Healthcare
A number of analysts have begun to note that, under current Democratic healthcare proposals, President Barack Obama’s promise that “if you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan” is not reality-based. Under the Democratic plans, “you” don’t get any choice in whether to keep your existing coverage if…
If anything, Mark Steyn’s latest lays on the wordplay a bit too thick, but apart from his usual humor, this one’s worth reading if only to sow the last four sentences of this block quote into the conservative repartee: “The right-wing extremist Republican base is back!” warns the Democratic National Committee. These right-wing extremists have…
John Loughlin, the presumed Republican candidate for Patrick Kennedy’s seat in Congress, has issued a press release stating that “the Congressman has a basic obligation to share his in-depth knowledge” about healthcare legislation at three to five town-hall-style meetings. As a matter of an elected representative’s responsibility, Loughlin is absolutely correct, but constituents might have…
Dana Loesch has some pictures of the “angry mobs” showing up at the Health Care Town Halls (you know, where there is supposed to be an open discussion, yada yada yada). Here’s an example: Scary! Peggy Noonan: The leftosphere and the liberal commentariat charged that the town hall meetings weren’t authentic, the crowds were ginned…
Polls continue to indicate President Obama’s and the Democrats’ health care reform is in serious trouble. And the Dems are worried…and paranoid. They haven’t been able to drum up support with their much-touted netroots apparatus and are instead encountering protests against their proposals. But it couldn’t be that their grand plan is wrong…instead, the Democrats…
The government (abstractly speaking) has somehow wiggled its way into a comfortable position in which, as an entity, it need never take blame. Consider a letter from Ben Jones, in Providence: When my wife and I moved to Rhode Island, my wife’s employer-provided insurance plan increased its pricing to over twice the cost, with fewer…
Apparently, the White House has set up an email account to gather inconvenient rhetoric about healthcare reform: There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation.…
Walter Olson, of Overlawyered, highlights Rhode Island as the base of “America’s costume jewelry industry” in his coverage of the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s ban on rhinestones and crystals and has collected multiple telling details, including this one: It doesn’t even matter whether a kid’s health is at more risk (by way of traffic accidents)…
Just in case there’s anybody who still believes that the “public option” is intended as anything other than a catalyst for a fully single-payer system:
Something’s curious about Mark Barabak and Faye Fiore’s presentation of the lack of street creds in Congress when it comes to healthcare: Too much, too fast, too expensive. Those are some of the objections lawmakers have voiced against the healthcare overhaul Democrats are attempting on Capitol Hill. But many Americans think Congress is out of…
