Pitfalls of Medicaid Expansion
Medicaid expansion is an expensive endeavor that studies show does not provide better or more-affordable health care. Many of the expansion plans that Pennsylvania legislators are considering would use federal[...]
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Featured · Health Care · Politics · Regulation
Obamacare Shows America Suffers From A President Dangerously Disconnected From Reality
The doctor for Frank Alfisi told his daughter Amy, ‘You can thank Mr. Obama for this.’ The death by Obamacare has already begun.
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In Defense of the Uninsured
Health insurance is the most important thing on the face of the earth — more important than food, more important than clothing, or housing, or a job, and certainly more important than cell phones and cable TV, according to the President.
With this contemptuous attitude towards the people the elite is trying to “help” perhaps it is not surprising that the helpees are not behaving the way the helpers would like them to. Amy Goldstein writes in the Washington Post that “Health insurance marketplaces (are) signing up few uninsured Americans…”
New Rules Could Undermine Successful Medicare Part D Program
A new effort by the Obama Administration to change the Medicare Part D prescription drug program by imposing new rules on how the plans are set up and managed risk[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Government
The Financial Collapse of America
As a longtime book reviewer, I have read a growing stack of books warning about a financial collapse, but Holland’s book is not only based in the actual debt, but is written in a manner that even a person who has no knowledge of this issue can understand.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
A Bad Budget Deal Compared to What?
Paul Ryan gives GOP a short-term win. But has the “Stupid Party” snatched defeat from the jaws of victory … again?
Economics · Featured · Politics · Random
Obama’s Shallow Inequality Speech And The Presidency That Might Have Been
President Obama’s speech yesterday on inequality is being lauded as one of the best of his life, by people who paid attention to it. It’s a sad speech to read, in some sense, since it contains within it the promise of a presidency that we never saw come to fruition – the sort of policy effort that might have been launched to bipartisan success in the first year of his presidency, instead of his effort on Obamacare.
Featured · Government · Health Care · Politics
Here’s The One Crazy Thing Barack Obama Can Do To Save Obamacare
We’ve passed the administration’s deadline, and Obamacare still isn’t fixed.
Ten Obamacare Talking Points To Ruin Your Thanksgiving
President Obama has done a lot of things I dislike, but ruining Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner is a bit much. And to let him be clear: that’s exactly what he’s doing.
Featured · Government · Internet/Telecom
Countless Government Operator Errors – And Obama Wants to Give Us More
We are currently hobbled by a whole host of federal government debacles. An endless litany of Government Operator Errors (GOEs). Many are chronic.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
Entitlement Reform, Tea Party Style
This is a true Tea Party agenda that should be the Republican agenda, and the true American Kennedy Democrat agenda.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Government · Taxes
“Supplemental” Poverty Measure Shows Uneven Redistribution of Poverty by Government
The release of a supplemental poverty measure by the Census Bureau is being touted as the government is not doing enough to ameliorate poverty in the country… But the real problem is that the government is already doing too much.
The Biggest Failure of Obamacare: Increasing the Number of Uninsured
The biggest failure of Obamacare isn’t the website.
Why North Carolina Teachers Can’t Feed Their Kids: No, It’s Not a Right Wing Plot.
For twenty weeks now, a diminishing troupe has gathered for “Moral Mondays” to protest the outcomes of North Carolina’s first Republican-led legislative session in 150 years. This spring, 2,000 or so people showed up for Moral Mondays protests at the state capitol, and more than 900 have been arrested for disrupting the legislature. On September 23, they numbered about 60.
Featured · Health Care · Media
Will the Nov. 30 Deadline Promise be the Straw That Broke the Camel’s Back?
Kathleen Sebelius indicated that “significant improvements” have already been made and that administration officials vowed to have [healthcare.gov] fully repaired by Nov. 30, and fully workable in time for users to buy the coverage that takes effect on January 1st.
Brit Gov Health Care Website: Nine Years, $15 Billion And Counting- Site Scrapped
ObamaCare is a disaster. It is doing incredible damage to our nation – well beyond just the health insurance sector. Just about everything President Barack Obama and his fellow zealot ideologue cheerleaders promised it would deliver was an exact-opposite lie.
Universal Health Insurance Lie
There are many things that might have been done to reform healthcare in the United States after Barack Obama was elected. The Affordable Care Act does begin to address some of these problems.. but only one small segment of one portion.
Economics · Featured · Health Care · Liberty · Regulation · Taxes
A Short Guide to Obamacare
It’s not a national healthcare system. It’s not the free market. It isn’t what we’ve had for the last forty years. So what is Obamacare? Maybe I am too late[...]
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.
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Readable Links- Kirsten Powers: Liberals' mob rule
- Charles Krauthammer: Thought police on patrol - The Washington Post
- Thoughtcrime at Mozilla — Jonathan Last Online
- A Conversation Between Milton Friedman and Gary Becker
- Organic activists need GMOs now more than ever
- Bullies drove Eich from public square: Column
- Jonah Goldberg: Climate activists uncaged
