Our health care system? Socialized with a mix of government (more efficient/inexpensive) and private (less efficient/expensive) payers: But 1986 does seem to me to be the real moment when America socialized medicine – under Reagan! In a real Ron-Paul style free market in healthcare, where everyone has to buy their own insurance or not...
Read more →I know this is late, but I am not the biggest fan of Russ Feingold the legislator. He is a Democrat who often chose being correct on the Senate floor over applying the correct leverage in the Senate back rooms. More recently, he’s done plenty of things that should have earned him more scorn from progressive activists....
Read more →He can be a spokesperson for the Americans victimized by the oh so brutal tan tax. Maybe he can have a Beck type rally for leathery “skinsecure” people everywhere.
Read more →Frum didn’t follow his party’s flawed conventional wisdom and paid for it. Former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum has resigned from the right-wing American Enterprise Institute, Frum announced on his Web site Thursday afternoon — a move which suggests the conservative movement has cut ties with Frum over the straight talk he has...
Read more →The votes are already whipped. This seems to be a strategy to delay. With the Senate working through an all-night session on a package of changes to the Democrats’ sweeping health care legislation, Republicans early Thursday morning identified parliamentary problems with at least two provisions that will require the measure to be sent back...
Read more →The legislation was added to the health care overhaul moving though Congress, and passed the House on Sunday night by a vote of 220-211. If passed by the Senate, it will eliminate the role of private lenders in originating federal student loans, a change that the Congressional Budget Office estimates will save the federal...
Read more →February 18, 2010, Obama is an empty suit/celebrity meme (in the form of Obama = Captain Teleprompter) being bandied about by all hat no cattle conservatives was still worth mention. The Conservative Political Action Conference opened Thursday morning in Washington, and one leitmotif has emerged as an early favorite: noting that President Obama likes...
Read more →Yglesias believes the historic passing of Health care reform cements Obama’s place as one of the finest Presidents in history. Now that it’s done, Barack Obama will go down in history as one of America’s finest presidents. It’s always possible of course that, like LBJ, he’ll get involved in some unrelated fiasco that mars his...
Read more →photo credit: Speaker Pelosi An honest conservative viewpoint regarding the political implications of health care reform from David Frum (via Waterloo | FrumForum): Only, the hardliners overlooked a few key facts: Obama was elected with 53% of the vote, not Clinton’s 42%. The liberal block within the Democratic congressional caucus is bigger and stronger than...
Read more →So they insist that the two plans have nothing in common — but the only real difference they can point to is that Massachusetts didn’t fund its plan in part out of Medicare savings. Of course, it couldn’t. But think about this a bit more: Republicans are saying that what makes Obamacare a socialist...
Read more →Paul Ryan is touting being looked at as a leading republican voice on GOP alternatives to Democratic policies, but people are ignoring his duplicity with respect to CBO scores. He touts the CBO scores of his policies while ignoring CBO scores of Democratic policies if the Democratic policy score is quite simply better. Becerra,...
Read more →I am sure the GOP’s obstructionism has got him wound up, but even more so his own party’s unnecessarily slow maneuvering in the Senate has got to be burning him up as well. The Republican Party is “a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry,” Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) charged on the House floor....
Read more →State of the Union needs to clarify the current position of the president with regards to health care. Harry Reid’s position: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) stressed Tuesday there was “no rush” to complete and pass a healthcare bill in the coming days or weeks. via Reid: ‘No rush’ to finish healthcare – The...
Read more →This explains how community rating works to control premium creep and relate cost to the people’s ability to afford it Remarkably, in virtually all other industrialized nations, this issue is hardly ever raised. Community rating there has long been widely accepted and is unlikely to be abandoned in the foreseeable future. The health systems...
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