By Jay Webber _ It won’t surprise any of you to hear that the big-government New Jersey Democrats are back at it again, trying to impose even more rules and regulations that make life in our State more expensive. Washington, DC doesn’t get things right all the time, but recently Republicans there repealed a piece […]
Category: Health
By: Alex Cucciniello _ As if millennials and other young people needed more reasons to flee New Jersey, Governor Phil Murphy is about to give them another one. He is ready to sign legislation recreating the Obamacare health insurance penalty that President Trump and the Republican Congress gratefully freed us from. The legislation is backed […]
TRENTON, N.J. — As New Jersey legislators move to limit the religious exemption for childhood vaccinations and in so doing dramatically expand the potency of the state’s existing school immunization requirements, another bill waiting in the wings is guaranteed to stir the pot even further on this controversial topic. A1847 – sponsored by Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt of […]
The list keeps growing. The flu. Alzheimer’s disease. Breast, colon, cervical and prostate cancer. Homicide, suicide and car accidents combined. The opioid crisis is likely to kill more people than all of these in 2018.
PARSIPPANY – Parsippany-Troy Hills Township Council passed Resolution R2018-044 on Tuesday, March 20. … the Recreational Use of Marijuana in the State of New Jersey,” was passed 3-2. Councilwoman Emily Peterson and Council Vice President Janice McCarthy voted against the resolution. Councilman Michael dePierro Before …
By Bruce Sisler _ Just before Governor Chris Christie left office, he appointed me to the Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital Board of Trustees as a public member. It was an honor and privilege to have the faith and confidence to be considered, let alone chosen, for such an esteemed position. Since Greystone abuts Morris Township, […]
MIAMI — At times, Nikolas Cruz’s behavior could be a school administrator’s nightmare: Teachers and other students said he kicked doors, cursed at teachers, fought with and threatened classmates and brought a backpack with bullets to school. He collected a string of discipline for profanity, disobedience, insubordination and disruption. In 2014, administrators transferred Cruz to […]
By Matt Rooney _ Well, we’ve witnessed yet another gut-churning school shooting, Save Jerseyans, on Valentine’s Day no less, which this time has claimed the lives of at least 17 souls in the Southern Florida community of Parkland. That means it’s also time for yet another gut-churning gun control debate. The Left will lazily point […]
NEW YORK, NY — One day after launching a campaign to unseat U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), former Celgene CEO Bob Hugin, a Republican, visited CNBC to discuss his candidacy and pledge a focus on healthcare reform should he win in November. “I’m going to go to Washington and I’m going to craft specific proposals […]
Did one of the two Republican candidates in NJ-05 help kill Hillarycare, the doomed first term Clinton Administration health care overhaul championed by the former First Lady and considered a precursor of Obamacare? It’s a matter of dispute. This week, attorney and former Cresskill councilman John McCann hit back at supporters of his primary opponent, […]
Former Gov. Donald DiFrancesco said Sunday he will step down at the end of the month as board chairman of New Jersey‘s only public acute-care hospital, amid revelations he had promoted a friend …
Breaking up can be hard to do, Save Jerseynas, but making up can be easy. Such is the case of former close friends Chris Christie and Joe Kyrillos. This week, the Governor appointed the outgoing state senator from LD13 to the board of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, the Garden State’s biggest […]
Obamacare sticker shock: Horizon customers to pay 24 percent more in N.J. next year TRENTON — New Jersey residents who bought their own health coverage from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield through the Affordable Care Act will pay an average of 24 percent more next year, according …
Stymied by Congress and, arguably, his failure to manage difficult-to-corral congressional leaders, President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday morning to threaten executive action on health care: – Since Congress can't get its act together on HealthCare, I will be using the power of the pen to give great HealthCare to many people – […]
Most of the New Jersey political world is still focused on Election 2017, but veteran New Jersey campaigner Steve Lonegan held a press conference on Tuesday to lay into freshman Democrat Josh Gottheimer and highlight his party’s flirtation with a Bernie Sanders championed single payer healthcare bill. Lonegan was joined by a supporter wearing a […]
Bernie Sanders (D-VT) claims the support of 17 Democrats for his single-payer health care bill, Save Jerseyans, but it seems more likely to be on the Democrat platform in 2020 than on President Trump’s desk anytime soon. Republicans are pushing back all the same. “Senator Sanders’ single-payer health care plan is one that my constituents […]