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Monthly Archives June 2010

OCARE IMPLEMENTATION ALREADY FUBAR

Remember all those “progressive” policy wonks who kept telling us that we need government-run health care because the private sector is too chaotic and disorganized to work properly for health care? Don’t look for them to devote a lot of bandwidth to the Obamacare implementation FUBAR:
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has already missed as many as […]

Posted 02 June 2010 † Catron § Bureaucratic BS § Government BS § Obamacare BS § Reform BS ‡ Comments (0)

CAVEAT EMPTOR!

Paul Hsieh has a great op-ed at PajamasMedia about the Neo-Keynesian snake oil being peddled by a variety of left-leaning economists and journalists. They tell us not to fret about federal deficits, but Hsieh warns us not to trust them:
Suppose a traveling salesman came to your neighborhood peddling a miraculous snake oil remedy that would cure your baldness, […]

Posted 02 June 2010 † Catron § Economics BS § Government BS § Obamacare BS § Propaganda BS ‡ Comments (0)

OCARE LAWSUIT HITS THE ROCKET DOCKET

Although the multi-state suit against Obamacare initiated in Florida has received more attention from the media, it has less chance of reaching the Supreme Court than does the lawsuit filed by Old Dominion AG Ken Cuccinelli. Why? Because the latter was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia:
That’s important because […]

Posted 01 June 2010 † Catron § Constitutional BS § Obamacare BS ‡ Comments (0)

THE SOCIALIZED MEDICAL SYSTEM DONALD BERWICK “LOVES”

In my latest piece for the American Spectator I describe Great Britain’s NHS, the socialized medical system about which President Obama’s CMS pick has quite literally said, “I love it”:
The health care system about which Dr. Berwick is so vocally ‘romantic’ has been an unmitigated disaster for the average Briton. The NHS, the good doctor’s paeans notwithstanding, is a third-world operation that employs […]

Posted 01 June 2010 † Catron § Berwick BS § CMS BS § Obamacare BS ‡ Comments (4)

MCGINNISS SAYS PALIN USES “NAZI TACTICS”

McGinniss claims it’s coincidental that he moved next door, saying he would have moved there if the Palin’s “were living on the moon.â€? Then, after accusing HER of using “ugly innuendo,” he compares her to the Nazis:
It’s probably a lesson for the American people of the power Palin has to incite hatred and her willingness […]

Posted 01 June 2010 † Catron § Journalistic BS § MSM BS § Palin BS § Political BS ‡ Comments (1)