This is absolutely incredible. There was shock when we learned that the total was 111. There was outrage when the total hit 222. Now, it’s 729. The HHS website where the approved waivers are listed can be found here.
When you read the list, you will notice that these “new” waivers were approved last year. Why […]
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OBAMACARE WAIVER TOTAL JUMPS FROM 222 TO 729 THE DAY AFTER SOTU
GOP INVESTIGATES OBAMACARE WAIVERS
As I pointed out back in December, the Obama administration has issued 222 waivers to various companies and unions so they won’t have to bear the burdens of ObamaCare. Inquiring minds have long wondered if those waivers were issued based on political considerations (like large donations to the President or his party).
Fred Upton, the new chairman of […]
BRINGING OBAMA’S MEDICRATS TO HEEL
Hey, here’s an idea: Instead of using the Arizona tragedy as a pretext for restricting free expression and dictating the names of Republican-sponsored bills, how about let’s rein in the out-of-control health care bureaucrats Obama has installed at HHS and the FDA. In my latest piece for the American Spectator, I give a few examples […]
BERWICK DEIGNS TO TESTIFY BEFORE SENATE
Today, four months after the President used a recess appointment to install him as CMS administrator, Donald Berwick will finally stoop to testify before the Senate Finance Committee:
Don Berwick, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will face vigorous questioning from Republicans when he appears before the Senate Finance Committee …
If the Republicans […]
VIDEO: WHY ELITIST GOVERNMENT STINKS
Want to know why top-down rule by a privileged ruling class is a bad idea? This video from Bill Whittle provides one of the clearest explanations you will ever hear:
First, it is anti-democratic. Second, the elites will steal money (i.e. taxes) from the serfs (i.e. you) and give it to the new nobility (i.e. themselves). Third, it just […]
VIDEO: OBAMA CMS HEAD DUCKS QUESTIONS
Donald Berwick, who became the Commissar of CMS via an imperial decreee a Presidential recess appointment, has control of a gigantic bureaucracy with thousands of employees and a budget larger than that of the Pentagon.
He directs the health care spending for 1 in 3 Americans and has the authority to dictate treatment standards for the nation’s hospitals, doctors, […]
FDA PUTS OFF RATIONING OF CANCER DRUG UNTIL AFTER MIDTERM ELECTIONS
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that government health care is politicized health care, this should wake you up. This decision is just about as cynical as it gets:
In Washington, DC, if you want to release news so it doesn’t get much coverage, do it Friday afternoon. If you want to really […]
EDUCATION SECRETARY PIMPS GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE
Anyone up for another example of mission creep? This time its the Department of Education using the school lunch program to funnel people into the SCHIP program. Here’s how the Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, describes his mission:
Our job is to make sure everyone knows how to enroll. There is a role for every member of […]
VIDEO: CONSTITUENT LAYS INTO DEM SENATOR OVER OBAMACARE
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 […]
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 […]