Paul Hsieh has, in his latest contribution to Pajamas Media, found the perfect metaphor for the creepy reaction of the Democrats to the downgrade caused by their irresponsible policies: Suppose you saw your doctor for a persistent headache. After performing a full battery of tests, he told you that your MRI scan showed a malignant brain tumor. Would you [...]
Another day, another power grab by Obama’s apparatchiks. This time, they have decided that the hilariously titled Affordable Care Act empowers them to take over a function normally carried out by state regulators: The Obama administration will soon take over the review of health insurance rates in 10 states where it says state officials do not adequately regulate [...]
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 [...]
Another day, another intimidation tactic. This time the “most transparent administration in history” will deploy government snoops who will call the doctor’s office and pretend to be patients: Obama administration officials are recruiting a team of ‘mystery shoppers’ to pose as patients, call doctors’ offices and request appointments to see how difficult it is for people to [...]
In his latest column for Pajamas Media, Paul Hsieh drives home the point that the battle over government-run health care is as much about individual liberty as it is about medicine: Benjamin Franklin once warned Americans that ‘they who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.’ Yet in the seemingly [...]
As I noted in my my recent American Spectator column, the government lawyer who defended ObamaCare before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals last week was Neal Katyal. Katyal has been acting U.S. Solicitor General since Elena Kagan, the former Solicitor General, was elevated to the U.S. Supreme Court. But he was passed over for the permanent [...]
One of the ways ObamaCare will “cover” the uninsured is by herding about 18 million people onto Medicaid. But the health care “reform” law doesn’t provide enough money to the states to pay for all these new enrollees. So, the states will increasingly have to cut provider payment rates. This means that most of the [...]
For decades, our friends on the left have been trying to convince us that the government is our friend and that taxes merely amount to pitching in with our fair share. Mary Katharine Ham and the folks at the Daily Caller provide this little dream sequence about our special “friends” at the IRS.
Paul Hsieh, in his latest column for Pajamas Media, provides the perfect metaphor for that Social Security Trust Fund we keep hearing about from people inside the Beltway: In a classic episode of The Simpsons, a hungry Homer Simpson runs out of donuts and breaks into his emergency stash. But when he opens the box, [...]
Our economy has once again devolved into Carter-style stagflation. Why? Because the President and his congressional accomplices imposed an economic model on the country that has a perfect record of failure. Milton Wolf does a good job, in his most recent Washington Times column, of explaining why central economic planning and government ownership of business never produces the prosperity its adherents [...]
