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Relevance: 100% Posted on: April 24, 2016
A serious blow to Obamacare? Over at Townhall, the prospect of a major U.S. government program self-destroying in front of out eyes. What will we make of it? Click on over. Then come back here. For a few more assays: Obamacare Failures On the Rise by Michael Shannon | Friday,…
Relevance: 97% Posted on: September 1, 2013
Addicts all? No, but as a "body politic" we sure seem addicted to government. It should come as no shock to realize that this addiction has hit the industry from which the metaphor arises. Take a look at Townhall.com this weekend. Regular readers may notice that the Common Sense column…
Relevance: 90% Posted on: December 18, 2013
Is non-compliance the answer? I recently discussed how sheriffs in Colorado and elsewhere are refusing to cooperate with oppressive new laws, in their case farcical gun-control laws. Can we find similar inspiration in other fields? Yes. Consider the medical industry. Despite the Supreme Court decision okaying some of Obamacare’s key…
Relevance: 88% Posted on: January 8, 2017
Just how deep in whose mess are we in? Click on over to Townhall for an answer. Then come back here. Melanie Hunter, CNS — Schumer: GOP Plan to Repeal Obamacare ‘Will Make America Sick Again’ AM New York — Trump’s Tweets: ObamaCare Was a Lie, Schumer Is Democrats’ Head…
Relevance: 87% Posted on: November 17, 2013
The biggest story of the week is turning into the biggest story of the month, the year, perhaps the decade. The much-heralded, much-despised "Obamacare" reform has had a great fall. What are the chances for the king's henchmen to put it back, intact, on the wall? Not high, not at…
Relevance: 84% Posted on: September 4, 2013
Sometimes people rush to support the destruction of their freedom (and that of others), then become shocked to learn how destructive such destruction can be. Businessman and “left-leaning activist” Link Christensen, former advocate of Obamacare, once cheered this sweeping assault on what remains of our medical freedom because “it sounded…
Relevance: 81% Posted on: June 25, 2017
Our politicians are addicts. Not on drugs, exactly (though that is probably true in some cases), but on . . . well, click over to Townhall.com for the full argument. It may be something you want to share with your friends. You know, like a needle pizza. This weekend’s column is an expansion…
Relevance: 80% Posted on: April 8, 2014
Hurray! Waiting for hours! Problems! Snags! As a sign-up deadline approached, Obamacare administrators heralded the long lines people endured to apply for a permitted insurance policy. The lines supposedly proved Obamacare’s invulnerable popularity. Had officials not been told about the new penalties for taxpayers who lack insurance? That millions have…
Relevance: 78% Posted on: October 1, 2013
Democrats and their many shills in the major media decry Republican intransigence and “absolutism” on the “settled matter” (un)popularly known as Obamacare. Yesterday, rather than give an inch to the House Republicans they accuse of intransigence, Senate Democrats voted to uphold the Affordable Care Act, including their own special exemption…
Relevance: 75% Posted on: April 13, 2011
Has Congress rescinded the Obamacare yet? No? Bad news if you favor free-market medicine. Nifty news if you’re a doddering corporate dinosaur of old media — like the Washington Post and CBS New and NBC News — with millions, or billions, in the kitty. And zero compunction about holding out…
Relevance: 74% Posted on: April 25, 2013
Former friends of Obamacare keep discovering that the law treats them as enemies. Three years after Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, Kinsey Robinson, president of United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers International, says that many provisions “were not fully conceived, resulting in unintended consequences . . .…
Relevance: 74% Posted on: December 5, 2013
Getting rid of Obamacare has proved not so easy. The GOP House majority, won in late 2010, voted dozens of times to get rid of the program, but without Senate support to pile on (much less override a presidential veto), they could vote to repeal every day of the year…
Relevance: 73% Posted on: February 16, 2014
Give people money, or services free of charge, and (shock of all shocks) they will do things with them ... and even go so far as to change their behavior to keep getting more and more freebies. Click on over to Townhall.com, for this weekend’s dosage of Econ 101 —…
Relevance: 73% Posted on: October 11, 2013
Who says signing up for Obamacare is all snarls and snafus? Thirty-year-old law student Brian Mahoney already had a high-deductible, low-premium insurance plan. But the day the Obamacare exchanges went online, he decided to check it out. For him, unlike thousands of others, signing up was easy. Great. Except that…
Relevance: 72% Posted on: October 9, 2013
“Consider that just a couple of weeks ago, Apple rolled out a new mobile operating system, and within days, they found a glitch, so they fixed it,” President Obama recently told an audience. “I don’t remember anybody suggesting Apple should stop selling iPhones or iPads or threatening to shut down…
Relevance: 72% Posted on: November 16, 2013
This is a pretty good breakdown of what Obamacare is/was and why it was a bad idea from the start:
