Along with estimating the cost of the Senate Finance "framework," it revealed this week ...(read more)
10/01/2009 12:00 AM
Forgive me for not getting out a newsletter last week. I was in Michigan all week working with the Mackinac Institute to give four speeches in three days.
Meanwhile, ...(read more)
