Ezra Klein, always a fierce contender for this prize, takes the trophy in a walk with this utterly clueless post. Klein’s basic point is that health care costs will continue to rise unless the government imposes price controls (via the public plan or some other means of coercion) on physicians and other health providers. But he begins with a chart that makes […]
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OBAMACARE’S 111 NEW BUREAUCRACIES
Professor John Lewis of Duke University is one of the few people who have actually read HR 3962, the House version of Obamacare. Among the many unnerving facts revealed by his analysis is that this legislation creates more than 100 new hives of government apparatchiks:
1. Retiree Reserve Trust Fund (Section 111(d), p. 61)
2. Grant program for wellness programs to small employers […]
SULLIVAN BLAMES PALIN FOR HER OWN RAPE
Andrew Sullivan, the patron saint of that neurotic band of conspiracy theorists whose pathetic raison d’être is to discover the “truth” about Sarah Palin’s fifth pregnancy, now tells us that it is Palin herself who is driving this creepy story:
Sarah Palin has now made two very clear public statements in the last day about the legitimacy of […]
RATIONING COMMISSION IS SHOVEL-READY
The White House, the “news” media and the nutroots are all whining because the Senate has watered down Obama’s cherished “independent Medicare Commission.” The kvetching from WaPo’s Ezra Klein is typical:
The independent Medicare Commission is one of the most promising cost-control measures in the Senate bill. But … it’s been seriously weakened in recent weeks.
This is a good […]
KRISTOF ON REFORM = TODDLER WITH PISTOL
A New York Times journalist with a health care story is like a two-year old with a loaded Glock. The combination of intellectual underdevelopment and sophisticated weaponry is a recipe for mayhem. Anyone doubting this should read Nicholas Kristof’s column about a patient named John Brodniak, whose story was apparently meant to highlight the deadly consequences of going […]
WHY NO ONE BUYS THE “DEFICIT NEUTRAL” BS
Jeff Goldsmith points out that virtually no one believed President Obama when he promised to enact health care “reform” without adding to the federal budget deficit:
A mid-November Quinnipiac poll found that only 19% of Americans and 35% of his own political party believe health reform will not add to the deficit.
He then goes on to explain […]
THE CBO STIMULUS REPORT: A MEME IS BORN
The Congressional Budget Office has issued a report on the economic effect of the “stimulus” bill, and the Obots are giddy. They are all quoting the same passage:
CBO estimates that in the third quarter of calendar year 2009, an additional 600,000 to 1.6 million people were employed in the United States, and real (inflation-adjusted) gross […]
MY GOD, JIM, I’M A RADIO HOST NOT A DOCTOR
William Shatner insists on talking health reform with Rush Limbaugh. The results remind me of two monkeys trying to … well … just watch:
[HT Hot Air]