Hatin’ on Obamacare
The latest hater? Jeffrey S. Flier, the dean of Harvard Medical School, who says it is not real reform because it will only increase costs, not improve quality and, worse: “Ultimately, our capacity to...
View ArticleGoodbye health insurance, hello FEMA
“…the most basic human right, the right to bargain in a free marketplace.” –from The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein Mrs. Charm insists that we’ll still keep our health insurance under...
View ArticleThe Doc In The Box
I’m glad to see these retail-ish medical clinics, which are very popular in Austin, are proliferating. But I’m surprised to see there’s only 1,200 plus across the country. They are pretty cheap and...
View ArticleMemo to the Titanic
I’m trying to ignore our ignoble politics, wishing a pox on both parties. So I think the best way to deal with this weekend’s takeover of the health-care system is to ignore it. But the Seablogger’s...
View ArticleBeggars In Spain
This first of a Nancy Kress sci-fi classic trilogy could as readily be titled Beggars In Dallas, even though it was only a metaphor in the first place. Some of the rest of the book, despite its focus...
View ArticleBehind Uncle Barry’s warning to the Supremes
“The president and his followers want to be able to labor on our behalf, and to make all of our important decisions. Many of them, like their European counterparts, firmly believe this is the best way...
View ArticleAiding the Mexican economy
Just one of Obamacare’s unintended consequences. A Passing Parade reprise. Ross Perot’s 1992 giant sucking sound soon will be “the sound of Grandma going to one of the scores of new hospitals in...
View ArticleHappy Dependence Day, sheeple
Independence Day? Ha! Used to be, but it sure ain’t any more. It’s not even close to the way it was when it all started back in 1776 when Americans had the highest incomes and the lowest taxes in the...
View ArticleObamacare in one (long) sentence
Summed up rather neatly by a congressional hopeful in Illinois. (Considering how easy it is for federal pols to legally get wealthy these days, who wouldn’t want to be a congressional hopeful?) “We are...
View ArticleThe ObamaCare catastrophe
Primary care doctors (the first ones you see when you’re sick) already are in short supply so the fed’s October-materializing mandated service to all comers will inevitably cause longer delays for...
View ArticleBy: SnoopyTheGoon
Well, painkillers ain’t cheap as well, what with tightening border controls and DEA and all that
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