I sometimes suspect that progressives possess a better sense of humor than we give them credit for. The claims they make for Obamacare certainly suggest that. I mean, how else can one explain their claim that is that it saved Medicare, a gag that can be can be found in the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review:
One of HWR’s contributors, […]
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DUMBEST REFORM POST OF THE WEEK (XV)
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 […]
VIDEO: ANDY GRIFFITH PIMPS OBAMACARE
First, Obama and his congressional accomplices pass a “reform” bill that steals $500 billion from Medicare (which will inevitability lead to rationed care and medicine for the elderly) and guts Medicare Advantage (a cut that will fall most heavily on poor and minority seniors). Then, they send out $1 billion in bribes to elderly voters just before the election. […]
UK’S NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE ILLUSTRATES THE PROBLEM WITH “FREE” HEALTH CARE
Here’s what you can expect in the brave new health care world Donald Berwick, Obama’s new CMS administrator, has planned for you. The NHS, which Berwick “loves,” is running out of money (as will Medicare in the not-too-distant future) and the average Brit will pay a heavy price for depending on the nanny state for health care:
NHS bosses have drawn […]
BERWICK TO GO BEFORE SENATE AFTER ALL?
Hmm … This is interesting. The Obama administration sent the Berwick nomination to the Senate on Monday for confirmation. This seems pretty odd considering that the President gave the man a recess appointment on July 7:
President Barack Obama still wants the U.S. Senate to confirm Donald Berwick as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services … […]
DONALD BERWICK’S BRAZEN HYPOCRISY
Obama’s new Medicare Czar has made arrangements to keep himself off the very government health care program through which he plans to impose rationing on the rest of us. The folks at Pajamas Media were kind enough to run my column on Berwick’s hypocrisy:
Dr. Berwick has made sure that he and his wife will never be subjected to […]
THE AMA GETS NO RESPECT IN THE MORNING
My new column at the American Spectator discusses the humiliating failure of the AMA’s roundheel strategy. J. James Rohack, who recently stepped down from his post as the organization’s President, climbed into bed with the Dems and didn’t even get paid for his “services”:
The country’s largest physician association has completely compromised its integrity and received virtually […]
NEW MEDICARE CZAR OPTS OUT OF MEDICARE
It’s bad enough that Donald Berwick favors every bad idea the Left has hatched in the past century—-central-planning, wealth redistribution and health care rationing.
Now we discover that he has made a special deal with his former employer to avoid the very health care system he plans to impose on the most vulnerable of our citizens:
Berwick […]
MSM SANITIZING DONALD BERWICK’S RECORD
My latest column for the American Spectator deals with the disinformation campaign waged by the “news” media about the man Obama just installed at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services:
Donald Berwick’s views on wealth redistribution, rationing and the free market are far to the left of mainstream public opinion, and a wide variety of […]
