The Secretary of Health and Human Services has no authority over the private health insurance industry, which is regulated by the states, but that hasn’t prevented Kathleen Sebelius from sticking her bureaucratic nose in its business.
Last week, she wrote a letter to Anthem Blue Cross of California demanding that it “provide a detailed justification” for a proposed rate increase, […]
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Category Archives: Bureaucratic BS
KATHLEEN SEBELIUS AND HHS GOING ROGUE
THESE PEOPLE SHOULD RUN HEALTH CARE?
Many observers, including a large contingent of Obots covering for the President, have blamed the Flight 253 terrorism incident on Janet Napolitano—-and she is indeed incompetent.
But Napolitano is just a symptom. The disease is government bureaucracy. Emmett Tyrrell summarizes the multiple failures of our Homeland Security apparatchiks in the American Spectator:
All failed repeatedly to recognize the threat that this terrorist, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab […]
OBAMACARE: BUREAUCRATS MAKING LAW
Barack Obama’s promise to fix U.S. health care was no doubt one of the reasons he was elected President by such a comfortable margin. It is unlikely, however, that many of the voters realized he intended to give government bureaucrats the power to make law. Nonetheless, the President and his congressional accomplices have inserted language into their health “reform” legislation […]
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 […]
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 […]
“CHOICE” UNDER GOVT HEALTH CARE
One promise that the President consistently makes is that Americans will have “choice” when his brand of health reform is enacted. Well, I guess that depends on what the meaning of “choice” is.
It apparently doesn’t mean that seniors can spend their own money for their own health insurance without losing their Social Security benefits. Per […]
PAYING FAT PEOPLE TO WALK?
When government apparatchiks run the health care system they do this kind of stupid crap:
Overweight parents will be paid to walk their children to school under plans to tackle the obesity epidemic.
This is Britain, of course, where the same idiots deem certain cancer drugs too expensive. But they have all kinds of money for the […]
IF YOUR CARE IS TOO EXPENSIVE … DIE!
As I have said before, I believe the market provides the most efficient and humane mechanism for carrying out health care rationing. If you believe government bureaucracies can do a better job, I recommend this story in The Telegraph:
The NHS should not always attempt to save someone’s life if the cost is too much, the medical regulator has ruled.
Britain’s […]
RATIONING AND SUICIDE
Like all finite goods and services, health care must be rationed. The only real choice we have involves the mechanism by which the rationing is carried out. Thus, the health care reform debate revolves around the following question: What is the most efficient and humane mechanism for rationing medical services?
It will be no surprise to regular HCBS […]
GOVERNMENT INSURANCE AT WORK
Nurse K has an illustrative post about a real patient so entangled in red tape that she can’t get urgently needed treatment:
A patient with a military insurance plan calls up and says that she had a foreign body removed from her eye and was instructed to see an eye doctor the day after discharge …
The patient, in a […]