Relevance: 70% Posted on: February 21, 2014
There is an argument for taxing the poor. Net beneficiaries of taxation can think about government in a different way than net payers. They might begin to think like children, not like adult supporters of a shared enterprise in defense of the basic institutional framework that in turn supports civilization.…
Relevance: 70% Posted on: October 31, 2013
So, wait, Obamacare is not free? Pre-Obamacare, George Schwab paid $228 a month for health insurance. Now he must pay $1,208 a month for a comparable plan. “The president told the American people numerous times that ‘If you like your coverage, you can keep it.’ How can we keep it…
Relevance: 68% Posted on: June 24, 2017
The ongoing ObamaCare Repeal fiasco, Dr. Rand Paul explaining: https://youtu.be/TPeafkU9Zgo
Relevance: 67% Posted on: February 13, 2014
A reader named Gert, commenting at National Review Online, repeats a notion heard often enough to become cliché. Gert suggests that to debate Obamacare is “terribly premature. We just don’t have the data to know how it’s working yet.” Give it a chance to play out a bit more. Meantime,…
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
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…
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
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…
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…
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,”…
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…
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…
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
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?…
Relevance: 61% Posted on: January 21, 2011
The current battle over “health care reform” is a great example of why representative government frustrates. It’s not just that the vast majority of Americans who oppose the Democrats’ bill didn’t get their way. It’s that the proponents of socialized medicine (and that’s the real goal, here: The eventual complete…
Relevance: 61% Posted on: July 9, 2012
According to a majority on the Supreme Court, Obamacare’s penalty for not buying medical insurance is constitutional because it’s a “tax,” not a “penalty.” Hmmm. All taxes may penalize, and penalties sure can be “taxing,” but this similarity doesn’t give us license to swap one for the other. Chief Justice…
Relevance: 61% Posted on: December 12, 2011
Some “unintended consequences” aren’t. The order of the market is an unintended consequence of market participation. By buying and selling, we’re just trying to get what we want. But we also send signals that help other folks accommodate our values and plans, which then allows markets to form some semblance…
Relevance: 59% Posted on: January 9, 2015
According to Vice President Joe Biden, the debate is over. Health care, by which he means medical assistance, is a basic right — to be obtained through government, and made effective by the Affordable Care Act — not a “privilege.” By “right” he means “something others are forced to provide,”…
Relevance: 59% Posted on: August 8, 2012
If you’re like me, you often rub up against common opinion and find little sense in it — or, as I like to put it, popular opinion with the common sense bled out of it. On Monday I reported on an anti-Obamacare lawsuit against the federal government for mandating the…
Relevance: 59% Posted on: June 6, 2011
Those who insist that RomneyCare isn’t as bad as ObamaCare need a reality check. Both impose new price controls; both impose new taxpayer-funded subsidies; both force people to buy health insurance; both massively expand government interference in our lives. Former Governor Mitt Romney seemed to acknowledge the similarities when he…
Relevance: 59% Posted on: August 26, 2013
Not everything in Dr. Obama’s garden is coming up roses. Even erstwhile — or perhaps masochistic — supporters of the thorny “Obamacare” legislation have sought exemptions from its costs and mandates, or complained about its “unexpected” destructive impact. The AFL-CIO, for example, laments that employers otherwise subject to Obamacare mandates…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: November 19, 2014
“Stupid is as stupid does,” said the great American prophet, Forrest Gump. Meanwhile, Obamacare maestro and MIT professor, the illustrious Dr. Jonathan Gruber, has declared in not one but a multitude of videos that the American people are, well, “stupid.” You see, when the elites wielding political power lie to…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: March 27, 2017
It took awhile for the Obama Administration to accept the term “ObamaCare.” Nancy Pelosi was the initial driver of the massive scheme to permanently alter American medicine and insurance, and “PelosiCare” would have been a fit moniker for the wildly mis-named “Affordable Care Act.” But the administration put the whole…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: October 25, 2013
From the beginning, Democrats urged us to reserve judgment about their beloved “Affordable Care Act.” Wait, they said, until enacted . . . “to find out what’s in it.” Then they said: wait till we see how it works. Now, they tell us to wait some more, while they figure…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: September 7, 2017
