Email received. Author unknown. Let me get this straight. We’re going to be “gifted” with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don’t, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it but exempts themselves from [...]

Clarice Feldman on American Thinker details the terrible week experienced by our ruling class. An excerpt from his post deals with the fraud of Obamacare: Professor Jacobson at Legal Insurrection summarizes the work if Mary Katherine Ham and Guy Benson, in cataloguing the President’s ,Pelosi’s and Reid’s lies about ObamaCare, [...]

The article below was posted by An Objectivist Individualist. It is interesting on two levels. First, it clearly shows the adverse impact of ObamaCare on your future health care. Second, while dealing with healthcare, it is a perfect example of what incentives and disincentives do to individuals. Every rule and [...]

“Now, let me get this straight….We are going to pass a health care plan written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it but exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president who also hasn’t read it and [...]

While one can never be certain about how this economic crisis will play out, most of us have various probabilities of certain events happening and use these to develop forecasts. John Mauldin (see writeup here) recently explained how difficult such forecasts are because of a complex chain of interdependent variables. [...]

From World News Daily, a hopeful sign that may signal a massive change in attitudes after the November elections. One can only hope. 8 more in Congress sign on for Obamacare repeal Read the latest now on WND.com. They are U.S. Reps. Jo Ann Emerson of Missouri, Frank Wolf of [...]

The Frankenstein monster known as ObamaCare is a mishmashed Rube Goldberg contraption the like of which has never been seen before. In ways not yet imagined, it will haunt the economy, prevent a recovery and have to be amended again and again and again. The uncertainty its passage created for [...]

Welcome to the New Hell of ObamaCare. This welcome is directed specifically at US citizens who will have their healthcare and health costs adversely affected. (That, by the way, is virtually everyone.) As described in a Wall Street Journal editorial: … the real problem is ObamaCare’s substantive defects, some only now [...]

Liberalism’s idea of creating jobs has always been wrong. They consistently show no understanding of people, business or markets. Hat tip to Chuck Rogers for this concise summary of how the new health care law works: The new health care law provides for small businesses to receive tax credits for employee [...]

Obamacare on Life Support by  Maggie Piggot 05/24/2010 Obamacare is turning out to be a series of broken promises. It’s been the law of the land for less than two months, and already the President and Congress have reneged on vows made to the American people. For example, the nonpartisan [...]

Intervention into markets produces unintended consequences. The price controls of Medicare and Medicaid have been affecting medical practitioners for years.  According to Mish, Medicare is now imploding: “Doctors losing money doing “God’s Work” in Medicare, are tired of the losses. Many refuse to take new patients. Others have thrown in [...]

What Health Law Didn’t Fix: Medicare Doctor Pay by Julie Rovner May 6, 2010 Listen to the Story Morning Edition For the third time this year, Congress has just days to avert a scheduled 21 percent cut in pay to doctors who treat seniors and others on the Medicare program. [...]

From Cato via Mish: 1099 Mandate From Hell Slipped into Health Bill The CATO Organization is noting Costly IRS Mandate Slipped into Health Bill In a recent summary, tax information firm RIA notes the types of transactions covered by the new 1099 rules… Basically, businesses will have to issue 1099s whenever they [...]

I found the following political analogy/satire very well done. It is from Jeannie DeAngelis and entitled Political Pissfest. Welcome to the Political Pissfest Territory is defined as an area, which an animal will defend against intruders of the same species. According to Robert Ardrey, “A territorial species of animals, therefore, is [...]

The Taxing Power of Obamacare by Robert A. Levy , Robert A. Levy is chairman of the Cato Institute and a director of the Institute for Justice. This article appeared on National Review Online on April 20, 2010. The litigation battle has begun. While the legal arguments are technical, the basic [...]

Folks, understand what is happening here to cover up the condition of the banks and the economy. I just spent several days with my cousin, an MD from rural Missouri. His tales amazed me, and I am not used to being amazed as to how people are abusing the system. [...]

Kyle-Anne Shiver writes a devastatingly effective column on the empty suit known as our President. She first questions his purported intelligence: If there is a single thing that Barack Obama has proved to the American people — beyond any reasonable doubt — it is that he is not smart.  And [...]

“Falling wages rates are the consequence of prior bad policies and decisions.” Jerry O’Driscoll Economic decline can be seen starting as early as three decades ago. The real weekly wage in the US is lower today than it was in 1964 (it crossed below that level in 1977 and has [...]

I received the following email from a friend. I don’t know the doctor but thought his take on the new healthcare reform was worthwhile. His predictions seem reasonable to one not in the medical profession. I am not inclined to pass along each and every message received over the internet.  [...]

According to the Wall Street Journal, the first cost increases of ObamaCare have already shown up: Yesterday AT&T announced that it will be forced to make a $1 billion writedown due solely to the health bill, in what has become a wave of such corporate losses. Democrats decided to raise [...]

The recent passage of Obamacare is madness not seen before in this country. Any cursory review of government indicates that it fails at everything it does. It destroys rather than heals.  Just a few examples are the following: Social Security is insolvent. Medicare and Medicaid are insolvent. The Post Office, [...]

Commentary on the health care legislation: See What They Have Done: The Myths of the Health Care Legislation By Jeff Harding March 22nd, 2010 This is from Cato’s Michael Cannon who is their resident expert on health care. Myth: This legislation won’t cut Medicare. Reductions in Medicare outlays finance about half [...]

A new data point now to be supplied byZerohedge on a daily basis. Emphasis added by me. The largest deficit in history was the profligate George Bush. His record, $455 Billion in 12 months. That looks like small change now. We added half of that in just the  past three [...]

According to the latest CBS polling, Nancy Pelosi has an 11% favorability rating and Harry Reid an 8%. Those are amazing results. Given the American educational system, one would think that Osama bin Laden would poll that high. Root Canals and Colonoscopies would likely outpoll these two. History Moves SlowlyPolitical [...]