My latest column for the American Spectator takes a closer look at the President’s harebrained scheme to “control costs” by making Granny skip her meds. He wants Medicare to negotiate (i.e. dictate) prices to the drug companies:
Like all price-control schemes, this would inevitably lead to shortages. If Medicare forces the drug companies to sell their products at rates […]
Health Care BS
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OBAMA ON DRUGS
ALLEN WEST GOES WOBBLY ON OBAMACARE?
Say it ain’t so, Allen.
Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), who has emerged as an outspoken conservative voice among GOP freshmen, cast a surprising vote last week against a bill to scrap part of the 2010 healthcare overhaul … West was one of just four Republicans to vote against the measure, which passed 235-191.
If West is already […]
VIDEO: HERMAN CAIN’S GOP DEBATE TRIUMPH
Herman Cain was the obvious winner of last Thursday’s Republican debate, and this video collects all his answers into one clip (without the boring answers of his alleged competitors):
Despite what the political professionals say, he has a shot winning the GOP nomination. If his Tea Party supporters give him couple of early primary upsets, the […]
CHANGE WITHOUT HOPE
President Obama was sworn into office in January of 2009. The unemployment rate for that month was 7.6%.  After more than two years of hope-n-change, unemployment for April of 2011 stood at 9.0%:
The unemployment rate edged up to 9.0 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
The average price of gasoline during the week Obama was […]
A DUMB IDEA THAT JUST WON’T DIE
One of the dumbest “cost control” schemes advocated by progressive health care wonks is the notion that Medicare can use its clout to negotiate prices directly with pharmaceutical companies. In this context, “negotiate” means “dictate,” and our warrior President has predictably adopted this idiotic idea:
We will cut spending on prescription drugs by using Medicare’s purchasing power to drive greater efficiency […]
WOLF DINGS GINGRICH ON HEALTH CARE PLAN
One expects Mitt Romney, the former governor of a deep blue state, to come with nanny-state baggage like Romneycare. But who would have suspected conservative icon Newt Gingrich to embrace the big-government view of health care reform?Â
Well, Milton Wolf, for one. In his latest column for the Washington Times, Dr. Wolf correctly points out that Gingrich has succumbed to the […]
DID OBAMA TRY TO VOTE “PRESENT” ON OBL?
That’s what one insider says:
There had been a push to invade the compound for several weeks if not months, primarily led by Leon Panetta … The primary opposition to this plan originated from Valerie Jarrett, and it was her opposition that was enough to create uncertainty within President Obama.
So what did ‘the One” do? He […]
VIDEO: BEFORE ASSASSINATION SQUADS WERE COOL
Hey, anyone up for more progressive hypocrisy? When Obama finally made up his mind to pull the trigger on OBL, he sent the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (a.k.a. Team Six).
This is the kind of “execution squadâ€? that phony anti-war types cited in their denunciations of Dick Cheney and George Bush. In those days, such squads were BAD. […]
OSAMACARE
Well, Osama bin Laden has finally received his much-needed end-of-life counseling, and that’s a good thing. Nonetheless, I feel compelled to point out that the lefty bloggers and journalists who have been celebrating OBL’s demise by taking cheap shots at G.W. Bush are brazen hypocrites.
They were, until yesterday, against the Bush-sanctioned methods that made it possible. Remember all the sanctimonious […]
DEMS LYIN’ ABOUT RYAN’S MEDICARE PLAN
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has put forward the only sane proposition for saving Medicare that we have seen in years, and this has predictably made him the target of hysterical and dishonest attacks from the Democrats. They have accused Ryan of a variety of dark plots including the following:
This Republican path to poverty passes like a tornado […]