Paul Hsieh’s latest column for the Christian Science Monitor provides a great metaphor for ObamaCare’s top-down, centrally-controlled health care model:
Suppose President Obama declared he would tackle rising food prices by forcing everyone to eat at government-supervised restaurant chains. Small restaurants would be nudged to merge with national ones. Bureaucrats would monitor menu items and prices. […]
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VIDEO: DNC CHAIR PROVES DEMS HAVE NO PLAN TO SAVE MEDICARE
The Dems have spent a good deal of time trashing Paul Ryan and his plan to save Medicare, but have offered no sensible counter-proposal. In this clip, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is asked for a reasonable alternative and can’t produce anything but the same tired “Mediscare” whoppers she and her accomplices have been peddling all along:
VIDEO: CAIN PRAISES RYAN’S MEDICARE PLAN, HAMMERS GOP OPPONENTS FOR COWARDICE
In this interview, Cain says he supports Rep. Paul Ryan’s plan to save Medicare “one hundred percent.� And, when the interviewer asked him why other GOP candidates (like Romney) are shrinking from the Ryan plan, he tells the obvious truth:
The people who are backing away from Ryan’s plan, they simply lack courage … I don’t know any […]
VIDEO: CLINTON WARNS RYAN THAT NY-26 WILL ENCOURAGE DEMS TO RUN ON “MEDISCARE”
The tragedy of the NY-26 election results is not that a Dem won, but that she won using the old “Mediscare” tactic. Even Bill Clinton understands that the current Medicare funding model is simply unsustainable. In this clip, he worries aloud that the NY victory will encourage the Dems to continue their irresponsible failure to face that fact:
I’m glad […]
A DUMB IDEA THAT JUST WON’T DIE
One of the dumbest “cost control” schemes advocated by progressive health care wonks is the notion that Medicare can use its clout to negotiate prices directly with pharmaceutical companies. In this context, “negotiate” means “dictate,” and our warrior President has predictably adopted this idiotic idea:
We will cut spending on prescription drugs by using Medicare’s purchasing power to drive greater efficiency […]
SCARY VIDEO: PETER ORSZAG EXPLAINS IPAB’S “ENORMOUS” POWER
What’s IPAB? It’s the ”Independent Payment Advisory Board” that our President will use to ration health care if he is permitted to do so. It was created by ObamaCare and, as Obama’s former OMB director explains in this clip, it will have far more effect on the country’s fiscal trajectory than the Congressional Budget Office.
IPAB has statutory power […]
REPUBLICAN BUDGET DEFUNDS OBAMACARE
The GOP’s budget proposal was presented today by Rep. Paul Ryan, the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, and it purports to contain not a penny for ObamaCare:
The Republican proposal says one of its aims is ‘making sure that not a penny goes toward implementing the new [health care] law enacted last year.
This includes repealing […]
FUNNY YET POIGNANT VIDEO: IRS DUNS SEVEN-YEAR OLD TO PAY FOR OBAMACARE
This is the third place winner in the video contest held by the Independent Women’s Voice. In this one, a seven-year-old is called on the phone by an anonymous IRS agent and told the price tag (i.e. the accumulated debt) that she and each of her contemporaries will be burdened with in the cause of “free health care.” He tells her she owes $127,000 and […]
MILLENNIAL GENERATION TO OBAMA: “I DON’T NEED YOUR HEALTH CARE LAW. I NEED A JOB.”
Last week, Independent Women’s Voice announced that this video, “The Millennial Appeal to Obama,” was the winner of the first prize in its ObamaCare Anniversary Video Contest. And it’s a powerful piece of work:
Now I can stay on my parents insurance until I’m 26. There’s just one tiny problem …Your health care plan hurts the economy. ObamaCare […]
VIDEO: OBAMACARE’S ILL EFFECT ON A SMALL BUSINESS AND ITS EMPLOYEES
The big problem with ObamaCare’s various mandates is that they raise the cost of hiring and keeping employees. It will cause benefit cuts and layoffs for current employees of small businesses and retard future growth and job creation. The guy in this Heritage Foundation video has several IHOP franchises and explains this dilemma in terms that even […]