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Video: When Coolness Fails

Relevance: 67%      Posted on: December 28, 2013

Selling Obamacare turns out to be not as easy as its devisers thought. The folks at PJ Media have some thoughts: http://youtu.be/3K2XeYuAxIA

Demanding Demand

Relevance: 66%      Posted on: March 31, 2014

Midnight tonight marks another witching hour for Obamacare: the deadline for individuals to sign up for insurance on the federal and state exchanges. Well, sorta . . . kinda. The deadline was extended last week. The dominant feature of the misnamed Affordable Care Act's tedious rollout has been the incessant…

Townhall: Stupid Is As Stupid Says

Relevance: 66%      Posted on: December 14, 2014

What we learn when an insider blurts out the impolitic truth. Click on over to Townhall. Then come back here for more reading, or discussion, below. Wikipedia: King v. Burwell Politico: “Will Jonathan Gruber Topple Obamacare?” by David Nather YouTube: “Lack of transparency is a huge advantage," starring Gruber himself

Same Ol’ Blame Game

Relevance: 65%      Posted on: November 13, 2013

On Fox’s The Five last night, the subject of whom to blame for the Obamacare debacle came up. Bob Beckel thought the Republicans should apologize to the Democrats: Republicans had messed up Obamacare. Greg Gutfeld was incredulous, and told Bob to shut up. Not good form, that. There’s no point…

Tough Luck, Chumps

Relevance: 65%      Posted on: February 16, 2017

Advertised as a big deal ahead of time, the debate didn’t get much play afterwards. Especially from the Left blogosphere. Why? Billed as about the “future of ObamaCare,” it was really about what should replace ObamaCare. The CNN debate pitted Sen. Ted Cruz, well-known Republican opponent of the Affordable Care…

Got Ads?

Relevance: 64%      Posted on: November 20, 2013

First the hush-hush secrecy; then the lies. Now something even . . . worse? President Barack Obama doesn’t think the American people can handle the truth. Neither do several progressive non-profit groups in Colorado that have produced a plethora of cringe-worthy ads promoting Obamacare. One print ad, “Let’s Get Physical,”…

The Race Card, Again

Relevance: 63%      Posted on: November 29, 2013

Are persons necessarily racist if (a) white and (b) opposed to expansion of the welfare state — that is, merely for opposing such expansion? In the New York Times, journalism professor Thomas Edsall, echoing a now-familiar charge, implies as though it were self-evident that many who oppose Obamacare-ized medicine do…

Rand Paul Promises a Quick End to (and Replacement of) ObamaCare

Relevance: 63%      Posted on: February 25, 2017

The replacement for ObamaCare that Rand Paul is pushing looks a lot better than his previous statements had led some of us* ... to fear: https://youtu.be/OjDfN-O0vZQ It is mainly a freeing up of the system. Mainly. It is government getting out of the way. Of course, it is packaged so…

Video: A Freer Market in Medicine?

Relevance: 62%      Posted on: August 29, 2015

John C. Goodman, of the Independent Institute, has been studying and writing about health care and government policy for a long time. Here he sketches a way out of the current impasse, which is not just an “ObamaCare” problem: https://youtu.be/P5OCzNvgUK0

Video: Obamacare in Oregon, with Guitar and Four Cellos

Relevance: 61%      Posted on: July 13, 2013

The organization setting up the "health care exchange" in Oregon is spending a lot of money on advertising, to help make Obamacare more palatable to skeptics in the Beaver State . . . or at least help proponents feel better about it. http://youtu.be/xVUJNEDpEkg Does this song do anything for you?…