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 [...]

Conservative Policy: Be What Barack’s Not

Opposing whatever Barack Obama wants counts as an idea.  Tending to think the answer to anything he says is “No” is a magnificent concept on par with the invention of the George Foreman Grill or the football-shaped sausage.  Those who want the precise converse of the president’s agenda aren’t just being reactionary grumps, either, although [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Reforming the Definition of “Reform”

Thinking about quasi-socialized medicine is naturally depressing: even graphs pertaining to the government’s attempt at commandeering the health system look sad.  The frowny-shaped negative projections made for every permutation of Democraticare sum up general feelings regarding the Cuban emulation of health delivery.  The charts would make Nancy Pelosi pout if she were capable of such [...]

Free Health Care is a Rip-Off

If dealing with Satan has taught me anything, it’s to beware when someone offers you something for “free.”  For example, I’m growing suspicious that the jewel-encrusted kegerator he provided for me might actually be saddled with a prohibitive long-term cost.  Might I have actually consented to some sort of eventual disagreeable payment?
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For AMA, Partial Support Doesn’t Mean a Whole Endorsement

There’s a difference between liking aspects of something and endorsing its entirety.  Consider a restaurant with a convenient location and ample parking that serves crummy food, or a conservative who had to force herself to vote for John McCain, and you get the drift.  That sums up the American Medical Association’s relationship with H.R. 3962, [...]

SGN Exclusive: AMA’s Members Want a Second Opinion

Some of the American Medical Association’s members just want to make sure they’re heard.  What they’re saying is clear: they don’t want the government running their profession.  A coalition of the association’s doctors has made known its opposition to the currently-proposed health care bill.  And they’re doing what they can to press AMA President Jim [...]

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