Health Care
The United States has the best, most innovative health care system in the world. Our system has its problems: rising costs and barriers to obtaining insurance for too many. IWV wants positive, patient-centered health care reforms to address problems with the current health care system while preserving the system's best attributes.
Unfortunately, the recently passed health care law moves our country and our health care system in the wrong direction. IWV has been working to highlight the consequences of government- run health care: higher health care costs, more bureaucracy, higher premiums, higher taxes, fewer job opportunities, less access to care and lower quality of care. To learn more about our campaign against the government takeover of health care, click here.
Today, IWV continues to fight to REPEAL the counterproductive health care law and REPLACE it with positive reforms. IWV is working to raise awareness about superior ways to reform the health care system: reforms that put power in the hands of the people, trust patients and doctors to make life-and-death health decisions, and use market forces to control costs and encourage efficiency.
IWV is committed to making this issue a top priority in the coming election, by asking candidates to take this pledge.
To find out more about how you can get involved in our health care campaign, click here.
Latest Health care Stories:
- The Mess In Massachusetts
- Take an Aspirin
- Analysis We Should Have Had Before the Vote
- A Big Winner from the New Health Care Law: The IRS!
- Doctors Want Out of Obama Care
- Wall Street Journal Editorial: The Obamacare Writedowns
- What Can We Do Now?
- Independent Women’s Voice to Release Health Care Poll
- “Liberal” Blog Ad Network Refuses To Advertise SpeakerPelosiHatesThis.com
- Kristol: Reconciliation “Fixes” Make Health Care Reform MORE Politically Toxic
- There’s Still Time to Act. What Are You Waiting For?
- IWV creates SomeMoreEqual.com
- The Brave New World of Government-Run Medicine
- IWV in Daily Caller: There’s No Way to Fix Fundamentally Flawed Bill
- What Women Meeting with the Speaker Should Know
- IWV Op-Ed in The Daily Caller: Voters Ready To Punish Members Who Cave on Health Care
- IWV in POLITICO: Five Ways to Pass or Sink Health Care Reform
- Democrats’ New Math
- IWV in The Washington Examiner: Polls show Democratic health care bill unpopular in key districts
- IWV and the polling company™/ Woman Trend Health Care Poll: 60% of voters in swing districts say start over or stop working on health care altogether
- The Health Care Debate We Should Be Having
- What the White Coats Really Think
- The American Thinker: Killing the best medical system in the world
- Investors Business Daily: 45% Of Doctors Would Consider Quitting If Congress Passes Health Care Overhaul
- Five New Government Bureaucracies Pondering Women’s Health Won’t Improve Women’s Health
- 10 Days To Win on Health Care
- This Is Just The Beginning
- The Real Reason NOW Should Oppose the President’s Health-Care Bill
- Vote Count in the House
- Galen Institute Radio Ad: Scrap Current Bills and Start Meaningful Reform
- Post-Summit: The Fight Is Still On
- Fine, Then It’s Dead
- The Byrd Rule
- Another Terrible Health Care Bill
- IWV In The News: Health Overhaul Foes Kick It Up
- IWV Statement on the Upcoming Health Care Summit
- Activists Step Up Health Care Fight
- A Disingenuous Address
- In The News: Conservatives Take to the States to Block Health Care Overhaul
- The Stakes of the Health Care Debate
- The Poor Would Lose from This “Health Care Reform”
- Better Ways to Improve Health Care
- Vampire Health Care Bill Refuses to Die
- After Massachusetts: Now What?
- An Open Letter to the United States House of Representatives: Support the Health Care Transparency Resolution!
- What’s Possible in Massachusetts is Possible Anywhere
- Gender bias in the Bay State
- SENATE RACE: Turnout lively despite snowfall
- Voters flock to polls
- Voters turn out in MetroWest
- Buyer’s Remorse in Massachusetts
- Coakley adviser memo: D.C. Dems ‘failed’ Coakley
- This Was An Election About Health Care
- Two factors will decide Massachusetts Senate race
- Vote Against Outrageous Union Giveaways
- A Simply Terrible Speaker
- It’s More Than A Senate Seat
- Brown’s run may be model for GOP
- If You Had Any Doubts…
- Hang Down Your Head, Ben Nelson…
- Our System of Government: Changed in the Dark of Night?
