PolicyBytes

As the national debt clock ticks away in Tampa, it forces us to begin to ask, what comes after "trillion."

While the left may disagree over whether Paul Ryan's Medicare reform plan is the right direction, there are at least five undeniable facts that even they should concede.

It’s a pattern we’ve seen consistently for decades: Liberals pushing policies that increase unemployment, and ultimately impoverish, low-skilled workers.  It’s enough to make one wonder why liberals hate them so much.

If those on disability were a state, it would be the 12^th largest state in the country.

The president wants to blame the “rich” and tax policy for what he sees as a decline of the middle class, but no one has done more to hurt the middle class than the president’s policies.

If a president’s going to have a legacy, constantly being associated with tax cuts is a pretty good one.

Real health care reform is happening, not in Congress or the Supreme Court, but in the eHealth explosion.

Had the health insurers stood up for free market principles and defended long-held actuarial principles for underwriting risk, the country might have avoided the ObamaCare nightmare.

While we all may agree that certain people are rich, determining where to draw the line-and what should be included in the calculation-is both difficult and arbitrary.

Counterfeit drugs are here and will only grow unless Congress and the FDA devise a better way to monitor prescription drugs from inception to ingestion.