Republican politicians, who had been running since 2010 on killing ObamaCare, did not. Not when they had a chance. Despite dominating Congress, they failed, because they opted for a goofy way to do it (the House’s AHCA plan being a terrible mess, probably worse than the monster it was trying…
Relevance: 57% Posted on: September 19, 2011
“We shouldn’t have to leave our country to have a reasonable health care system,” says Eric O’Keefe, chair of the Health Care Compact Alliance. I agree, but what to do with Obamacare, at present secure from repeal? O’Keefe points out that Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution permits states…
Relevance: 57% Posted on: January 9, 2017
“Republicans would create chaos in the health care system because they are stuck,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says, “between a rock and a cliché.” Oh. Off by a word or two. But I don’t need to fix it. What needs to be fixed is the whole system. “Head clown”*…
Relevance: 57% Posted on: January 26, 2017
Obamacare may be on the way out. According to The Atlantic, “the powers of the incoming Health and Human Services secretary are broad enough to cripple the [Affordable Care Act] so it has to be replaced.” Which is significant since the new President has just “signed an executive order empowering…
Relevance: 57% Posted on: January 29, 2013
When you make it harder to hire people—as Obamacare does by imposing penalties on companies that fail to provide specified health insurance—you make it more unlikely that persons will be hired. Consider the case of Automation Systems Inc., reported at National Review Online. After the economy went into a nose…
Relevance: 57% Posted on: October 23, 2013
The spectacular failure of Healthcare.gov to sign people up for the much-promised easy-to-access “healthcare” plans, has now gone mainstream. So, how bad is it? Worse than Windows 8? Just as I know of no one, personally, who has bought a medical coverage package through the new Obamacare system, I also…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: July 31, 2017
We all know the truth: Partisan “warfare” yields the usual war casualty, truth itself. Now, because of the increasing weight of federal government presence in healthcare markets, partisan untruth incurs medical costs. Take the goofy Republican plan(s) to “repeal and replace” ObamaCare — pushed with so many half-truths and downright…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: October 7, 2013
The New York Times has a timeline of the progress of Obamacare. It’s okay as far as it goes. Which is not too far, since only the most recent dates seem readily accessible. And since the Times editors blindly favor the Obama-assault. But sure, labor leaders have both criticized and…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: October 8, 2013
The Obama Administration won’t say how many Americans have successfully navigated the online sign-up during last week’s grand opening of the Affordable Care Act healthcare exchanges . . . if anyone. To quell the media manhunt, the White House tweeted that Chad Henderson, a mild-mannered 21-year-old Georgia college student with…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: April 25, 2016
Last Wednesday, UnitedHealthcare Group Incorporated (UNH) announced that it will drop coverage of plans under Obamacare in all but a few states by 2017. The market signaled a thumb’s up: UNH stock prices shot up over 2 percent. The company, described in the news, somewhat vaguely, as the country’s largest insurer, is…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: January 23, 2013
I don’t know what the optimum ratio of employees to independent contractors would be. No one does. But we can be pretty certain that the current skewing of the economy towards less wage employment and more independent contracting by Obamacare is not a good thing. You see, “one consequence” of…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: January 20, 2011
Government grows by a ratchet effect. When Democrats gained unified control over Congress and the Executive Branch in 2009 they understandably moved to increase the size and scope of government, rather than, say, swiftly follow through with President Obama’s various promises to withdraw from foreign interventions. Adding new stuff? More…
Relevance: 55% Posted on: April 16, 2014
If an email popped up offering free money, what would you do? Delete it? And wonder how it got past your spam filter? Me, too. Well, some Washington wags — call them re-distribution professionals — say we’re crazy. As are Republicans in the 19 states that have refused to expand…
Relevance: 54% Posted on: December 20, 2013
The pitches aired in service of Obamacare have descended from the twee and lightly vulgar to worse than disastrously kitschy and outrageously camp. The latest example is not the pajama boy icon for Obamacare, a young man wearing a onesie and demonstrating all the manliness of Peter Pan. Of that,…
Relevance: 54% Posted on: August 2, 2012
If political dishonesty were an Olympic sport, Missouri State Rep. Scott Largent would qualify for the medal round. In a campaign mailer sent to voters in Missouri’s 31st state senate district just ahead of the August 7th GOP primary, Largent’s campaign attacks opponent Ed Emery for “Standing With Barack Obama…
Relevance: 54% Posted on: April 30, 2017
