If You Like Your Medicare, You Can Keep Your Medicare
Not just Barack Obama, but all politicians promise to protect Medicare—even if they are robbing it to pay for ObamaCare. They don’t promise that you can keep your Medicare doctor, however.
Author: Jane M. Orient, M.D.
Economics · Featured · Government · Health Care
Congress Doesn’t Create Free Markets—It Only Destroys Them
When people clamor for Congress to pass a “free-market health plan,” they are forgetting two things: Congress only does laws, which restrict freedom. We need fewer laws, not more. And the free market is by nature not a plan.
Big laws like ObamaCare are designed by special-interest groups, such as the “insurance” (managed care) cartel, Big Hospitals, Big Pharma, and influential groups that want their benefits (abortion, contraception, drug and alcohol rehab, AIDS therapy, etc.) paid for by people who would never use them.
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Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Government · Health Care
Survival Prospects for ObamaCare in 2015
Now that Republicans have control of Congress, they could possibly keep their promise to repeal ObamaCare—except for two immediate obstacles. One of course is the threat of the Presidential veto. Another is the already apparent willingness of craven politicians to surrender pre-emptively.
GOP Can no Longer Blame Harry Reid for Obamacare
The time for Republican self congratulation is over, and the work needs to begin. It appears that the majority of the voting population recognizes that our country is in dire condition. Time is running out to fix it. Are Republicans going to work for our country, or just shift money around to different special interests?
Will Medicare Become Like the VA?
Most veterans get most of their medical care from private doctors through Medicare or private insurance. Just think what those secret waiting lists would be like if they didn’t! Still,[…]
Healthcare Fixed, on to Climate Change
Now that 8 million or more have signed up on health insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the President is deploying his phone and his pen to solve another urgent problem: climate change. This will require another transformational change that no previous President has been able to bring about, as they were unable to get around a recalcitrant Congress.
Perils in the Air: A Frequent Flyer Physician Reflects on Flight MH 370
The TSA does not make us perfectly safe. I don’t care much about being x-rayed and patted down, but it is not much more helpful than the old, discarded “security” question about whether I packed my own bag. The U.S. could learn from the Israelis and focus on behavior and likely terrorists.
No, ObamaCare Is Not a Conservative Idea
Even as ObamaCare is trying to self destruct, its advocates suggest a détente in which “Republicans recognize the conservative nature of the law,” in the words of Austin Frakt in Bloomberg News. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), they point out, incorporates some ideas from a Heritage Foundation proposal and a law promoted by Mitt Romney. Those are not, however, conservative ideas, much less good ideas, and are not a “sound chassis” for anything.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured
Washington Has It Backward on Defunding ObamaCare
This debate shows how far we have come toward inverting the relationship between American citizens and their government.
No, We Don’t Have a Plan to Blow up the Bridge—or the Healthcare System
Americans have the right to be the master of their fate, and the captain of their soul. The Plan is the enemy, and its replacement is not another Plan, but freedom.
Obama, the Great Defunder
Obama is a great pretender—pretending that all is well with the American economy. We will surely hear from those cronies who are getting funded by his redistributive largesse— and not so much from the invisible ones who are defunded, sucked dry, exhausted, or silenced.
The IRS and Your Health
As Americans watch congressional hearings on the Internal Revenue Service, they should ask themselves what this enormously powerful, corrupt, politically motivated agency might do with its new job of administering[…]
Uninsured May Have Better Access to Care than Medicaid Patients, Survey Shows
Because it may cost more to file a claim than a physician can hope to collect, physicians may lose on every Medicaid patient, and lose less if they just see the patients for free.
Featured · Health Care · Legal Affairs
Doctors Ask: Is a Charting Error a Federal Crime?
Doctors need to know that anything in the medical record can be used against them—as can errors by their own million-dollar attorney.
Medicaid Expansion: Déjà Vu All Over Again
Republican governors are following the script of Obama and Clinton in their campaign strategy for the Medicaid expansion that is needed to implement ObamaCare: The cast of earnest white coats and[…]
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