War on Profits.

A company is able to provide goods and services to you only if it makes more money by selling those things to you than it costs him to produce those things. Otherwise, why bother, right? If it costs $100 to make a candy bar, but nobody is willing to pay Hershey more than $2 for [...]

GameStop Health Care

I’m no government know-it-all; I’m just a mom, a former elementary school teacher who believes simple is best.  I have been watching as our government partakes in a circus-like atmosphere, trying to choose a health care plan that will cost too much, both literally and figuratively.  I personally have prayed for the uninsured for years; I [...]

Say it ain’t Snowe.

If one lone Republican supporting your socialist bill indicates “bipartisan” support, then Max Baucus and the Democrats got that yesterday as the first hurdle to a government takeover of our insurance industry was cleared. Here’s Liberal in Republican clothing Olympia Snowe ruminating on whether a “public option” might be the thing to fix “what’s wrong” [...]

Bumper sticker.

The following is part of a longer piece published by Doug O’Brien over  at biggovernment.com (the site on which all those delicious ACORN videos originated) that unfortunately is too long for a bumper sticker, but which nonetheless captures the spirit driving a majority of Americans in opposition to Obamacare these days: Every day, the administration’s [...]

Guess who’s coming to dinner?

Someone named Noam N. Levey penned this wonderful little bit of misinformation in today’s LA Times: Imagine the debate over healthcare legislation on Capitol Hill as a tussle among three friends out for dinner. All three have been struggling to pay their bills lately. When the check arrives, they try to figure out how to [...]

Is there anything that the Federal Government is good at?

The title of this post is almost as long as the post itself. Consider that the Washington DC Public schools are the only public schools in the country that are completely administered by the Federal Government. Want to take a guess at what they spend per student? You got it. $16,540. Bear in mind that [...]

Crisis?

President Obama is fond of saying that there are nearly “46 million Americans without health insurance coverage.” He’s of course blowing sunshine up all your asses. Take a look at the real numbers: [O]f those 45.7 million people: * 6.4 million are enrolled in Medicaid or S-CHIP and just gave the Census taker the wrong [...]

Insurance.

Sometimes, when you’re arguing back and forth on a topic for too long, it’s easy to sort of lose focus on what all the hub bub is about and it’s worth taking just a few moments to step back and put your hands on the arguments once again. Health Care reform. Or is it Health [...]

UPDATE

I called it a “misdirection” in my earlier post. Thomas Sowell calls it a “bait and switch”: It’s called “bait and switch” when an unscrupulous business advertises one thing and tries to sell you something else. When politicians do it, it is far more dangerous to far more people. Deception is not an incidental aspect [...]

Death panels? What death panels?

Here’s Obama in April in an interview with David Leonhardt of the New York Times: [W]hen Peter Orszag and I talk about the importance of using comparative-effectiveness studies as a way of reining in costs, that’s not an attempt to micromanage the doctor-patient relationship. It is an attempt to say to patients, you know what, [...]

Life expectancy.

Ask any liberal why we should embark on a UK/Canada style of nationalized health care (go ahead, I’ll wait, I’m sure you won’t have to look too long), and I’ll bet you a thousand dollars they’ll shoot back that the life expectancy in those 2 countries is greater than ours. They probably won’t say anything [...]

Chronically Ill?

Hi everyone, I’m Trish, and I’m honored to be writing for this amazing blog today! This morning I received an email from an old friend.  She’s one of those old friends who doesn’t actually write to me (or anyone else, for that matter); she just sends forwarded material, copied-and-pasted articles, and links to a massive list [...]

Because they’ve been so trustworthy before.

The socialists are promising that THIS time it will be different. Forget about that whole Medicare thing where we promised to take care of a small SLIVER of our population (the elderly). Forget that we utterly failed. Focus instead how THIS TIME it will be different and that we’re more effectively manage the health of [...]

You talkin’ to me?

When the socialists get up on the podiums in their townhall meetings and advocate a single payer health care system that will put private insurance companies out of business, who exactly is their audience? Are they talking to you? Consider the latest poll from Rasmussen: Thirty-two percent (32%) of voters nationwide favor a single-payer health [...]

An ounce of prevention?

The socialists are telling you that by expanding coverage and paying for millions to have preventive care now, we’ll actually be saving lots of money in the long run since many costly subsequent procedures to deal with diseases will be avoided.  No costly chemo treatments, so the story goes, if early doctor visits reveal a [...]

Obamacare–trojan horse for single payer.

I don’t remember if I ever posted or linked to the following video, but even if I did, it doesn’t hurt to do so again. Please watch this so that the next time you hear the socialists talking about preserving choices, you’ll understand that it’s all a ruse. Remember that nothing competes with the federal [...]

We’re gonna need a bigger boat.

Imagine you’re on a boat, ankle-deep in water. In the center of the boat is a large hole. Someone tells you to fix the boat. What’s the problem? The hole is permitting water to get into the boat. Unless that hole is plugged, the boat will continue to take on water. Fix the hole and [...]

French toast.

Put a cap on the price of ANYTHING…and when the real VALUE of that thing EXCEEDS that price, then you’ll RUN OUT of that thing and there will be SHORTAGES. Unless of course you RATION that thing so that people can only access it in limited amounts. NOT ONLY THAT….but when the people in charge [...]

First, cause no harm.

The Obama administration and the liberal controlled Congress are obstinately trying to impose their demonstrably inept socialist ideology on America. We’re resisting. This is good. If we hold out until November, we can sweep out the rats and permit US citizens to once again achieve a foothold in their own government. It won’t solve the [...]

Life.

Here’s what you should be most afraid of if the radical left currently in control of Washington get their way on destroying adequate health care in America: The Congressional majority wants to pay for its $1 trillion to $1.6 trillion health bills with new taxes and a $500 billion cut to Medicare. This cut will [...]

Wonderful.

Sometimes an apt analogy is the perfect medicine for thick-headedness. Check this out:

Hide the ball.

There’s a trick play in baseball where the first baseman pretends to throw the ball back to the pitcher after a pickoff attempt, but instead, he actually holds on to it. He hides it in his glove. The idea is to get the runner on first to bite on the ruse and wander off the [...]

The party of no.

Senate Finance Chariman Max Baucus (D-Montana) has issued a warning to lobbyists and stakeholders not to go over to the Republican side of the cafeteria: Russell Sullivan, the top staffer on Finance, and Jon Selib, Baucus’ chief of staff, met with a bloc of more than 20 contract lobbyists, including several former Baucus aides. “They [...]

Health care by the numbers.

From Michael Barone on the Democrats’ demographics for health care in yesterday’s Washington Examiner: An April tracking poll conducted for the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that voters rank changing health care below strengthening the economy, stabilizing Medicare and Social Security, and reducing the federal budget deficit on a list of eight possible priorities. Democrats rank [...]

The end.

I can almost hear Morrison in the background. It’s late, and I want to go watch Jon and Kate on the Tivo, but before you go to bed tonight (or as soon as you get a chance tomorrow) please click through to this link for an excellent analysis of what awaits us when Obama and [...]