One of the myths promulgated by advocates of Obamacare is that government-run health care has lower administrative costs than private insurance. I have debunked that myth here and here.
Nonetheless, if you want a current example of the exorbitant admin costs government programs of any kind always generate, you need look no further than the cash-for-clunkers boondoggle:
Adminstrative costs […]
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THE ADMIN COSTS OF GOVT-RUN ANYTHING
PRESIDENT OBLARNEY VS. SARAH BARRACUDA
At the White House, and among Obama’s supporters in the media and the blogosphere, the party line on Sarah Palin is that she is irrelevant. At worst, she is a somewhat unhinged nuisance.
It is, however, blindingly obvious that they don’t actually believe this. In reality, she scares the hell of of them. Thus, President Obama used part of his […]
SOWELL ON OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE SPEECH
Thomas Sowell provides some food for thought about the president’s upcoming speech on health care:
One plain fact should outweigh all the words of Barack Obama … He tried to rush Congress into passing a massive government takeover of the nation’s medical care before the August recess– for a program that would not take effect until 2013!
Why would he […]
SARAH BARRACUDA’S FULL COURT PRESS
Sarah Palin has become the only GOP voice to which anyone really listens on health care reform. Why? Because, while the rest of the Republicans try to limit their losses, Palin is actually trying to win the game.
While defanged conservatives like Newt Gingrich cozy up with creeps like Al Sharption, Sarah ignores the personal fouls to which she […]
YES, THERE IS A REPUBLICAN ALTERNATIVE
One tactic used by Obama supporters to avoid a serious health reform debate is to pretend that the Republicans have offered no rational alternative to Obamacare. This assertion is typical:
If we had a functional and serious conservative movement in this country … We’d be talking about re-thinking the insurance model for large parts of medical care, we’d […]
WHY IS OBAMACARE IN TROUBLE?
Andrew Sullivan believes that the President still has a strategic advantage in his bid to pass health care “reform,” but admits Obama is in tactical trouble. To explain why, he lists a variety of peripheral issues, then gets to the real problem:
But the most critical part, in my view, is the public understanding that after two massive bank bailouts and […]
OBAMACARE BITES … AGAIN
Two things strike me as ironic about yesterday’s episode of impromptu cannibalism at an LA health care demonstration: The perpetrator of the violence was (once again) pro-Obamacare and the progressive response to the violence has (once again) been a collective yawn.
As to the latter point, Chris Bodenner’s flippancy was typical. For him, the episode was just a particularly […]
SENIORS FRET AS OBAMA RECRUITS KIDS
While the president tries to recruit an army of underage Obots by taking his increasing creepy message to America’s schools, the people at the other end of the age spectrum are more and more suspicious of his intentions:
Polls show seniors … are more likely than other age groups to think Medicare, the government-funded health program for the elderly, will be worse […]
MEDICARE AD SCARES OCARE ADVOCATES
You can always tell when a GOP ad is effective: it is vehemently denounced by all the usual suspects as a low trick even by the dubious standards of those dastardly Republicans. Here’s how Patrick Appel describes the latest ad (video below) from Michael Steele:
It’s surreal witnessing how unprincipled the national GOP has become, opposing a […]
NYT PREMATURELY DECLARES VICTORY … AGAIN
Last year, when it was far to early to know, our friends at the NYT breathlessly announced that the Massachusetts universal health coverage plan was “off to a good start.” Since then, virtually all of the objective data have shown the Bay State experiment to be a fiscal nightmare that has failed to accomplish its basic goals.
Rather […]