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Ad Budget Slashed

Relevance: 58%      Posted on: September 7, 2017

Republican politicians, who had been running since 2010 on killing ObamaCare, did not. Not when they had a chance. Despite dominating Congress, they failed, because they opted for a goofy way to do it (the House’s AHCA plan being a terrible mess, probably worse than the monster it was trying…

A Compact Solution

Relevance: 57%      Posted on: September 19, 2011

“We shouldn’t have to leave our country to have a reasonable health care system,” says Eric O’Keefe, chair of the Health Care Compact Alliance. I agree, but what to do with Obamacare, at present secure from repeal? O’Keefe points out that Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution permits states…

Best Plan Is No Plan

Relevance: 57%      Posted on: January 9, 2017

“Republicans would create chaos in the health care system because they are stuck,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says, “between a rock and a cliché.” Oh. Off by a word or two. But I don’t need to fix it. What needs to be fixed is the whole system. “Head clown”*…

Out of Our Misery

Relevance: 57%      Posted on: January 26, 2017

Obamacare may be on the way out. According to The Atlantic, “the powers of the incoming Health and Human Services secretary are broad enough to cripple the [Affordable Care Act] so it has to be replaced.” Which is significant since the new President has just “signed an executive order empowering…

Laboring for Unemployment

Relevance: 57%      Posted on: January 29, 2013

When you make it harder to hire people—as Obamacare does by imposing penalties on companies that fail to provide specified health insurance—you make it more unlikely that persons will be hired. Consider the case of Automation Systems Inc., reported at National Review Online. After the economy went into a nose…

Obamacare as Bad as Windows 8?

Relevance: 57%      Posted on: October 23, 2013

The spectacular failure of Healthcare.gov to sign people up for the much-promised easy-to-access “healthcare” plans, has now gone mainstream. So, how bad is it? Worse than Windows 8? Just as I know of no one, personally, who has bought a medical coverage package through the new Obamacare system, I also…

ObamaCare’s Casualties

Relevance: 56%      Posted on: July 31, 2017

We all know the truth: Partisan “warfare” yields the usual war casualty, truth itself. Now, because of the increasing weight of federal government presence in healthcare markets, partisan untruth incurs medical costs. Take the goofy Republican plan(s) to “repeal and replace” ObamaCare — pushed with so many half-truths and downright…

Countdown to Zero

Relevance: 56%      Posted on: October 7, 2013

The New York Times has a timeline of the progress of Obamacare. It’s okay as far as it goes. Which is not too far, since only the most recent dates seem readily accessible. And since the Times editors blindly favor the Obama-assault. But sure, labor leaders have both criticized and…

Big Government Blows It

Relevance: 56%      Posted on: October 8, 2013

The Obama Administration won’t say how many Americans have successfully navigated the online sign-up during last week’s grand opening of the Affordable Care Act healthcare exchanges . . . if anyone. To quell the media manhunt, the White House tweeted that Chad Henderson, a mild-mannered 21-year-old Georgia college student with…

Bailed — Before Bailout

Relevance: 56%      Posted on: April 25, 2016

Last Wednesday, UnitedHealthcare Group Incorporated (UNH) announced that it will drop coverage of plans under Obamacare in all but a few states by 2017. The market signaled a thumb’s up: UNH stock prices shot up over 2 percent. The company, described in the news, somewhat vaguely, as the country’s largest insurer, is…