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 divide it. [...]

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 the average cost per [...]

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 Insurance [...]

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 [...]

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 of [...]

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 [...]

Trojan horse.

The trojan horse candidate explaining his trojan horse plan to socialize our health care industry.

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 come [...]

Represent.

From the “if we don’t want it, what are our elected officials doing pushing for it” file, comes this latest Rasmussen report:
The health care reform legislation working its way through Congress has lost support over the past month. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 44% of U.S. voters are at least somewhat [...]

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 said, ‘Republicans [...]

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 it [...]

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 company [...]

We bleed money.

Don’t raise taxes. Cut spending. Please. You wouldn’t give a blood transfusion to a patient with an open wound spurting blood all over the place, would you? No, you’d sew up the wound first, right?
Don’t raise taxes to cover spending then until you sew up wounds like SCHIP:
Researchers who actually study the program find that [...]

The health bet.

I havent seen any polling, but I bet “universal” is a word that appeals to most Americans. We all want people to have access to good things like health insurance and quality medical care. Yet Americans should recognize that when politicians talk about “universal” insurance, theyre really talking about “government” insurance. And, as government takes [...]

Obama omelette recipe—first break a few eggs?

Obama Proposes Eliminating Medicare Advantage, Ousting 9 Million Seniors from Their Health Plans (Cato @ Liberty).
For Obama to suggest eliminating Medicare Advantage outright, however, is extraordinary. First, Obama made a campaign promise that he will let Americans keep their current health insurance. Eliminating Medicare Advantage would force 9 million seniors out of their [...]

Please. No universal healthcare.

www.dcexaminer.com >> Opinion.
To much fanfare from both right and left in 2006, Massachusetts became the first state in the nation to require all residents to buy health insurance. A new state health insurance clearinghouse was created, with taxpayers subsidizing those who couldn’t afford to buy coverage. Then Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, promised that “every [...]