There are few surer ways to produce a self-satisfied smirk on the face of an Obamacare supporter than to mention Ronald Reagan’s early opposition to Medicare. This post by Hanna Rosin is typically smug:
This morning I heard a clip of Ronald Reagan, then candidate for governor, speaking about the prospect of Medicare, and sounding very much […]
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REAGAN WAS RIGHT ABOUT MEDICARE
SCHIP: THINK IT’S ABOUT POOR KIDS?
Yesterday, I pointed out that the SCHIP tobacco tax is a device designed to force poor people to buy insurance for members of the middle class. Anyone still doubting that should consider our President’s latest executive order:
President Barack Obama made more children from middle-class families eligible for government health insurance Thursday by lifting a directive imposed […]
TAXING THE POOR TO PAY FOR SCHIP
The most disgraceful feature of today’s SCHIP vote involves the plan to pay for the legislation by taxing the poor. The Democrats deny that their tobacco tax will have this effect, but they are lying. Here’s the lead author of a 2007 study:
Further tax hikes [on tobacco] would place an undue burden on the poor–those hit the hardest by […]
REPUBLICANS ROLL OVER ON SCHIP
Anyone expecting congressional Republicans to hold the line on health care should consider today’s craven GOP behavior on SCHIP. The Republicans know this is a bad bill, and that Bush was right to veto the boondoggle when he was President. But don’t look for much GOP courage this time around:
It’s a twofer tonight for the […]
SCHIP AND THE STILL-DUMB TOBACCO TAX
What is it about bad ideas that makes them so hard to kill? In a sane world, a tobacco tax to fund a health care program would be laughed out of existence. I mean, it creates a need for smokers. It’s an idea so dumb that only Congress could think of it:
If the above video doesn’t drive […]
BLAGO SCANDAL REACHES HEALTH CARE
The more government involvement we have in health care, the more politicized the system becomes. In addition to shenanigans such as those we have seen relating to SCHIP and Medicare Advantage, there will also be straightforward graft. Per the WSJ:
The $8 million in new state money that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich allegedly tied to a $50,000 campaign contribution from a children’s-hospital […]
SCHIP: NJ PROVES BUSH WAS RIGHT
During last year’s debate over the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, President Bush was routinely excoriated in the media for saying that many states had diverted SCHIP funds from poor kids to children and adults from families with incomes exceeding $80,000. He was right, of course, as AP reports:
People earning as much as $295,000 are enrolled in a state health care […]
HILLARY LYING ABOUT SCHIP ROLE
In addition to the tall tales she’s been telling about her foreign policy experience, Hillary has apparently been lying about the part she played in creating the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. The Boston Globe reports the following:
Hillary Clinton, who has frequently described herself on the campaign trail as playing a pivotal role in forging […]
WHAT PART OF “VETO” DON’T YOU GET?
Well, as I noted a couple of days ago, Nancy Pelosi and her accomplices in the House of Representatives were determined to waste everyone’s time with another veto override vote on their fraudulent SCHIP bill.
As anyone with an IQ exceeding single digits could have predicted, this latest ploy failed. Here’s what Minority Leader John Boehner had to say the last time the […]
SCHIP: ANOTHER SALVAGE ATTEMPT
The Democratic congress, facing the lowest public approval ratings on record, has been trying to create the illusion that it is accomplishing something. Unfortunately, Nancy Pelosi and her accomplices are just not capable of playing it straight.
Thus, they are going to try once again to override the President’s veto of their fraudulent SCHIP bill. This […]
