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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,…