Healthcare
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…
Given the political philosophies of some of the strongest supporters of a “public healthcare option,” it would be reasonable to suspect that this sort of invasion is a desired outcome, not an unfortunate development, in the quest to engineer a healthcare and well-being system for the people’s own good: The Children’s Secretary set out £400million…
Before yesterday’s RISC meeting, somebody of my general political philosophy mentioned that she’d just returned from Canada, and her associates in that country were well satisfied with their healthcare. Such testimonies are worth considering, of course, but anybody who feels anything other than utter bewilderment at the Mac v. PC spats, in either direction, should…
Barth Bracy, executive director of the Rhode Island Right to Life Committee, makes an interesting observation in the current issue of the Rhode Island Catholic: In less than six months Obama has appointed dozens of extreme pro-abortion ideologues to key positions in government, nullified the Mexico City Policy, and authorized taxpayer funding for embryo-killing experimentation,…
The Lenin-era cliché that Capitalists would sell Communists the rope with which to hang them comes to mind, only in this case, it involves voters allowing their representatives to get to the point of not even reading the legislation by which they’re taking our freedoms away. Such was the conversation last night, on the Matt…