Tag Archives: health care

Grannie Wars

According to Democrats, Paul Ryan wants to throw grannie off a cliff. Obama just wants her to take a pill.

Reality Based Election

Opposition research shows that in the past The Donald has supported single payer health insurance.

Federal Power

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A federal judge ruled that the federal government doesn’t have the power to make you go out and buy something you otherwise wouldn’t – health care in this case. The government claims its constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce gives it the right to do just that.

Nat Hentoff doesn’t think any clause of the constitution gives the government the right to assassinate its own citizens who become jihadists.

Watch What You Say

100917bokloresHealth insurers are raising their prices in part due to new demands of ObamaCare. Kathleen Sebelius has threatened them by saying the administration will have zero tolerance for insurance companies that blame rate hikes on the new health order. She hinted that she would put them out of business. Previously the administration has asked citizens to report to a government web site when they hear something “fishy” on the internet. Michael Barone calls this Gangster Governmemt.

Calling Dr. Berwick

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The president used a recess appointment to slip Donald Berwick by the senate in order to run the health care program Obama rammed through congress. David Axelrod insisted the president was simply trying to avoid a “circus in the senate“. Axe has a point. Dr. Berwick would have been performing without a net while explaining why he’s “romantic about the NHS (British National Health Service),” what he means by “the darkness of private enterprise,” and why excellent health care is “by definition redistributional “.

And physicians would have thrilled to his doctor defying comment, ” I would place a commitment to excellence – standardization to the best known method – above clinician autonomy as a rule for care.” You can read about this and other sayings of Dr. Beriwick in Daniel Henninger’s WSJ column.