Oh, what will we do? The socialists in the United Nations do not approve of an American policy proposal... Click on over to Townhall. Then come back here for more info: YouTube: EF Hutton Commercial Washington Post: “Apparently repealing Obamacare could violate international law” by Dana Milbank Washington Post: Letter…
Relevance: 54% Posted on: November 12, 2013
Government incompetence is no mystery. It’s very similar to government competence: throw enough money at a problem and something will happen. It may not be what you want, or what you expected, but something will indeed happen. The ObamaCare rollout is a grand example of governmental hubris and incompetence, as…
Relevance: 53% Posted on: May 20, 2014
In his 2012 State of the Union speech, President Obama declared, “It’s time to apply the same rules from top to bottom: No bailouts, no handouts and no cop-outs.” Yes. He said that. But in reality, the handouts and cop-outs have kept on coming, like the solar wind. A Washington…
Relevance: 53% Posted on: October 21, 2013
The Pelosi-Obama Affordable Care Act was passed as a pig-in-a-poke. Now with that poke open, with the pig fully emergent as of next year, what do we know about “Obamacare”? It’s not socialized medicine, but it is heavily regulated- and subsidized-medicine, almost designed not to work. Its inevitable failures will…
Relevance: 53% Posted on: June 18, 2012
“Today, government at all levels consumes 37 percent of the total economy, or GDP,” Mitt Romney said earlier this month. “If Obamacare is allowed to stand, government will reach half of the American economy.” Glenn Kessler’s Fact Checker column at the Washington Post slapped that statement with four “Pinocchios,” the…
Relevance: 52% Posted on: March 14, 2012
Getting good estimates is not easy. Anyone who’s hired a contractor knows to make sure the estimates are sound by insisting that bidders stick to their estimates. This is not what happens in government, though. Projects almost always start out with a whopping figure for an estimate . . .…
Relevance: 52% Posted on: July 20, 2017
“Polling on every possible option confounds all logic,” or so writes Tiana Lowe about ObamaCare and its repeal, at National Review. “Americans overwhelmingly dislike the individual mandate and prioritize lowering the cost of health care over all other health problems in the country,” Ms. Lowe elaborates, “but a majority of…
Relevance: 52% Posted on: April 9, 2010
After a year-long battle, congressional Democrats have rammed through Obamacare, a massive expansion of government control over the health care industry and a massive assault on the liberties of every doctor, patient, insurance agent, and taxpayer in the country. But the issue is far from settled. So, let’s use this…
Relevance: 51% Posted on: July 17, 2017
You’ve heard the adage: “the perfect is the enemy of the good.” This can be true in politics, where opposing an ameliorating reform because it is not ideal means, sometimes, getting stuck with unmitigated policy disasters. But there’s a corollary: in politics the worst is likely to emerge . .…
Relevance: 51% Posted on: April 30, 2016
On Wednesday, UnitedHealthcare Group Incorporated (UNH) announced that it will drop coverage of plans under Obamacare in all but a few states by 2017. The stock market signaled a thumb’s up immediately after the announcement: UNH stock prices went up over 2 percent. The company, described in the news, somewhat vaguely, as…
Relevance: 50% Posted on: February 4, 2010
After Scott Brown captured the U.S. Senate seat Ted Kennedy had occupied for decades, we heard two different views of the event. One said the surprise victory of an obscure state senator over the anointed Democrat in such a Democrat-leaning state had much to do with growing antagonism to runaway…
Relevance: 50% Posted on: August 7, 2013
Not everything new is wonderful. When a company improves its operations, it seeks to do so in a way that decreases costs or produces features customers want enough to pay for. It works to ensure that the benefits of adopting new procedures outweigh the costs. At least, this is what…
Relevance: 50% Posted on: March 23, 2010
By hook and by crook — ignoring the constitution and twisting parliamentary rules — the president and his congressional allies are succeeding in imposing command-and-control health care on all Americans. If the new law is allowed to stand, the scraps of freedom we still enjoy in matters of health care…
Relevance: 50% Posted on: June 28, 2012
With the Supreme Court’s decision in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has achieved its first milestone: The repudiation of logic, the Orwellian assertion that A both is and is not A. The reform package, popularly known as Obamacare, requires that individuals…
Relevance: 49% Posted on: March 3, 2011
Loathe handcuffs and leg irons? No problem. We’ll adjust the restraints slightly. Shave a gram off the weight. Paint them a new color. And throw away the key. Feel liberated? Nobody in a chain gang would be fooled. But the Obama Administration expects phony “concessions” in the implementation of last…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: July 13, 2012
It’s a race against time. Obamacare is going into effect, piece by piece, link by link, yard by yard. The idea when legislating big programs such as this is to push up as many benefits as possible early in the timeline, and shove the burdens as far down the road…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: September 25, 2013
