Senator John Thune (R-S.D) and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) today re-introduced legislation to expand the use of telehealth technology under Medicare to reduce hospital re-admissions in rural and underserved communities across the nation. This technology will allow patients to be more closely monitored using non-invasive technology to help address possible post-hospitalization complications before they result in a re-admission to the hospital.

I had already seen ample evidence since the 2012 election that the “Republican” leadership still doesn’t get it, and is intent in giving the big middle finger to its own documented values and its own base. This latest is simply more evidence of the same: The Republican National Committee has endorsed a plan for amnesty for illegal aliens and “outreach” to homosexuals. The GOP leadership seeks to become more “inclusive” and “tolerant,” even as it alienates its own base.

Rep. Kristi Noem (R-SD) announced today that she has joined a bipartisan group of House members in cosponsoring legislation to approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline by taking the approval out of President Obama’s hands.

Newsmax reports that a poll conducted for The Hill points to what I and many conservatives have been saying all along: the Republican Party has the right answers to fix the mess we’re in, but they’ve spent so many years diddling away the people’s trust in them that the public no longer has confidence that they’ll actually do what they say.

Have you ever wondered how scientists can “know” the earth is 4.5 billion years old? Or that such-and-such rock later is X million or billion years old? Many “scientists” will tell you that radiometric dating proves the earth is 4.5 billion years old and that rock later such-and-such is X million or billion years old. I used to believe this, and perhaps you still do today. But there is something you need to know: assumption is not the same thing as fact.

Free trade is beneficial, but first you must understand that “Voluntary trade benefits both sides.” Anyone who has taken a basic macroeconomics course has listened to, repeated and written this maxim dozens of times. Yet many people simply don’t believe it. They admit it can theoretically have its benefits, but believe in practice it is riddled with negative consequences, especially for America. Let’s examine their four chief complaints.

The Progressives in both parties may be the establishment now, but they have always been and continue to be revolutionaries seeking to turn the American dream into a socialist nightmare. Although we shall not go gently into that good night it appears we are in the twilight of our republic and about to enter the sunset of liberty and the dawn of an America with a living constitution, a herd mentality, and a cradle-to-grave welfare state.

“How can an insurance company decide what the patient needs?” My answer would be because Medicare Part D law and regulations allow them to do that. Medicare Part D was supposed to help senior citizens. But, from the very start of it, I realized that it would hassle and hurt seniors even more.

Clients from what was Yugoslavia visited my office on March 7, 2013. They brought papers about an unpaid bill for therapy for the woman after she had surgery. They wanted to know why they were getting bills to pay despite the fact that the woman had both Medicare and a Medicare supplement insurance policy to cover these bills. I reviewed the papers with the woman and phoned her insurance company to learn what it knew of the unpaid bills. The answer did not surprise me.