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Thoughts After the Supreme Court’s ACA Decision
People are naturally wondering why Justice Roberts changed his mind as the Court considered the decision it would render on the Affordable Care Act. Some news analysts suggest Roberts wanted to protect...
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Gotcha! Gotcha! ACA Blues
Ask me a stupid question, and you’ll get a stupid answer. That’s how Mitt Romney must feel after reporters pestered him on the Fourth of July with queries about whether the ACA’s tax penalty, or...
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ACA Sword of Damocles
When I saw the phrase sword of Damocles in the past, I sort of wondered what it looked like. Who was Damocles, anyway, and why does his sword hang over people’s heads? Well, that’s still a mystery, but...
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ACA crashes and burns
“Obamacare has arrived” Humpty Dumpty sat on the people, Humpty Dumpty cracked his steeple; All the king’s geeks and all the king’s ken, Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
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Health care horror the day before Halloween
Mr. President, you’re going to go to Boston to speak in support of the Affordable Care Act? You want to do that because Republicans enacted model health care legislation here in 2006? Perhaps you think...
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Incompetence redux
Sometimes you read an article that captures the moment – and the past, and the future – so well. Jonah Goldberg’s article in National Review does that: Obamacare Schadenfreudarama That’s the way the...
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The president grants a hardship exemption
“Millions of people facing the cancellation of health insurance policies will be allowed to buy catastrophic coverage and will be exempt from penalties if they go without insurance next year, the White...
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National Propaganda Radio: cheerleading and coercion go together
We might as well call NPR National Propaganda Radio, not National Public Radio. Have you noticed the nature of their coverage of the ACA lately, as we approached the March 31 enrollment deadline? First...
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Pajama Boy’s practicalities
Remember Pajama Boy? He’s a year and a half old now. He was supposed to help the Affordable Care Act drum up …Continue reading →
View ArticleAt its low point, Democratic party can redeem itself
Meantime, you will see Democrats struggle to win electoral support for at least another ten years, if they do not engage in reasonable efforts to correct the bizarre series of mistakes they made when...
View ArticleWhy political fights seem pointless and dangerous
One's measure for success has to be greater than assertion of control at the expense of other people's freedom.Continue reading →
View ArticleDoes intellectual dishonesty work?
Questions about police Read: http://t.co/CwpywJyxb9 — Steven Greffenius (@sgreffenius) January 3, 2015 Does intellectual dishonesty work? – Intellectual dishonesty appears …Continue reading →
View ArticleCorrect direction for health care reform
We have to find a way to return simple profitability to our health care markets. If we cannot do that, the supply of high quality, economical, and timely health care will continue to decline.Continue...
View ArticleRepeal and replace ACA with single-payer: we have waited a long time for this...
It was all bullshit. They knew it, too, or should have. The reason Jonathan Gruber said we were all too stupid to understand ACA is that no one can understand bullshit, not even MIT professors.Continue...
View ArticleThoughts on ACA’s individual mandate
To use a popular oceanic metaphor, removal of the individual mandate would not cause a tsunami of bad consequences that would overwhelm us. Defenders of established institutions too commonly use fear...
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