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You Get A Pony, He Gets A Pony, Everybody Gets A Pony!
I can imagine the perfect health care system. You are given a card, and if you get sick or injured you go to a doctor or emergency room and present that card and they give you whatever examinations, tests, treatments, … Continue reading
Posted in Affordable Care Act, Health care reform, Obamacare, ObamaTax, Single-Payer
Tagged Affordable Care Act, Health care reform, Obamacare
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Obolacare Open EnROLOLment
Here it is again, that time of year that used to be a simple tradition that’s turned, in the past couple of years, into a week of anxiety and trepidation: Open Enrollment. I am really grateful that my husband’s employer … Continue reading
Posted in Health care reform, Obamacare
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This post will shock Wanda the Teabagee Troll
This will shock Wanda the Teabagee Troll, but I favor national healthcare – Single-Payer or Socialized Medicine. Yep, that’s right. That’s why I said that my ideology doesn’t have a name. I have no illusions. What I envision is not … Continue reading
Some Cold Hard Truth About Obamacare
Transcript via Independent Journal Review: Mr. President, we at Fox News are not the problem. I hate to break it to you, sir. You are. Your words are. Your promises are. We didn’t sell this healthcare law. Sir, you did. … Continue reading
Are You Ready Yet?
Here is the worst part about Obamacare (and it has a lot of really bad parts): Obamacare does nothing to make health care less expensive. It doesn’t even make health care insurance more affordable. By the time the Obamacare Debacle … Continue reading
Vindication
Paul Krugman admits that Sarah Palin was right: Eventually we do have a problem. That the population is getting older, health care costs are rising…there is this question of how we’re going to pay for the programs. The year 2025, … Continue reading
Posted in Health care reform, Obamacare, Palinpalooza, Sarah Palin
Tagged Health care reform, Sarah Palin
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People need health care, not health care insurance
Fareed Zakaria: Curbing the cost of health care Many liberals believe that the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — is unpopular only because most Americans don’t understand it. There is some truth to this: Studies show that the core provisions … Continue reading
Posted in Affordable Care Act, Health care reform, Obamacare, ObamaTax
Tagged Affordable Care Act, Health care reform, Obamacare
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Rectal Myopia
Greg Sargent: How did legal observers and Obamacare backers get it so wrong? Many people have blamed Obama Solicitor General Donald Verrilli’s poor defense of the law for the sudden jeopardy Obamacare finds itself in, and there’s no denying he … Continue reading
Why does our health care cost so much?
Ezra Klein: Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France There is a simple reason health care in the United States costs more than it does anywhere else: The prices are higher. That may sound obvious. But … Continue reading
The Crawdad Hole 