- The Power of One
- Thunder on the Left
- Democratic Backbenchers: Please Insist on Regular Legislative Order
- Saturday: Is It Cloture Day?
- The Ben Nelson Extortion Racket
- Precipice: A Situation of Great Peril. No kidding…
- Good News: U.S. Senate Forced to Familiarize Itself With At Least One Amendment
- Precipice: A Situation of Great Peril. No kidding…
- What? Now the LEFT Wants to Dump the Senate Health Bill?
- Reports: Medicare Buy-In Not Even on Life Support
- The Bonnie and Clyde Democrats?
- Today’s Health Haiku
- Hooray! The $400 Billion Tax Hike Is Still There…
- Suicide by the Numbers
- President: It’s Now or Never
- Every Vote Counts
- Do They Even Care What’s in the Bill?
- Progressives on the Warpath
- Monday, Monday
- Dems’ Health Nightmare: Lousy CBO Score, Fleeing Moderates
- Joe Lieberman Won’t Be Getting the “Strange New Respect” Award This Week
- And Now There Are Three
- Awww, Who Needs a Mammogram?
- Emergency Rally: It’s High Noon for Health Care
- Do Anything to Get to 60
- Gosh, Those Dems Sure Hate Lieberman!
- Coming Up: Obama’s Healthcare Arm-Twisting Session
- Less Wild about Harry
- C’mon, GOP, Start Fighting That Bill!
- CNN: 61 Percent of Americans Now Oppose Dems’ Health Plan
- Sky-High Premiums Under the Reid ‘Compromise’
- Today’s Harry Reid-ism: ‘GOP Senators Are Trying to Denigrate Me’
- New Democratic Directive: Don’t Listen to Your Pesky Constituents
- Deal or No Deal?
- The Senate Bill’s Sneaky Death Panels
- HHS Analysts: Senate Bill Will Drive Up Health Costs Even More
- Harry’s Hot-Air ‘Compromise’
- Polls: Support for Congress’s ‘Reform’ Plan Now Under 40 Percent
- Damned the Consequences: Getting to 60 Is All that Matters
- Make History–or BE History?
- OpenLeft: It’s a Victory for the Public Option
- Olympia Snowe’s Bipartisan Wisdom
- Medicare Is Eight Years Away from Bankruptcy–So Let’s Expand It!
- Worst Plan Yet
- Ruthless
- Psych-ops?
- Snowe Nixes Medicare Buy-In, and Lieberman Isn’t Happy, Either
- Reid: We Have a Great Plan but I Can’t Tell You about It
- The Public Option Is Dead–Long Live the Public Option
- New Yorker mag: A Spectre is Haunting Health-Care Reform
- The Charge of the Light Brigade!
- Momentum or Panic?
- Well, At Least the Senate Dems Are Making the Progressives Mad!
- Uh-oh
- Harry’s ‘Happy Hanukkah!’: Senators to Work on the Jewish Holiday
- Mailbox: The Insurance Companies and Health-Care Rankings
- Mailbox: Angela’s Story
- CBO: 10 Million to Lose Employer Health Coverage Under Senate Bill
- Dem Senators Hate Beautiful People
- Macho Email: Not the Right Tone
- Gummed-Up Works on Abortion
- No, It’s Health Care Taking over Government
- Our Dem Senators’ Pork-Tastic Weekend
- Cobblers on the Hill: The Dumbest Idea Yet?
- Nelson Amendment: It Coulld Determine Fate of Legislation
- Conundrum
- The ‘Don’t Check List’–Care You Won’t Be Getting With ‘Reform’
- What??? The Huffington Post Says Forget the Public Option!
