The Care’s Lousy, but at Least It’s Expensive

The toughest Family Feud question ever would be “Name a government program that reduces costs,” especially given the rather non-politically invested families that seem to appear as contestants.  Survey says that, for Washington, going broke is when the real squandering starts.  Worst of all, they blame you: your leaders think you can’t spend or save [...]

All Things Being Equal, Many Aren’t Moderates

Swinging up and down completely differs from remaining level.  A boat bouncing severely while riding stormy waves isn’t enjoying what averages out to a smooth journey.  While that’s true in the real world, it’s not so in the rather perverse confines of Washington, D.C., where even physics lessons are commonly ignored.  Within that ignoble swamp, [...]

Health Care is Only Well to a Point

Imagine if California’s health consumers were allowed to buy insurance from whatever company they wanted.  Picture if they could assume the risks of their choosing, too, or a scenario under which they were actually made aware of how much an appointment or procedure costs and accordingly used resources judiciously.  Then dream about eating a jar [...]

Misdiagnosing the Constitution

Promoting the general welfare is entirely different than generally having most people on welfare.  The word decoding game is no fun, especially when big government geeks are twisting phrases to make it seem like their beliefs are justified.  Specifically, they wring curious meanings out of every single line in the Constitution, as the left’s interpretative [...]

Evil Health Insurers Help Us While Making a Living

The dullest scoundrel in human history is still a scoundrel.  Harry Reid wouldn’t exactly serve as a worthwhile James Bond foil.  Still, he worked as hard as a sluggish bore could to ruin Christmas for all by stuffing through a health care bill hated by conservatives, libertarians, and leftists.  Worst, he’s still limply directing the [...]

The Healthcare Morass

By: Laura Adelmann
With the public option seemingly off the table, Harry Reid and Senate Democrats had to look for another idea to sway votes for the healthcare bill. Their latest offering? Expand Medicare to allow a buy in for those between the ages of 55 and 64. This Medicare option now appears to be off [...]

Not Buying What They’re Forcibly Selling

Laws should be enacted using the Hippocratic Oath as a guide: those who do no harm should be legally in the clear.  But Congress is sadly attempting the inverse.  We currently face a loss of autonomy when it comes to, cruelly, medical decisions.  Making it mandatory to buy something is fundamentally antithetical to our belief [...]

Obama may not be lying about health care, but he’s still untruthful

By Anthony Bialy
Say you work in an office, and your cool boss decides that placing a box full of money in the break room would be a great way to inspire productivity. While everyone has access to it, he announces one stipulation, namely that each person is only allowed to take a dollar per [...]

Obama’s New Slogan Changing What We Believe In

by Ellen Janoski
President Obama changed his rhetoric from supporting “health care reform” to supporting “health insurance reform.” He doesn’t simply want to reform the insurance system, he wants to drastically alter the very nature of insurance.
Insurance is and always has been to protect against rare but catastrophic losses that a person would not be able [...]

…with liberty and Medicare for all?

By Dr. Brian Russell
In the past few days, I’ve been hearing proponents of government-run health care pointing to Medicare as a model of how the government can run health care beautifully.  I have to weigh in on that because I don’t think most licensed health care professionals like me see Medicare as a panacea for [...]

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