Remember all that BS we heard from the President and his congressional accomplices about how Obamacare was going to bend the cost curve down and reduce the federal deficit? Well, it would appear that our progressive friends have decided to abandon that preposterous meme:
Key White House allies are dramatically shifting their attempts to defend health care legislation, abandoning claims […]
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NEW DEM TALKING POINTS ON OBAMACARE: DON’T MENTION COST OR DEFICIT!
OBAMACARE, PHYSICIAN REIMBURSEMENT & PROGRESSIVE PREVARICATION
Every time I read an article or blog post by a progressive health care wonk, I’m reminded of William Safire’s famous description of Hillary Clinton. Like the hapless Mrs. Clinton, these people all seem to be congenital liars.
Predictably, Maggie Mahar is a representative example. At Kevin MD, she simulates a reasonable discussion of Medicare physician reimbursements, but parrots the usual partisan […]
KRUGMAN BENDS THE PLAUSIBILITY CURVE
Paul Krugman isn’t a stupid man. He is, however, such a slave to his ideology that he often makes claims for which the only appropriate adjective is ”dumb.” Yesterday, for example, he produced a blog post in which he made following preposterous assertion:
[T]he Medicare actuaries believe that the cost-saving provisions in the Obama health reform will make a huge […]
OBAMA OFFICIALS CONSIDER TURNING AWAY PATIENTS WITH PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS
Remember all that stuff the President said about how Obamacare was going to cover people with pre-existing conditions? Well, if you were one of the few who actually believed that BS, I recommend this article:
The Obama administration has not ruled out turning sick people away from an insurance program created by the new healthcare law to provide coverage […]
OBAMACARE REGS RELEASED AND EVEN THE NYT VIEWS THEM WITH A JAUNDICED EYE
Yesterday, the rules governing health insurance in the brave new world of Obamacare were released, and even the cheerleaders at the NYT view them with a jaundiced eye:
In some respects, the rules appear to fall short of the sweeping commitments President Obama made while trying to reassure the public in the fight over health legislation.
Sweeping […]
VIDEO: OBAMA TRIES TO HAVE IT BOTH WAYS ON PHYSICIAN PAYMENTS
Just before the final House vote on Obamacare last March, the CBO produced a cost estimate of just under $1 trillion. One of the reasons the cost estimate came in so low was that Obama and congressional Democrats had included large Medicare payment cuts to physicians in their “reform” bill.
But now that Obamacare has passed based on his commitment to cut […]
THE WAGES OF OBAMACARE
For anyone in doubt about how the Obama regime plans to “control health care costs,” I recommend this piece about the DOJ’s heavy-handed coercion of Idaho doctors:
Today the Antitrust Division, joined by Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden, forced a a group of Boise orthopedists to accept price controls for worker’s compensation and HMO contracts as part of a settlement accusing the doctors […]
IF YOU ARE GENUINELY SURPRISED BY THIS, PLEASE DON’T REPRODUCE (OR VOTE)
Well, the Obamacare cost estimates promulgated by the White House and congressional Democrats before the final House vote were good for a few laughs, but now the party’s over:
The Congressional Budget Office today released an analysis of discretionary spending in the law, and found that those costs will “probably exceed” $115 billion over 10 years. At a […]
OBAMACARE CAUSES BIG EMPLOYERS TO CONSIDER DUMPING HEALTH COVERAGE
Why would they dump employee coverage? Because, under Obamacare, they are incentivized to do so. Obamacare imposes a penalty on companies that don’t provide coverage, but it is less than the cost of providing coverage. It is, in other words cheaper to pay than to play:
Many large companies are examining a course that was heretofore […]
VIDEO: IS THE GOVT BANKRUPTING AMERICA?
One reason the President and his congressional accomplices must be given the bum’s rush as quickly as possible is that they ACTUALLY BELIEVE they can pay for Obamacare and their other entitlement programs by raising taxes.
Even if this were fair to American workers, the math doesn’t work. As this video explains, the government has already committed to $106 trillion in future […]