Senator Ted Cruz’s non-filibuster filibuster, monopolizing the Senate floor for the ninth hour as I type these words, is easy to characterize — if you are Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert. Easy to make fun of, especially when the senator read Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham as a bedtime…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: February 25, 2013
When in the fight for liberty should one give up? Never. Contrary to deterministic notions of social change, there’s nothing inevitable or permanent about any loss of our freedom. What then should we make of the words of Daily Debate scrivener Robert Tracinski? Noting criticism of Florida Governor Rick Scott…
Relevance: 47% Posted on: June 23, 2017
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) has introduced a bill to compromise between the House’s recent Affordable Health Care Act and the current “ObamaCare” Affordable Care Act. Though there seems to be some “what the heck, go with it” enthusiasm for it on Capitol Hill, it’s not coming from Senators…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: December 16, 2014
Lying liars lie even about incidental lapses into truth. In a double insult, economics professor and political hack Jonathan Gruber has now apologized—not to us, to Congress—for boasting about how clever was the opaque legislative process used to dupe us “stupid” voters about the true nature of Obamacare. Gruber has…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: September 11, 2012
As the campaign for the presidency heats up, we’re going to hear the words “taxes” and “deficit” and “spending” repeated ad nauseam. And this number: $716,000,000,000. That’s the amount of future Medicare spending that President Obama and the Democrats in Congress (exclusively, without a single Republican vote) cut, slashed, ripped,…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: February 11, 2014
“Moving on from unfulfilling jobs, thanks to health-care law,” was the gleeful headline* on the story spoon-fed to The Washington Post by Families USA, a pro-Obamacare group that maintains a “database of people who have benefitted” from the law (a pretty easy gig, no doubt). Polly Lower quit her job…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: August 6, 2012
If political dishonesty were an Olympic sport, Missouri State Rep. Scott Largent would qualify for the medal round. Rep. Largent has served two terms in the state’s lower house, representing the 120th District. Now he’s running as a “consistent conservative” in a three-way race in the newly redistricted Senate District…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: November 21, 2013
To solve our problems, we need the freedom — to plan, to create, to market and profit. We need the freedom to use the capital we gain by solving problems — whether the capital comes in the form of money, knowledge, or reputation — to solve other problems. That’s as…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: December 10, 2014
MIT economist Jonathan Gruber has had a big influence on American life, much of it “behind the scenes.” He helped put together RomneyCare in Massachusetts, then Obamacare at the federal level. And he made a curious case for abortion that was picked up by Steven Levitt and made famous in…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: March 16, 2017
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan insists that his “TrumpCare” plan to replace ObamaCare will decrease medical insurance rates. Others argue that his American Health Care Act will increase those rates. Likewise, he expects it to reduce strain on federal budgets; others deny this outright. The “coverage” issue is just…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: June 25, 2012
Waiting for this week’s Supreme Court decision on Obamacare, which most folks expect to strike down the mandate and perhaps the entire law, George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley argues in the Washington Post that the court should be expanded from nine justices to 19. FDR, no doubt sitting…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: March 7, 2012
Some things I just “don’t get.” How can either pro-lifers or Obamacare opponents trust Mitt Romney? Sure, he says he’s pro-life and he pledges to repeal the Democrats’ health care reform package. But for years he said he was for abortion rights; he switched in what’s been called a “flip-flop-flip”…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: May 21, 2013
Senator Lamar Alexander compares the latest Obama administration scandal to Iran-Contra . . . he says it’s “even bigger.” One hates to continually harp on the president and his scandals, but he and his big government keep producing them. So here we go again! Obamacare was supposed to save money.…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: November 27, 2012
Two stories courtesy of Reason’s Hit and Run startled me into thinking about the strange issues that come up when you put government in charge. Peter Suderman covered another Supreme Court review of Obamacare, featuring Liberty University’s claim that Congress overstepped its authority in mandating employer coverage of specific insurance…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: January 14, 2014
