Good video illustrating how “competition” would work if the insurance market included a government-run public option:
Health Care BS
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THE STUPAK PARTY
The most delicious irony of the congressional health care debate is that “reform” may be shot down by a group of Democrats. Bart Stupak, the pro-life Democrat from Michigan, has reiterated his threat to kill the bill if House leaders and White House operatives meddle with his anti-abortion amendment to HR 3962:
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) pledged […]
DUMBEST REFORM POST OF THE WEEK (I)
Timothy Noah wins this prize without serious competition. Responding to an analysis from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that contained inconvenient facts about the House “reform” bill, he reminds us that the author of the CMS report works for … er … CMS:
On the other hand, let’s not forget who it is Richard Foster works for … Foster works for the […]
HEALTH REFORM À LA COWEN & KLING (& ME)
Cowen offers a more detailed blueprint than does Kling, but it is WAY too dependent on the kind of government meddling that has created much of the current health care mess:
Construct a path for federalizing Medicaid … produce a greater net increase in Medicaid than the current bill will do … Boost subsidies to medical R&D by […]
IT’S THE COST, MR. PRESIDENT
Incredibly, that’s the beginning passage of an AP article about public attitudes concerning Obamacare. According to the wire service’s new poll, the voters are not confident that they’re being told the truth about the cost of Obamacare:
Americans are worried about hidden costs in the fine print of health care overhaul legislation, an Associated Press poll says.
And well they should be. Those […]
GOING ROGUE ON PLAUSIBILITY
Well, I told myself not to do another post on this, but I just couldn’t let this one pass. In the following passage, Sullivan attempts to justify his morbid obsession with Sarah Palin and her family:
Yes, some of this is funny, some weird, a lot tabloidy … but the fact that a person of no credentials […]
PELOSI MAKES US AN OFFER WE CAN’T REFUSE
Paul Hsieh has a good piece in the Washington Examiner discussing the mafia-like features of the recently passed House “reform” legislation:
Suppose the mafia came to your town and forced everyone to purchase all their meals at mob-approved restaurants. The mafia would also select the menu items …
Sound far-fetched? Hsieh goes on to explain that this is precisely how […]
SOWING ROGUE: SARAHPHOBIA SELLS BOOKS
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, one of the best ways to promote a book was to somehow get it denounced at the pulpit. Clerical outrage was sure to whet public appetite for any tome thus singled out. In our era, the establishment media fill the same promotional niche. If a book is panned by the NYT, sneered at […]
WHY PELOSI WAS IN A RUSH ON “REFORM”
Answer: the government agency that must administer whatever health care boondoggle the Democrats finally settle on was about to release its cost estimates. Pelosi and her accomplices wanted to get the fraud bill passed before the public saw the real cost.
And its not hard to see why they were worried. Turns out this huge tax increase reform bill […]
IF YOU CAN FIND A DOCTOR YOU CAN KEEP HIM
Rarely mentioned in the interminable debate over the “public option” is the effect it will have on the availability of primary care. The following cartoon by Lisa Benson brilliantly illustrates what actual patients will experience once they are herded onto to the public plan:
No matter how many lies the Dems tell, the public plan will pay Medicare rates. The […]