Bernie has a plan.
Bernie Sanders is going to give us Medicare for All and the “rich” are going to pay for it. What could go wrong?
Tagged: Health Care
Health care and political word games.
In Washington, the word ‘affordable’ has been redefined to mean, “someone else is paying for it.”
Policy success is the only option.
The Left and the media are going to try by all available means to either force Trump from office or derail his agenda.
No, the Republican Congress won’t fix healthcare.
There is exactly zero chance that this Congress, or any Congress that follows from now down to the last generation, will ever pass a law that provides Americans with “quality, affordable health care.”
Replace Obamacare with what?
All of the apologies for Obamacare notwithstanding, Obamacare at its core is little other than a welfare program.
The Great Society at 50.
Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson gave a speech at the University of Michigan in which he first proposed what he called the “Great Society.” So what of the Great Society on its 50th birthday? Sadly, there’s little to celebrate.
If the grocery store were the doctor’s office.
If we bought groceries in America the way we buy health care, the cost for food would explode and most of our political debate would be centered on finding some policy to deal with high food prices.
Waiting for “free” health care.
Assuming that the purpose of a health care industry is to prolong and improve human life, legislating away money as the economic mechanism for clearing the market and substituting in its place time is the worst possible allocation of resources.
It settles nothing.
The healthcare debate springs from the false premise that only the government can ensure “access” to health care. Nothing that the Supreme Court said changes the fact that we are debating the wrong things.
A nation of infants.
Forget the esoterica of the constitutional arguments. Forget that Congress has arrogated to itself power over your life on a scale never before seen. The real problem with Obamacare is that upwards of four out of ten in the United States believe that entitlement on such a scale is even possible.
Obamacare turns two.
Obamacare’s second birthday is coming and going today almost totally uncelebrated. Proud father Barack Obama had everybody over to the house on the day his namesake was born. But today he, and Obamacare’s mother, Nancy Pelosi aren’t saying a word.
Lessons from the loo.
Try to imagine the bureaucratic gridlock of a city of fewer than 100,000 trying to procure toilet paper for a few city buildings scaled up to say, the size of the bureaucracy of an entire country trying to procure health care for 310 million citizens.
If only Rush had said…
By his ham-handedness, Rush Limbaugh turned the event of a college student’s testimony before Congress into a wasted opportunity to expose the folly of limitless entitlement.
The word “free” explains everything.
It finally has become clear to me that I have insufficiently appreciated what is actually motivating those that argue in favor of mandated health plan coverage of contraceptives. The word “free” explains it all.
Paying on both ends.
With the best of intentions, the government has become the driving economic force in both higher education and in health care. In both cases, costs are out of control.
Your doctor’s massive pay cut.
Last week, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, MPAC, yet another government panel that you probably didn’t know existed, voted to impose massive payment reductions upon doctors who see patients under Medicare.
WikiLeaks revelation: U.S. government not terribly competent.
The WikiLeaks story is simply staggering. In case you’ve missed it released on the Internet classified U.S. documents.
The American (after tax) generosity machine.
Earlier this week on Tuesday morning, the top folks at Trinity Mother Frances Health System in Tyler hosted a breakfast for the purpose of making a big announcement.
I don’t know.
You may know what a 1099 form is. It’s what businesses are required to send to contractors, consultants and temporary employees for whom no regular paychecks are issued.
ObamaCare pro or con. It doesn’t matter.
Years ago, I worked with a guy named Dennis. Dennis was a spendthrift. Whatever was the newest, coolest thing to have, Dennis had first.