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Relevance: 52% Posted on: March 14, 2012
Getting good estimates is not easy. Anyone who’s hired a contractor knows to make sure the estimates are sound by insisting that bidders stick to their estimates. This is not what happens in government, though. Projects almost always start out with a whopping figure for an estimate . . .…
Relevance: 52% Posted on: July 20, 2017
“Polling on every possible option confounds all logic,” or so writes Tiana Lowe about ObamaCare and its repeal, at National Review. “Americans overwhelmingly dislike the individual mandate and prioritize lowering the cost of health care over all other health problems in the country,” Ms. Lowe elaborates, “but a majority of…
Relevance: 52% Posted on: April 9, 2010
After a year-long battle, congressional Democrats have rammed through Obamacare, a massive expansion of government control over the health care industry and a massive assault on the liberties of every doctor, patient, insurance agent, and taxpayer in the country. But the issue is far from settled. So, let’s use this…
Relevance: 51% Posted on: July 17, 2017
You’ve heard the adage: “the perfect is the enemy of the good.” This can be true in politics, where opposing an ameliorating reform because it is not ideal means, sometimes, getting stuck with unmitigated policy disasters. But there’s a corollary: in politics the worst is likely to emerge . .…
Relevance: 51% Posted on: April 30, 2016
On Wednesday, UnitedHealthcare Group Incorporated (UNH) announced that it will drop coverage of plans under Obamacare in all but a few states by 2017. The stock market signaled a thumb’s up immediately after the announcement: UNH stock prices went up over 2 percent. The company, described in the news, somewhat vaguely, as…
Relevance: 50% Posted on: February 4, 2010
After Scott Brown captured the U.S. Senate seat Ted Kennedy had occupied for decades, we heard two different views of the event. One said the surprise victory of an obscure state senator over the anointed Democrat in such a Democrat-leaning state had much to do with growing antagonism to runaway…
Relevance: 50% Posted on: August 7, 2013
Not everything new is wonderful. When a company improves its operations, it seeks to do so in a way that decreases costs or produces features customers want enough to pay for. It works to ensure that the benefits of adopting new procedures outweigh the costs. At least, this is what…
Relevance: 50% Posted on: March 23, 2010
By hook and by crook — ignoring the constitution and twisting parliamentary rules — the president and his congressional allies are succeeding in imposing command-and-control health care on all Americans. If the new law is allowed to stand, the scraps of freedom we still enjoy in matters of health care…
Relevance: 50% Posted on: June 28, 2012
With the Supreme Court’s decision in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has achieved its first milestone: The repudiation of logic, the Orwellian assertion that A both is and is not A. The reform package, popularly known as Obamacare, requires that individuals…
Relevance: 49% Posted on: March 3, 2011
Loathe handcuffs and leg irons? No problem. We’ll adjust the restraints slightly. Shave a gram off the weight. Paint them a new color. And throw away the key. Feel liberated? Nobody in a chain gang would be fooled. But the Obama Administration expects phony “concessions” in the implementation of last…