The American health care system is in crisis.  And the Obama administration and Democratic congressional leaders appear determined to make it worse.  How else to explain the backroom deals, midnight votes, and procedural legerdemain which senior Democrats have undertaken in order to enact  a health care bill that no one—not even its most ardent supporters—seems to like very much, and which large swaths of the American public viscerally oppose?

Nevertheless, in just a few hours, the House of Representatives will vote…

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With Democratic support coalescing around Sen. Max Baucus’s (D-Mt.) health care reform proposal, passage of a comprehensive overhaul now appears more likely than ever.  Opponents had their summer of protests.  But, Democrats have shown a renewed sense of energy since discrediting Sarah Palin’s “death panels” and Sen. Charles Grassley’s claim that ObamaCare would “pull the plug on grandma.” Still, while those charges may have been a little overwrought, there is plenty to be concerned about with the Democratic health reform…

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There was a good front page article in yesterday’s Washington Post on the history of advances in medical science and technology.  The conclusion:  Although the costs of treating many serious medical conditions has risen dramatically over the course of the last few decades, most of these cost increases have come hand-in-hand with significant improvements in health outcomes.  Take the article’s discussion of the evolving treatment of heart attacks:

“When I was in medical school, about all we had to offer was oxygen,…

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