Selling Obamacare turns out to be not as easy as its devisers thought. The folks at PJ Media have some thoughts: http://youtu.be/3K2XeYuAxIA
Video: When Coolness Fails
Relevance: 67% Posted on: December 28, 2013
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Demanding Demand
Relevance: 66% Posted on: March 31, 2014
Midnight tonight marks another witching hour for Obamacare: the deadline for individuals to sign up for insurance on the federal and state exchanges. Well, sorta . . . kinda. The deadline was extended last week. The dominant feature of the misnamed Affordable Care Act's tedious rollout has been the incessant…
Townhall: Stupid Is As Stupid Says
Relevance: 66% Posted on: December 14, 2014
What we learn when an insider blurts out the impolitic truth. Click on over to Townhall. Then come back here for more reading, or discussion, below. Wikipedia: King v. Burwell Politico: “Will Jonathan Gruber Topple Obamacare?” by David Nather YouTube: “Lack of transparency is a huge advantage," starring Gruber himself
Same Ol’ Blame Game
Relevance: 65% Posted on: November 13, 2013
On Fox’s The Five last night, the subject of whom to blame for the Obamacare debacle came up. Bob Beckel thought the Republicans should apologize to the Democrats: Republicans had messed up Obamacare. Greg Gutfeld was incredulous, and told Bob to shut up. Not good form, that. There’s no point…
Tough Luck, Chumps
Relevance: 65% Posted on: February 16, 2017
Advertised as a big deal ahead of time, the debate didn’t get much play afterwards. Especially from the Left blogosphere. Why? Billed as about the “future of ObamaCare,” it was really about what should replace ObamaCare. The CNN debate pitted Sen. Ted Cruz, well-known Republican opponent of the Affordable Care…
Got Ads?
Relevance: 64% Posted on: November 20, 2013
First the hush-hush secrecy; then the lies. Now something even . . . worse? President Barack Obama doesn’t think the American people can handle the truth. Neither do several progressive non-profit groups in Colorado that have produced a plethora of cringe-worthy ads promoting Obamacare. One print ad, “Let’s Get Physical,”…
The Race Card, Again
Relevance: 63% Posted on: November 29, 2013
Are persons necessarily racist if (a) white and (b) opposed to expansion of the welfare state — that is, merely for opposing such expansion? In the New York Times, journalism professor Thomas Edsall, echoing a now-familiar charge, implies as though it were self-evident that many who oppose Obamacare-ized medicine do…
Rand Paul Promises a Quick End to (and Replacement of) ObamaCare
Relevance: 63% Posted on: February 25, 2017
The replacement for ObamaCare that Rand Paul is pushing looks a lot better than his previous statements had led some of us* ... to fear: https://youtu.be/OjDfN-O0vZQ It is mainly a freeing up of the system. Mainly. It is government getting out of the way. Of course, it is packaged so…
Video: A Freer Market in Medicine?
Relevance: 62% Posted on: August 29, 2015
John C. Goodman, of the Independent Institute, has been studying and writing about health care and government policy for a long time. Here he sketches a way out of the current impasse, which is not just an “ObamaCare” problem: https://youtu.be/P5OCzNvgUK0
Video: Obamacare in Oregon, with Guitar and Four Cellos
Relevance: 61% Posted on: July 13, 2013
The organization setting up the "health care exchange" in Oregon is spending a lot of money on advertising, to help make Obamacare more palatable to skeptics in the Beaver State . . . or at least help proponents feel better about it. http://youtu.be/xVUJNEDpEkg Does this song do anything for you?…
What Gets Lost in Washington
Relevance: 61% Posted on: January 21, 2011
The current battle over “health care reform” is a great example of why representative government frustrates. It’s not just that the vast majority of Americans who oppose the Democrats’ bill didn’t get their way. It’s that the proponents of socialized medicine (and that’s the real goal, here: The eventual complete…
Resistance Still Possible
Relevance: 61% Posted on: July 9, 2012
According to a majority on the Supreme Court, Obamacare’s penalty for not buying medical insurance is constitutional because it’s a “tax,” not a “penalty.” Hmmm. All taxes may penalize, and penalties sure can be “taxing,” but this similarity doesn’t give us license to swap one for the other. Chief Justice…
The “Obamacare” Conspiracy
Relevance: 61% Posted on: December 12, 2011
Some “unintended consequences” aren’t. The order of the market is an unintended consequence of market participation. By buying and selling, we’re just trying to get what we want. But we also send signals that help other folks accommodate our values and plans, which then allows markets to form some semblance…
Subsidy for Everybody!
Relevance: 59% Posted on: January 9, 2015
According to Vice President Joe Biden, the debate is over. Health care, by which he means medical assistance, is a basic right — to be obtained through government, and made effective by the Affordable Care Act — not a “privilege.” By “right” he means “something others are forced to provide,”…
A Fraudulent Pill to Swallow
Relevance: 59% Posted on: August 8, 2012
If you’re like me, you often rub up against common opinion and find little sense in it — or, as I like to put it, popular opinion with the common sense bled out of it. On Monday I reported on an anti-Obamacare lawsuit against the federal government for mandating the…
The Hewitt-Romney Rationalization
Relevance: 59% Posted on: June 6, 2011
Those who insist that RomneyCare isn’t as bad as ObamaCare need a reality check. Both impose new price controls; both impose new taxpayer-funded subsidies; both force people to buy health insurance; both massively expand government interference in our lives. Former Governor Mitt Romney seemed to acknowledge the similarities when he…
Unions of Opposites
Relevance: 59% Posted on: August 26, 2013
Not everything in Dr. Obama’s garden is coming up roses. Even erstwhile — or perhaps masochistic — supporters of the thorny “Obamacare” legislation have sought exemptions from its costs and mandates, or complained about its “unexpected” destructive impact. The AFL-CIO, for example, laments that employers otherwise subject to Obamacare mandates…
As Stupid Does
Relevance: 58% Posted on: November 19, 2014
“Stupid is as stupid does,” said the great American prophet, Forrest Gump. Meanwhile, Obamacare maestro and MIT professor, the illustrious Dr. Jonathan Gruber, has declared in not one but a multitude of videos that the American people are, well, “stupid.” You see, when the elites wielding political power lie to…
TrumpCare Trumped
Relevance: 58% Posted on: March 27, 2017
It took awhile for the Obama Administration to accept the term “ObamaCare.” Nancy Pelosi was the initial driver of the massive scheme to permanently alter American medicine and insurance, and “PelosiCare” would have been a fit moniker for the wildly mis-named “Affordable Care Act.” But the administration put the whole…
No Waiting for the Lies
Relevance: 58% Posted on: October 25, 2013
From the beginning, Democrats urged us to reserve judgment about their beloved “Affordable Care Act.” Wait, they said, until enacted . . . “to find out what’s in it.” Then they said: wait till we see how it works. Now, they tell us to wait some more, while they figure…