Here’s John Stossel:
Would libertarian Stossel let insurance companies run wild? That’s how Bill O’Reilly teases my Factor appearance tonight.
Bill and I at least agree about the problems with Obamacare, especially the out of control costs it would bring. But he thinks that the government must step in to “regulate insurance companies”, to “make the market [...]
“We are held hostage at any given moment by health insurance companies that deny coverage or drop coverage or charge fees that people can’t afford.” — Barack Obama, Aug. 14, 2009.
“We’re seeing this at the same time where not only is there an economic downturn around the country, but we know that insurance companies are [...]
All one needs to know about President Obama’s “bipartisan” health care summit — and his intentions — is succinctly summarized on their own website (which they tried to scrub, but which thanks to Google caching was all for naught).
[Via Michelle Malkin] White House: Where’s the GOP health care plan? Where’s the GOP healthcare plan?
GOP: Um, [...]
Here’s Charles Krauthammer on how the liberal masses have reacted to their lost Senate seat in Massachusetts:
Liberal expressions of disdain for the intelligence and emotional maturity of the electorate have been, post-Massachusetts, remarkably unguarded. New York Times columnist Charles Blow chided Obama for not understanding the necessity of speaking “in the plain words of plain [...]
In a word: ugly. Wimpy from the Popeye cartoon was fond of promising to pay someone Tuesday for a hamburger today. ObamaCare is the inverse of that — the federal government will gladly force us to pay today for an alleged benefit years from now. Even if you support this nightmare of ObamaCare socialized medicine, [...]
Dick Morris brought up the differences between health care cost and quality a little while ago, and one fact stuck out big time: “In 2008, Britain had a cancer death rate 0.25% while the United States had a rate of only 0.18%. The UK cancer death rate was 38% higher than in the United States.” [...]
So I made the point below that one can find parallels between Climate Change and health care vis-a-vis academics constructing their desired result through manipulated data.
We’ve already read some recent studies by academics attempting to prepare the public for rationed care by advising that women get mammograms less often and later in life. More like [...]
Let’s review some basic principles of supply and demand: If a government policy increases the demand for a service, the price of that service tends to rise. If the government prevents prices from rising, shortages develop. The quantity provided is then determined by supply and not demand. In the presence of such excess demand, the [...]
Never confuse conservation with environmentalism. The former promotes images of Teddy Roosevelt establishing national parks (actual parks, that is, not calling something a park when it clearly isn’t just to prevent development); Planting trees, proper stewardship, all that good stuff.
Environmentalism, on the other hand, has become part cult, a substitute religion where “the planet” takes [...]
Over at TownHall.com, Arizona Rep. John Shadegg has a creative op-ed that seeks to personalize how the Democrat’s 1,900-page Obamacare bill would affect a middle-class family, notably through one fictitious Mary Smith.
Just about every adverse effect is covered by Shadegg, but the one that stands out the most to me, the one that exposes how [...]