And, speaking of White House whoppers, this seems like a good time to reprise this classic Klavan video about the tsunami of BS under which “the One� drowned us when he was pitching ObamaCare.
There was, of course, the notorious C-SPAN lie and the whopper about how the public would have five days to review the legislation online before it was actually […]
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VIDEO: A REPRISE OF OBAMA’S REFORM BS
WOLF: FIRST, DO NO HARM
Dr. Milton Wolf enjoys a growing reputation as a blogger and a columnist for the Washington Times. He is also the President’s second cousin, which we try not to hold against him.
Now he’s a pamphleteer in the tradition of Tom Paine. His new pamphlet, First, Do No Harm, explains why his Hippocratic oath requires him to […]
VIDEO: IS THE GOP REALLY DUMB ENOUGH TO NOMINATE THIS MAN FOR PRESIDENT?
Mitt Romney is, for all intents and purposes, the father of ObamaCare—a government boondoggle that busts the budget, raises health care costs and reduces access.  Even worse, it is apparently the first entitlement in history to grow less popular over time.
That ad was put together by Massachusetts Dems highlighting Romney’s role in building the ObamaCare prototype. How the Hell is is this […]
THE PURPLE HEALTH REFORM PLAN
The reds and the blues have been engaged in a running gun battle over health reform for a long time. But, as David Hogberg reports at IBD, one group of economists believes it is possible to achieve progressive aims by market-based means:
Boston University economist Laurence Kotlikoff … seeks to achieve the liberal goal of universal care via a market-oriented […]
HHS BUREAUCRATS CONVERT 6 PAGES OF “REFORM” INTO 429 PAGES OF REGULATIONS
Remember all those claims, made by countless ObamaCare supporters, that “reform” would make the “chaotic” U.S. health care system more efficient? Well, here’s what the word efficient means to the bureaucrats of the Health & Human Services department:
Section 3022 of the law, which is about the Medicare shared savings program, take up just six pages in the […]
A “RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE” IS A RIGHT TO STEAL YOUR NEIGHBOR’S PROPERTY
Paul Hsieh has a great column in The Objective Standard about the fundamentally immoral foundation of the claim, often made by progressives, that health care is a “human right”:
Rights are not entitlements to goods or services produced by others; rather, they are prerogatives to freedom of action, such as the right to free speech, the […]
VIDEO: 10 REASONS WHY OBAMACARE CAN’T POSSIBLY WORK AS WRITTEN
John Goodman does a typically thorough job of laying out the economic realities of ”reform.” The ten problems he discusses are as follows:Â
An impossible mandate.
A bizarre system of subsidies.
Perverse incentives for insurers.
Perverse incentives for insurers.
Impossible expectations.
Impossible Medicare cuts for seniors.
Impossible burdens on the states.
Lack of portability.
Over-regulated patients.
Over-regulated doctors.
After watching the video go to Goodman’s NCPA site and […]
OBAMACARE PROGNOSIS LOOKING GRIM
ObamaCare has been pronounced dead before and yet continued to linger on in a vegetative state. However, as Dr. Milton Wolf points out in the Washington Times, its vital signs are fading:
Obamacare is living on borrowed time … the laws of economics and the laws of the land are racing to see which will take it […]
VIDEO: SENATOR HATCH CALLS OBAMACARE AN “AWFUL PIECE OF CRAP”
I couldn’t have said it better myself. And despite the scatological language, he was actually making a useful point about using states as laboratories for health reform rather than imposing a solution from inside the Beltway:
Every state has different demographics, every state has different problems. It’s good to allow them to work out their own […]
YOUR FUTURE UNDER GOVT-RUN HEALTH CARE, PATIENT NEGLECT AT BRITAIN’S NHS
Want to know your value as a patient in a government-run health care system? Take a look at this report on how elderly patients are treated in Britain’s NHS. Here’s what being transferred from one NHS facility to another is like:
[The patient]Â arrived at the care home strapped to a stretcher, soaked with urine, dressed in […]