Despite the fact that we have been assured that any and all problems with Obamacare's implementation are hereby a thing of the past, and that we were foolish to have ever thought otherwise, the fact of the matter is that problems with the health care system exist, and are growing. Evidence for this was cited …
Obamacare Is Slowly Dying, and No One Should Be Surprised
For quite a while now, we have been assured that we as a nation are well past the early hiccups and rough patches that attended the implementation of Obamacare. From here on out, we have been promised relatively smooth sailing. Everything is fine, everyone is happy, there is nothing bad or unpleasant to see, and …
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The Supreme Court Bats .500. Legal and Political Analysis Follows.
The United States Supreme Court has come out with two major opinions, in as many days. The first concerned Barack Obama's health care law, and featured a bad outcome based on poor reasoning. The second concerned the issue of same-sex marriage and featured a laudable outcome based on less-than-good reasoning. We'll take the health care …
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My Policy on Vaccines and Vaccinations
I'll have something to say about individual politicians and their stances on vaccines and vaccination policy later. For now, here is where I stand: 1. Vaccinations should be mandatory. 2. Any religious objections to vaccinations should be found to fail even when strict scrutiny is applied as the standard of review. The state certainly can …
Yet Another Problem with Healthcare.gov
It's now working too well, at least in one respect: The government's health insurance website is quietly sending consumers' personal data to private companies that specialize in advertising and analyzing Internet data for performance and marketing, The Associated Press has learned. The scope of what is disclosed or how it might be used was not …
Jonathan Gruber’s Disastrous Congressional Testimony
It was awful beyond imagining. Behold a snippet: This little political skirmish was Jonathan Gruber's Little Bighorn moment in which he didn't play the role of Sitting Bull. Gowdy owned the debate--and Gruber--not only because he is a much more skilled and adept verbal interlocutor than is Gruber (who desperately grasps for the saving power …
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When People Tell You that Problems with Obamacare Have Been Solved, Don’t Believe Them
Facts are stubborn things, and facts will not allow anyone to truthfully claim that all is well in the land of Obamacare: “If you’re one of the more than 250 million Americans who already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance — this law will only make it more secure and more affordable,” President …
Charles Schumer Commits a Kinsley Gaffe
And boy, what a Kinsley gaffe it is: Democrats made a strategic mistake by passing the Affordable Care Act, Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the third-ranking member of the Senate Democratic leadership, said Tuesday. Schumer says Democrats “blew the opportunity the American people gave them” in the 2008 elections, a Democratic landslide, by focusing on healthcare …
Rebuking Crazy Talk on the Supreme Court
Remember Paul Krugman's ridiculous comments regarding the Supreme Court's decision to grant certiorari in King v. Burwell? Justice Elena Kagan--no one's idea of a right-wing jurist, of course--has something to say about them: Statements such as that of economics professor Paul Krugman’s argument in a New York Times column that the Court is corrupt, which was …
The Latest Obamacare Outrage
Let's say that you have an Obamacare plan. Let's say that you like it. Let's say that you want to keep it. Let's say that open enrollment comes around, and you do nothing, because you think that you don't have to--since everything is fine, and you have a plan, and you want to keep it, …
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