- Today’s Harry Reid-ism: ‘GOP = Simon Legree’
- Senate Healthcare ‘Reform’: Acupuncture and Bee-Pollen Pills
- Pressure, Not Persuasion
- Nixon: ‘I Am Not a Crook”; Reid: ‘This is Not Obama’s Waterloo’
- No More Mammograms for Low-Income California Women Under 50
- Sunday Update: Ten Democrats Looking for a Compromise
- Hentoff: Health-Care Proposals Cold-Hearted
- I Can Has Free Healthcare–But I Can’t Find a Doctor
- Uh-Oh: Public Option ‘Compromise’ Meetings
- Who Wants this Legislation?
- Senator Lincoln’s Bad Idea
- Note to Granny: Pay Attention to the Johanns Amendment
- Behind the Strange Mania
- More Victims of Healthcare ‘Reform’: Poor People
- Four Dems Break Ranks on Johanns Amendment: What it means
- Hill Update
- Survey: 90 Percent of Americans Like Their Current Health Coverage
- The First Crack: Vitter of Louisiana
- In Reality, Vitter’s Grandstanding Hurts Women
- Remember, Remember the Third of December
- The Tragedy of David Vitter
- Spinning Higher Premiums, Update
- What Do Medicare Cuts Have in Common with Santa’s Reindeers?
- Busted! The New York Times’s Latest Obamacare Sob Story
- Feds: Pay No Attention to Those Breast Screening Guidelines!
- Murkowski/Mikulski
- Obamacare Will Cut Health Costs? Yeah, Sure
- Throwing the Grand-Kids Under the Bus Along With Granny
- Max Baucus vs. the Real Montana
- Hey, It Worked With Mary Landrieu–Sort Of
- Spinning Higher Premiums
- The Era of Big Government: You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
- Estimate Slightly Off: Like about $5 Trillion
- Hey, Let’s Destroy the Whole Economy!
- The Year of Magical Thinking
- ‘You Lie!,’ Part 616: Illegal Immigrants Would Get Coverage After All
- The Latest From Gallup: Public Rejects Obamacare by 49-44 Percent
- Is Obamacare Unconstitutional?
- Who Is the Latest M.D. to Oppose Obamacare?
- Kill Bills
- Even More Health Things to Be Grateful For
- Be Thankful for the Best Health-Care System in the World–For Now
- Will Obamacare Bankrupt the U.S. in Ten Years?
- Mammogram, Shammogram
- Values & Our Mr. Brooks
- It’s Not a Health Bill–It’s a Pork Bill
- 158 Days Without a Cost Estimate–and Counting
- Today’s Health Haiku
- Rasmussen: Only 38 % Support Obamacare. But Do They Care?
- Why Do You Want that Silly Ol’ Mammogram?
- Live From Death Panel Row
- Malpractice
- Feds Say House Bill Would Increase Health Costs, Ream Seniors
- Mandate Mania
- Like Big Pharma? Then You’ll Love Obamacare
- Coming: The Winter of Our Disinsurance
- Oh, THAT Little Ol’ Thing
- Debate on Hill Shifting Public’s View of Health-Care Responsibilities? Yes. But Not the Way Nancy Hoped…
- It’s the Stupak, Stupid–Feminists’ Abortion Hissy Fit
- Loss of Liberty–Really
- Will the Senate’s Debate Be Better?
- How You Will Pay
- Paglia: ‘De Facto Rationing’ and ‘Brutal Abandonment of the Elderly’
- All the President’s Baksheesh
- Stupak Stirs Up the Pot
- It’s Not about Health Care, Stupid
- Today’s Health Haiku
- Congress to Public: Good for Thee, but Not for Me
- Lords of Entitlement
- Rush, Rush, Rush
- Even the Associated Press Says the House Bill Is DOA 0
- This Opera’s Not Over
- Sausage Time: How a Bill Becomes Law. Or Not
- Terrible Bill Narrowly Passed
- AARP Perpetuates a Stereotype: Old Folks are Dimwits
- So That House Vote Won’t Be Tomorrow After All
- Today’s Health Haiku
- Obamacare–Fat Chance!
- Here’s a Plan That Saves Money–the GOP Plan!
