A couple of weeks ago, in the American Spectator, I gigged Newt Gingrich for parroting a tired progressive talking point:
In 2009, he wrote another Washington Post column in which he echoed a refrain often heard from people who believe we should ration care to the elderly: ‘More than 20 percent of all Medicare spending occurs in the […]
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END-OF-LIFE SAVINGS FOOL’S GOLD?
SUDDENLY CANCER SCREENING IS A BAD IDEA
The United States has long enjoyed the best cancer survival rates on the planet. This was largely due to early detection via screening for prostate, breast and cervical cancer.
Moreover, until a couple of years ago, all credible experts agreed that such screening should continue. Then came ObamaCare and Washington’s desire to ration health care.
Now the story on […]
THE LEFT HAS BECOME COMFORTABLY DUMB
My column in today’s American Spectator discusses progressive cluelessness about how often they can pick the taxpayer’s pocket in order to fund frivolous luxuries:
Today I received an email from a cycling group to which I belong. It was marked ‘urgent’ and its subject line read: ‘Federal Bike Funding Under Attack Again.’ It implored me to […]
HSIEH: DON’T BLAME CAPITALISM FOR HIGH HEALTH INSURANCE COSTS
Over at The Undercurrent, Paul Hsieh has a good column about the high cost of benefit mandates that states—and now the feds—impose on health insurance carriers:
State regulators currently require health insurers to include numerous “mandatory benefits,” whether customers wish to purchase them or not. The exact mandatory benefits vary from state to state, but might include services […]
SHOCKER: GOVT PROBABLY UNDERESTIMATING REAL COST OF MEDICARE BY $6 TRILLION
I know this will be hard to believe of those paragons of fiscal precision inside the Beltway, but it appears that official estimates of Medicare’s unfunded liability are too low:
Medicare’s long-term liabilities already are among the biggest drivers of future federal budget deficits. But the burden on taxpayers may be $6 trillion larger than official estimates.
Surely […]
GOVT SAYS OBAMACARE WILL MAKE HEALTH CARE MORE RATHER THAN LESS COSTLY
No one but the most brain-dead Obamazombie will be surprised by this, and it isn’t good news, but to see such estimates coming from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services nonetheless provides a certain amount of schadenfreude for those of us who have been predicting it all along:
Total spending is projected to grow annually […]
VIDEO: SEBELIUS LIES TO CONGRESS ABOUT IPAB
Last April, I wrote a column for the American Spectator about ObamaCare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). Among the issues I pointed out was that IPAB’s “recommendations” require an act of Congress to reverse:
In theory, IPAB can only propose changes to Medicare’s payment rates. In practice, however, the board’s proposals will take effect automatically unless Congress passes […]
MEDICARE, AT 45, HAS A MID-LIFE CRISIS
Medicare officially went into effect on July 1, 1966. And, as Avik Roy points out, it is the perfect case study in why government cost estimates for any entitlement program should be ignored by all sane voters:
When Medicare was enacted, the staff of the House Ways and Means Committee projected that its cost would grow from under […]
A NEW TURD IN THE OBAMACARE PUNCH BOWL
Ya gotta give it to Nancy Pelosi. She is a woman of her word. When she said we had to pass it to see what’s in it, she became the only Democrat to tell the truth about this idiotic law. Here’s the latest stinky surprise:
President Barack Obama’s health care law would let several million middle-class people […]
YOUR TAX DOLLARS ARE PAYING FOR MORE OBAMACARE ADS
Oh, you don’t want your money used to pimp a program that you don’t support? Still pissed off about AnDy Griffith’s grotesque propaganda last year? Tough!
The Obama administration is kicking off a nationwide ad campaign urging seniors to take advantage of free preventive services such as cancer screenings made possible in Medicare by the new […]