One of the great things about the Obamacare fiasco is that we get to revisit many of the left’s talking points for the last half-century and more — and hand the points right back, underlined. How many times have we heard about market failure? A relentless litany. Today’s topic? Government…
Relevance: 41% Posted on: May 29, 2013
Any number of economists will tell you that medicine just has to be different from other goods and services provided on the market. They will offer elaborate theories to explain, for instance, why competitive markets won’t work for health care, and why more government is necessary, and why, in fact,…
Relevance: 41% Posted on: December 13, 2015
On Saturday, we regaled you with the video clip of Gov. John Kasich, more than straddling the proverbial fence, indeed . . . jumping around it like a rodeo clown — or perhaps someone in a tad less control. Today, at Townhall.com, we aim to edify . . . with an analysis…
Relevance: 41% Posted on: June 6, 2012
In 1947, at the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, the free-market conference in Switzerland, august Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises harrumphed that young Milton Friedman and many other budding anti-socialists of those dark days of mid-century Western culture were, in reality, “all a bunch of socialists.” Mises stormed…
Relevance: 41% Posted on: November 22, 2013
We’re past Day 195 of the IRS scandal. I mean the one about how IRS agents processing applications for tax-exempt status gave an especially hard time to Tea Party and similar groups, asking endless intrusive questions and delaying legitimate tax-exempt status for years or never granting it at all. The…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: February 18, 2015
“Is repealing the Affordable Care Act an issue of manhood?” asks Alan Rappeport in the New York Times. He’s referring to the “macho language” in a resolution introduced recently in Jefferson City, Missouri, by State Rep. Mike Moon. Moon’s House Resolution 99 decimates the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, in…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: April 16, 2017
Politicians! A few years in office are enough. Arrogance needs nipping in the bud. Click on over to Townhall. Come back for the complete context. YouTube: “Okie from Muskogee” by Merle Haggard Deseret News: “Sen. Hatch's re-election bid proves the need for term limits” TPM: Hatch: “Sorry, Romney, Trump Is…
Relevance: 39% Posted on: April 27, 2017
Like E.F. Hutton, when the United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights “Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health” talks, people listen. In disbelief, perhaps. Or amusement. But they listen. Well, at least Washington…
Relevance: 39% Posted on: January 2, 2013
The most prescient thing ever said about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare, was articulated by then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi: “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” The medical reform package is quite the hodgepodge.…
Relevance: 39% Posted on: February 19, 2014
“Moving on from unfulfilling jobs, thanks to health-care law,” was the gleeful headline across the story spoon-fed to the Washington Post by Families USA, a pro-Obamacare group that maintains a “database of people who have benefitted” from the so-called Affordable Care Act. No doubt, that’s a pretty easy list to…
Relevance: 38% Posted on: October 29, 2013
First, NBC’s Nightly News anchor Brian Williams reported that the “website for the president’s new health care law is back up tonight after yet another technical problem over the weekend that prevented people from signing up for health insurance . . . yet again.” Then he went on, bemoaning, “For…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: November 20, 2013
Mr. Humpty Dumpty provided the lesson. Not a novel lesson, I grant you. All the great sages gave similar warnings: “Don’t bite off more than you can chew”; “Look before you leap”; “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” So, I repeat, not novel. Call it oval, in honor…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: April 8, 2012
Did you catch my column this weekend? It's called "Nonsense, Precedented and Petrified," and it takes on a common mistake, this time made by one of the better columnists out there. Here are links in my column worth checking up on: Obama and the Mother of All Tyrannies(David Harsanyi in…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: July 4, 2012
With the Supreme Court’s decision in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, Obamacare has achieved its first milestone: The repudiation of logic, the Orwellian assertion that A both is and is not A. The massive healthcare package, officially titled the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, requires that individuals buy medical insurance. The law imposes…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: October 27, 2020
On the 73rd anniversary of the birth of Hillary Clinton, the United States Senate confirmed Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Mrs. Clinton, the former Democratic presidential candidate, looms in the background of the issue as a sort of éminence grise, a specter of the politics of the left.…