Although it is becoming increasingly obvious to serious policy wonks of all political persuasions that Health IT is not the panacea it has been made out to be, Barack Obama is still peddling EMR as a magical elixir. Newsweek has a good piece about this particular brand of Dr. Obama’s snake oil:
He claims that a […]
A personality trait common among progressives is an inability to admit it when they have been wrong. This is what causes them to doggedly defend favorite programs long after they have been shown to be miserable failures. A case in point is the latest NYT editorial about the 2006 Massachusetts universal health care initiative:
Massachusetts’s pioneering plan to provide universal health coverage […]
Ever wonder why soi disant progressives, who claim to be so concerned about the plight of the common man, favor socialized medicine despite its propensity to produce poor health outcomes and cruel rationing? Peter Schweizer suggests that Lefties just aren’t very nice. Referencing data accumulated by the General Social Survey, he points out the following:
Those surveyed were asked: ‘Is it […]
Yesterday, when I read that Ron Paul was going to pull the plug on his presidential campaign, I was skeptical. Turns out I’m not alone:
True, Paul’s old website carries an obviously counterfeit message claiming Paul is ending his presidential campaign. But that site has clearly been hijacked by neocons and other dastardly demons determined to undermine libertarian […]
Tim Russert was one of the few broadcast journalists for whom I had respect. He was not afraid to ask real questions and insist on actual answers.
I was looking forward to seeing him force Barack Obama to abandon the windy bromides and actually say something of substance.
C’est la vie.
Occasional commenter WD sent along his analysis of a recent Commonwealth Fund “study,” and it deserves its own post:
One should give credit to the folks at the Commonwealth Fund (CF). The headlines they generate are top-notch: “INSURED BUT POORLY PROTECTED: 25 MILLION ADULTS ARE UNDERINSURED; NUMBER UP 60 PERCENT IN 4 YEARS.”
Their research, on the other hand…well, let’s look at […]
In response to this post, commenter Groetzinger asks the following question: “If you believe [the health care problem] is fixable what is the fix?”
Well, if I were appointed Grand Imperial Poobah for Health Care and Bottle Washing, here’s what I would do:
Decouple employment from health care by eliminating the tax advantage that exists for employer-provided health insurance.
Create a national health […]
The more one examines the health care references in Barack Obama’s recent victory speech the more ridiculous they seem, a point not lost on Michael Graham of the Boston Herald:
For sheer entertainment value, few things can beat South Side Obama, the High Priest of Rezko Politics, offering himself as the new Moses in the land of free medical care manna […]
Remember the heterosexual AIDS scare? No? Well, throughout the 1980s, the WHO and the “news” media issued a seemingly endless stream of apocalyptic warnings about an impending worldwide AIDS pandemic. Turns out it was just another load of BS:
In the first official admission that the universal prevention strategy promoted by the major Aids organisations may have been misdirected, Kevin de […]
Anyone doubting that contemporary Progressivism is intellectually moribund should consider the credulous reaction of the Left to Barack Obama’s recent victory speech. Does one not have to be totally brain dead to take the following seriously?
I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was […]