- But I’ll Be Dead by Then
- And Now It’s Up to $2.4 Trillion
- That 1,990-Page Monstrosity Is Now a 2,032-Page Monstrosity
- Silver Lining in a Silver Cloud
- Today’s Health Haiku
- Sneaky Nancy
- More Bureacracies Than Bottles of Beer on the Wall
- Latest Cost Estimate: $1.2 Trillion
- Nancy Pelosi’s Magic Trick: Now You See It–Now You Don’t
- Good News for Slow Readers on the Hill!
- ‘The Worst Bill Ever’
- Numbers That Look Nicer
- Forget Typhoid Mary. Meet the Swine Flu Democrats
- Today’s Health Haiku
- Live Near Washington? Join the Nov. 5 Obamacare Protest!
- ‘Death Panels’ Plus Subsidies for Abortion and Illegal Immigrants!
- Your $1 Trillion at Work: Policing Vending Machines
- It’s Not the Health-Care, Stupid
- Read the Healthcare Bill or Finish ‘Remembrance of Things Past’?
- Fake Offsets
- And You Say the Dems Aren’t in Bed With the Trial Lawyers?
- The Public Option: Let’s Get Real
- A Fate Worse Than the Public Option
- Lighten Up on that Hippocratic Oath!
- Today’s Health Haiku
- 1,990 Pages!
- Joltin’ Joe
- Today’s Health Haiku
- Trashing the Messenger, part 1,896
- A Special Treat: The Organizing for America Video Challenge Contest
- Michelle Bachmann: We of the GOP Got Shut Out
- What a Bill!
- Confucius Say: Read the Bill Before You Vote on It
- What a Difference a Year Makes
- Don’t Say ‘Public Option’–Use a Euphemism
- Calvinists on the Hill
- Today’s Health Haiku
- Public vs. Public Option
- Harry Reid’s Opt-Out: What’s Not to Like? Plenty
- More on Why the Public Doesn’t Like the Public Option
- Pelosi’s Abortion Rock and Abortion Hard Place
- And About Those ‘Immoral’ Insurance Company Profits…
- Robert Samuelson: The Public Option Delusion
- You…Are Disingenuous!
- Current Health-Care Plan May Make You Poorer
- Granny, Go Home!
- Give Me a Public Option or Give Me Death!
- One Little Problem With Obamacare: No More Doctors
- Healthcare Reform Congress-Style vs. Real Healthcare Reform
- Knowledge Is Power
- New Urgent Bill in House: Bad as Old Urgent Bill in House
- Pelosi Still Pushing That Public Option
- Can’t We Please Slow this Thing Down?
- It’s Baaack!
- Does the Public Really Want the Public Option?
- A Cause for Guarded Optimism
- Hey, Americans, Matthew Yglesias Thinks You’re Stupid
- Yet Another Poll Shows Americans Want Obamacare to Go Away
- California, Here We Come!
- Required: Magical Thinking
- Revenge Is Sweet–Ask a Senate Democrat
- No Fix In for the Doctors
- Roller Girl to Boogie for Public Option!
- Why the Maligned PricewaterhouseCoopers Report Matters
- 1,502 Pages!
- The Washington Post Spins Bad News Into Good News
- Dr. Baucus’s Expensive Prescription
- Why Does It Always Boil Down to Getting Rid of Granny?
- New Poll: Only 42 Percent of Americans Want Obamacare
- Redistributing Health Care Costs
- More Funny Budget Tricks!
- Jesus Says: ‘Hey, Let’s Tax Rich People!’
- 250 Pieces of Silver
- Funny Budget Tricks!
- Those Pesky Moderate Democrats
- Oh, and You Thought It Was about Health Care! Silly You!
- Take This Healthcare Bill–Please!
- Inconvenient Truth: Middle Class to Be Soaked
- Administration Honcho to Elderly: ‘We’re Going to Let You Die’
- No More Golden Years
- Insurance Industry Pullout Has Dems in a Tizzy
- Senate Committee Rushes to Vote on Imaginary Bill Today
- 14-9
- When Vanity Calls, Vanity Calls
- And You Thought They Were Just Too Lazy to Post the Darned Thing, Part ll
- Hey, Kids! Get Ready for Downward Mobility!
