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Bigger And Better Boondoggles

November 6, 2009

Once upon a time, when I was nineteen years old, I read J.R. Tolkien's 1100-page Lord Of The Rings trilogy in about a week. I only accomplished that because I was in the hospital in traction at the time, and didn't have anything else to do. It was either hobbits or soap operas. I was [...]

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A Taxing Health Care Plan

November 2, 2009

There's an old political truism that says you don't raise taxes during a recession. The reason is, raising taxes during a recession tends to make the recession worse. They used to call that – economics.
But that was before the Age Of Obama and Pelosi, where economic rules no longer apply. Obama and Pelosi just love [...]

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Incapable Of The Truth

October 28, 2009

Here's Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to President Barack Obama, speaking to CNN about Fox News:
Embedded video from CNN Video
I don't know how a clip could illustrated the dishonesty of politics any more than this clip does. When Jarrett is asked if Fox News is biased, she immediately answers "Of course they are biased. Of course [...]

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Self-Interest And Health Care Incentives

October 14, 2009

People always act in their own financial self-interest. Ditto for organizations. For instance, let's say you have a choice between two competing health care plans with the same coverage. Company A offers the plan for $200 per month, and Company B offers the plan for $400 per month. It's pretty obvious you'd choose Company A, [...]

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How Much Will Your Reform Health Insurance Cost ?

October 4, 2009

I've been waiting a long time for some hard numbers to come out on health care reform. We finally have at least some ballpark estimates on what individual health insurance policies will cost under the various reform packages floating around Congress, courtesy of Kaiser. Find some numbers at the following link.
Health Reform Subsidy Calculator
Health [...]

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When In Doubt, Ask A Celebrity

October 2, 2009

When seeking solutions to health care, who better to look to than our own Hollywood celebrities ? These celebrities have become very wealthy in our capitalist system, and they live in big mansions. Who better to speak out against the evils of insurance company profits (average 3.4% profit margin) than super-profitable celebs ? I only [...]

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Dumbing Down The Health Care Debate

October 1, 2009

First, we had months of fretting about "death panels" after Sarah Palin used those two words in a Tweet on Twitter (who come up with these silly internet names anyway ? "Google," "Yahoo," "Twitter." "I taut I taw a puddy tat." Do we have any grownups on the web ?). Then we had the dustup [...]

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In Their Own Words

September 25, 2009

"For those who question the character and cause of my nation, I ask you to look at the concrete actions we have taken in just nine months." – President Barack Hussein Obama, narcissist, addressing the United Nations, September, 2009.
I'm sure glad Barry came along and fixed the character and cause of this nation after 232 [...]

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Health Care Hypocrites

September 23, 2009

President Bush tried to cut Medicare spending several times to trim the deficits and offset rising health care costs. Each time, he was vilified by the Democrats, and Democrats voted as a bloc against those cuts, defeating them every time. In 2008, they even overrode a Bush veto to stop Bush from implementing Medicare cuts. [...]

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Tort Reform And Race Cards

September 15, 2009

During President Obama's latest health care reform campaign speech before a joint session of Congress, he pretended to throw a bone to Republicans with a weak call for "demonstration projects" on medical tort reform. Rather odd, when you consider such demonstration projects have already been done, and have been done for years.
"Whole states are demonstration [...]

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We Don't Have Free Market Health Care

September 10, 2009

One thing I've never been able to understand in the health care reform debate is why the Republican idea to allow health insurance companies to compete on a nationwide basis isn't incorporated into the health care reform bill(s). President Obama stresses competition as the primary reason for the public option, but every thinking person knows [...]

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Health Care Facts And Falsehoods

September 4, 2009

Republicans are lying about health care reform. Democrats are lying about health care reform. The media isn't helping much to inform us. The media prefers to focus on contention at townhall meetings rather than the facts about health care reform. I guess that makes for better ratings. Infotainment.
So, what's a citizen to believe ? I [...]

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