North Carolina Senator Kay Hagan gets raked over the coals by one of her constituents over ObamaCare. One of the best points she (the constituent) makes involves unaccountable bureaucrats (like Donald Berwick). She correctly says that she can (and will) vote against the Senator but has no ability to fire the apparatchiks the Dems have […]
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WHY IS THE FDA INVESTIGATING CYCLING?!?!
A few days ago, I linked to Paul Hsieh’s op-ed about FDA interference with your right to get information about your own DNA. If that didn’t convince you that the FDA has gone completely off the rails, this will:
The U.S. criminal investigation, which is being led by the Food and Drug Administration … is designed to potentially […]
YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
That’s what the FDA has told Americans who want a little information about their own DNA. Paul Hsieh has a good piece at PajamasMedia outlining this latest example of federal paternalism:
Recent advances in biotechnology have allowed private companies to offer affordable genetic testing directly to consumers, to help them determine their risks of developing problems […]
VIDEO: BERWICK DENOUNCES FREE MARKET
Our President, having correctly concluded that Donald Berwick would never be confirmed by the Senate as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, shoved him down our throats with a recess appointment.
But the “news” media tell us not to worry because that all this talk about Berwick’s anti-market, statist ideology is just the GOP noise machine. […]
VA HOSPITAL EXPOSES 1,800 VETS TO HIV?
For years, progressives have extolled the virtues of the VA hospital system. Ignoring the veterans who have actually been subjected to its tender mercies, advocates of government-run health care doggedly insist that the VA provides better health care than the private system. Well, they may have trouble selling that BS after this debacle:
The Department of Veterans Affairs […]
VIDEO: KEEP YOUR FCC OFF MY INTERNET
As a blogger and constant user of the internet, the thought of a bunch of federal apparatchiks interferring with the internet sends cold chills down my spine. This video provides three good reasons for preventing the FCC from getting its incompetent bureaucratic tentacles on the web. Among other things, it disposes of the net neutrality scam for which so many naive […]
WHO’S PAYING WHO?
Last year, anyone suggesting that the World Health Organization had prematurely declared the H1N1 outbreak a “pandemic” was treated like an anti-science neanderthal. Well, now it’s pretty obvious that it was indeed premature, and the British Medical Journal may have discovered why the WHO jumped the gun:
Key scientists advising the World Health Organization on planning for […]
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 […]
WHY “DOCTOR” BERWICK IS SO GLIB ABOUT HEALTH CARE RATIONING
Yesterday, I suggested that the Obama nominee we really need to worry about is not Elena Kagan. She, after all, will be a mere Supreme Court justice. She won’t have anywhere near the power over our daily lives that Donald Berwick will enjoy if he is confirmed as the Administrator of CMS.
If you’re not convinced, read this piece […]
OBAMA APPARATCHIKS RECLASSIFY INTERNET TO GIVE FCC CONTROL OVER WEB
If you thought health care and Wall Street were the only areas of endeavor over which the Obots want control, think again. Last month, a federal court told the FCC it has no authority to regulate the internet. But our Beltway masters were never going to allow their Orwellian “net neutrality” project to be so easily thwarted:
This week the Obama Administration […]