- Ouch! White House Loses an Ally
- Go Without Health Insurance and Go to Jail
- A Few Leetle Problems
- And You Thought They Were Just too Lazy to Post the Darned Thing
- Uh-Oh, Part 2: The Public Option May Be Back
- Don’t Sign Up Until You Have a Pre-Existing Condition?
- Cheers! The Latest Senate Bill Costs ‘Only’ $829 Billion!
- ‘School Kids Sing For Health Care Reform On Set Of CNN’
- Healthcare Reform That’s Too Simple to Come True
- Been There, Done That, part 2
- Been There, Done That
- Never Too Early Too Tax!
- Uh-Oh, the Baucus Bill Will Actually Cost $2 Trillion
- Pelosi: Oh Yes, There Will Be a Middle-Class Tax Hike
- Hey, Congress!
- Halloween Comes Early at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
- Big Nurse Will Be Watching You
- Please Keep Talking
- One Page
- Needed: A Little Humility
- Our Healthcare’s Rotten–How Come We Won the Nobel Prize?
- ‘I’m Not a Doctor But I Play One in the Rose Garden’
- Want Lower Healthcare Costs? Try the Free Market
- The Strange World of Bobby Jindal
- Obama Doesn’t Think the Public Option Is Dead
- More ‘It’s Not a Tax If We Say It’s Not a Tax’
- We Just Won’t Call It a Tax Increase
- First Let’s Kill All the Republicans
- Senate Dem: Don’t Expect Me to Read the Bill–It’s Too ‘Confusing’!
- I Pledge, I Pledge–Not to Throw Up at Obama-Crazed Celebrities
- Reality Check
- Obama’s Medicare Disadvantage
- Oy!
- Meet Mandate, Son of Option
- Uninsured by Choice
- With Friends Like Michael Moore, Do the Dems Need Enemies?
- If You Have to Ask, You Can’t Afford It
- Through the Looking Glass…
- Americans to Government: We Can Do It Without You
- ‘How American Health Care Killed My Father’
- What’s the Rush?
- Malpractice Reform? Later, Man
- Go to Jail
- A Good Start: Senate Finance Committee Rejects Public Option
- More Unpleasant Surprises for Old Folks in the Baucus Bill
- You Mislead!
- It’s Not About Improving Healthcare–It’s About Lawmakers’ Egos
- Joe the Plumber, Call Your Office
- Mmm, Socialized Food to Go With Your Socialized Medicine
- Kleenex-time?
- Me, Me, Me
- Meet the White House Deadline or People Will Die–Again
- Tort Reform: Pilot Programs Already Exist, Mr. President
- A Novel Way to Become a Jailbird
- Mickey Kaus: How to Use Polls to Hide Opposition to Obamacare
- New, Revised House Bill: Be Even More Afraid
- Senate Bill: Sacrifices for Seniors
- Health Care & Hubris
- That Pesky Democratic Process
- Update: McConnell Denounces Attempt to Stifle Free Speech
- TV Critics to Obama: Give the Tube a Rest
- Who Benefits From Muzzling Humana? Why, It’s AARP!
- Surprises for Seniors! Ho! Ho! Ho!
- Health Care Debacle: Can the Constitution Save Us?
- Single-Payer Paradise: 1 in 6 U.K. Patients Misdiagnosed
- No One Considers Insurance Mandates a Tax? Oh Yeah?
- Yes, It’s a Tax Update
- Baucus Plan also Hard Pill to Swallow
- Stephanopoulos: ‘Uh, Isn’t That Mandate Really a Tax?’
- Born in the USA–right now, you’ll live longer…
- More ‘You Lie!’: Obama’s Insurance Horror Stories
- Hey, Don’t Call It a Tax!
- Pay No Attention to “Merriam’s Dictionary”…
- Advice to Obama on Passing Healthcare Reform: Shut Up!
- Three Non-Lies that Nevertheless Aren’t True
- Another ObamaCare Pipe Dream: Electronic Medical Records
- Dept. of ‘You Lie!,’ Part #6,728
- Uh-oh
- Opposed to Obamacare? You’re a Racist!
