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?
HSIEH: SCREENING FOR TERRORISTS VERSUS SCREENING FOR CANCER
In his latest op-ed for Pajamas Media, Paul Hsieh points out one of the profound ironies of our era:
Our government currently tells air travelers, “Submit to our screening despite the dubious effectiveness, bodily invasion, and needless emotional distress”
And yet:
In the realm of health care the federal government has adopted a new policy of discouraging routine […]
BERWICK BITES THE DUST
Well, I guess we can all give thanks tomorrow that Dr. Donald Berwick, President Obama’s recess-appointed Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, has resigned:
The embattled acting director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Donald Berwick, will step down from his post on Dec. 2 after Republicans succeeded in blocking his […]
RATIONING ADVOCATE TO HEAD THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADVISORY BOARD
In today’s American Spectator I discuss the latest ghoul our President has dug up and set loose on the hapless electorate. Obama has nominated Henry J. Aaron to Chair this influential body, and that is not good news:
We already have a staunch rationing advocate, Donald Berwick, running the government health care program for the elderly. Now the […]
OBAMACARE RATIONING HITS THE POOR
The most Orwellian feature of ObamaCare is its name, the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.” Countless studies and news stories have documented that PPACA is actually causing health care costs to RISE. And, as David Hogberg points out in IBD, all it “protects” patients from is access to care:
Recently, Washington state changed its Medicaid program so […]
CAIN, CANCER AND OBAMACARE
In today’s American Spectator, I discuss Herman Cain’s claim during last week’s Republican debate that he’d be dead if ObamaCare had been in effect when his colon and liver cancer were diagnosed.
Cain pointed out that ‘from March 2006 all the way to the end of 2006, for that number of months, I was able to get […]
THE ORWELLIAN ESSENCE OF OBAMACARE
Dr. Beth Haynes, of the Black Ribbon Project, has a great column at Townhall on the Orwellian character of ObamaCare:
When is rationing not rationing … When the government says so.
And our Beltway masters often say so:
Supporters of the ACA react to the opposition’s charges of rationing by pointing out that the law expressly forbids it … But if the […]
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 […]
WOLF ON THE FDA’S RATIONING MAN
Milton Wolf’s latest column at the Washington Times discusses a guy you have probably never heard of—Richard Pazdur. Whether you have heard of him or not, this Beltway bureaucrat has serious power over your life:
In 2009, our bureaucratic ruling class suddenly declared that women in their 40s no longer needed mammography screening. This came as […]
OBAMA DOJ TELLS SCOTUS THAT MEDICAID PATIENTS LACK LEGAL RIGHT TO SUE GOVT
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 “newly […]