Healthcare
It’s probably not really worth mentioning, but Joe Baker’s column in yesterday’s Newport Daily News is an astonishing bit of cheer leading for the policies of the Obama administration. Most of it has to do with the economy and how wonderfully the stimulus program worked. Perhaps it’s enough to note that he claims the recovery…
As Marc mentioned this morning, large companies have been assessing the direct cost of the Democrats’ healthcare plan to them (i.e., their employees and customers) in the billions of dollars, and Congress has responded by “fuming.” Those who read the from the mainstream media and left of there wouldn’t have heard much about it, though.…
Big Business learns that Big Government giveth and taketh away: On Capitol Hill and in the White House on Monday, Democrats were fuming over a series of announcements that started Friday from Fortune 500 firms saying their bottom lines will take huge negative hits because of changes in tax law mandated by Obamacare. That hit…
Ed Fitzpatrick’s column, yesterday, suggests that the healthcare law, including the individual mandate, is constitutional, but one needn’t be as far right as Anchor Rising to be very concerned about the reason: The Supreme Court has held that Congress “can tax for any legitimate reason, and certainly providing health care for all Americans is a…
This might be the most frightening thing related to the healthcare legislation that I’ve read thus far: Dr. Nick Tsiongas, who sounded jubilant when reached by phone Monday, actually agrees with Purcell that the bill is weak on cost control. But Tsiongas, who founded the local reform group HealthRIght, believes the federal legislation will allow…
Perhaps you’ve noticed the newspaper fad, in recent months, of printing “fact checks” that purport to offer readers a balanced and objective assessment of the spin surrounding various issues. I stopped bothering with them after the first couple, when it occurred to me that the articles are mainly useful for bloggers still interested in spotting…
It’s been an education in the future of healthcare in the United States to watch Rhode Island’s three insurers seek rate increases from the state as the Democrats have forced their legislation through Congress. On Thursday, the state health insurance commissioner, Christopher Koller “slashed” proposed premium increases and: … that’s not the only effect: Koller…
According to Steve Peoples of the Projo’s 7-to-7 newsblog, Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch (to no one’s surprise, really) is not interested in joining a potential lawsuit by the states challenging the Federal government’s power to require that individuals purchase something…“I don’t like a lot of the decisions that the legislature makes every day.…
Not understanding this. Long waits and worsening care. Costs increasing – strange, why didn’t price controls take care of that? Looks like we’re gonna need to do some more revenue enhancing. Doctors dropping out. (Huh. Wonder if that’s related to the price controls.) Most doctors have stopped taking Medicare patients? Well, a “universal coverage” addendum…
For almost a year, the people of the United States have taken every opportunity to tell their “representatives” not to absorb our healthcare system into the government. Tea Parties, town halls, elections (even unto taking a Massachusetts Senate seat out of Democrat hands), and poll after poll after poll. They didn’t care. They’ve lied. They’ve…