- The Obamacare Snowe-Drop
- Having Your Cake, and…
- Bipartisanship Ahoy!
- Dept. of ‘You Lie!”: Bureaucrat-Free Care
- One Little Problem With Obamacare: Doctors Hate It
- Granny Isn’t the Only Loser
- Dept. of Fine Print & Big Picture
- Crystal Ball: You Will Incur a Staggering Debt
- D.C. Examiner to GOP: Don’t Compromise
- Aesop on Healthcare Reform
- Do You Believe Him?
- Sweet Dreams, Granny
- Newsweek: Oh Go Ahead and Kill Granny
- Maureen Dowd Sees Racist People
- Health Insurance Villainy Update
- Small, Insignificant Group Marches in Washington
- High Approval Rating…for US Healthcare System
- Obama: I Own It
- Obama’s Medicare Forked Tongue
- Joe ‘You Lie!’ Wilson Took Dangerous Drug Called No-Doz
- Whoa! I Can’t Sign This Thing. NOT
- Defeat Obamacare…so we can talk about real reform
- AP: Fact-Checking The Speech
- Health Care Overhaul
- The President to the Public: Oh, shut up…
- Sorry, Junior, I Can’t Change Your Diapers–I’m on Strike
- Tonight: The Speech…sigh, another speech
- Obama’s Little Bighorn?
- Fox News: Health Care Reform
- Paglia, Palin, and the Polls: All Say Obamacare Politically Dead
- Olympia Snowe-Job
- Chat Online With the ‘I Hate Health-Care Reform’ Doctor
- NY Times Department of Gullibility: ‘Small Businesses Support Obamacare’
- Twittering on the Trigger
- The ‘Death Panel’ Hospital That Saves a Bundle
- Robert Reich to Obama: Commit Political Suicide
- It Doesn’t Sound Like a Myth to Me
- Not Dying Fast Enough? We’ll Help You–and Cut Costs
- Hey, What if We Drop the Public Option?
- If You Thought the Public Option Was Scary…
- Thomas Frank: Cough Up $1.5 Trillion for ‘Society’!
- One Down: ‘Public Option’ Now Optional
- Too Old for Pain Pills
- Pelosi Doesn’t Understand What Insurance Is
- Dr. Obama Plans to Put You on a Diet
- More on the “Bankruptcy Myth”
- Yes, Bureaucrats Will Come Between You and Your Doctor
- Who Are the Uninsured?
- But Senator Dole….
- Truth to Truth, Part 2: Betsy Markey Lets the Cat Out of the Bag
- Hentoff: We must guard liberty
- Art for Obamacare
- Hippocrates? Who He?
- Howard Dean Speaks Truth to Truth on Tort Reform
- How to Stop Obamacare for $10
- A Tale of Two Town Halls
- Nancy Pelosi Rides Queequeg’s Coffin
- The VA’s Very Own “Death Panels”
- September May be Harder–for Us
- ABC Does It Again–Won’t Run Anti-Obamacare Ad
- Ducking the Question…
- Mainstream Media Admit: Yes, We’re in the Tank for Obamacare
- Silver Lining for Obama: At Least He’s Not Trying to Push Immigration Amnesty
- Doctor’s Bitter Pill
- Keeping Ships Afloat
- Reminder to Grandma: Get Your Pacemaker Now
- Buy Something at Whole Foods Today!
- Palin’s Back for Another Round: Tort Reform
- So Which House Dem Leader Do You Believe?
- Washington Post Poll Finds Support for Obamacare Eroding
- “Our Healthcare System Is Broken”–Come Again?
- Tour Guides
- Think Smaller
- Wanted: A Healthcare Bill Americans Can Read
- God Says: Don’t Kill Your Granny!
- Hey, who’re you calling an ugly American?
- Death Panels? What Death Panels?
- Now You See It, Now You Don’t
- Hey, Nancy–Get a Dictionary!
- Michelle Bernard discusses Obama’s health care plan on Hardball
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