Negative Space: ObamaCare
- Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father
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David Goldhill, inspired by the unnecessary death of his father in a hospital surrounded by great doctors, nurses, and technology, describes in detail why health care today kills people—and then charges for it. In no other industry could a business fail so miserably, and then send a bill for having failed.
He also argues persuasively that the ACA took all the bad parts of our health care system—and made them worse.
- Community health acts to improve Obamacare
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Democrats now want to talk about how to improve Obamacare. Here’s how to do it.
- The dark side of bureaucratic health care
- The death panel comes in many forms, and is a natural outgrowth of health care managed by government bureaucracy.
- Democrat Chris Murphy: Obamacare is “the end of health care”
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From the mouths of hypocrites, comes wisdom. It’s almost biblical.
- Democrats deny Obamacare savior three times
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Before the cock crowed twice, disciples of Jonathan Gruber deny knowing him three times in response to Republican accusations.
- Do you believe in cronies?
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“Nobody should go broke just because they get sick. They should go broke paying higher premiums to my cronies.”
- Economies of scale and government-run health care
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Economies of scale only produce lower prices when people are allowed a choice of service providers—including the choice to forego the service. Government-run programs do not benefit from economies of scale—in fact, scaling up will cause increased prices when the industry is run by the government.
- Election lessons: Obamacare and how compromise works
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As Republicans work into 2017, they need to learn how negotiations and compromise work. President Trump may not be the best teacher, but he at least understands how to negotiate.
- Essential Revolution: The Return of the Republicans
- The crime of the day is when you do it again.
- Firewall affordable care act failures
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Because Senate Democrats are not going to repeal the mess that is the ACA, we need to firewall the failing parts of it in order to keep health care and health insurance costs from escalating too much.
- Fixes, fast and furious
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It’s like a dam of fixes has broken. Now everyone realizes just how math-challenged Obamacare is, and wants to fix it.
- Health care reform: walking into quicksand
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The first step, when you walk into quicksand, is to walk back out. Health providers today are in the business of dealing with human resources departments and government agencies. Their customers are bureaucrats. Their best innovations will be in the fields of paperwork and red tape. If we want their innovations to be health care innovations, their customers need to be their patients.
- Health insurance reform? What health insurance reform?
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The Truth About Republicans: they don’t want to repeal Obamacare.
- How many legs does the ACA have?
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If you call public assistance insurance, how many people have insurance? The left wants us to believe that, like Lincoln’s apocryphal dog, the ACA has five legs. But when you call a tail a leg, that doesn’t mean the dog can walk on it.
- If you like your health insurance, you can go screw yourself
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The fix is in. Last year, on December 15, I signed up for non-ACA health insurance after moving to a new state; I’ve just been notified it will end in December. The transitional policy fix appears to only apply to policies in effect as of October 1, 2013.
- Most Open and Transparent Lies Ever
- When we were promised a transparent administration, we didn’t realize it was transparently self-serving.
- New York Times to cut jobs ahead of Obamacare
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According to Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, the cuts are unavoidable. “The Times cannot afford as many employees under the Affordable Care Act.”
- ObamaCare: it’s a tax, bitches
- Circling closer to the bureaucracy event horizon: now we have to list all the things we don’t do and check to see if we have to pay taxes on not doing them.
- Only four-year-old policies grandfathered
- Aetna, in response to a Facebook post, responded definitively with why my policy was canceled under the ACA.
- Please take pity on this health care orphan
- Yeah, because of a massive regulatory bill that kills job creation, young adults don’t have jobs, and because they don’t have jobs, they don’t have health insurance.
- President Obama blames EU, self, for Brexit vote
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I failed to understand issues of critical importance to the British people, says President. “I’ve learned my lesson.”
- President Obama outlines Thanksgiving campaign
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Organizing for Action and My Barack Obama ask young people to talk politics over Thanksgiving dinner.
- President responds to NBC, grants conservative exemption
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Conservatives will also be exempted from paying more than 10% in taxes, as well as from marching up and down the square praising the President.
- Public Citizen lies to its own supporters about single-payer health care?
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The biggest danger for supporters of single-payer is that the ACA is very, very close to single-payer, and they can’t face that it is causing a catastrophic rise in costs and a corresponding reduction in quality.
- Republicans and America must provide an alternative
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If America does not provide an alternative to the evils of progressivism gone awry in the world, it is lost.
- A tale of two negotiators
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If you want to see how Republicans in Congress fail to pass successful reforms, compare the House Obamacare “repeal” with the White House’s budget.
- A tale of two speeches: Condi Rice and Paul Ryan
- Rice and Ryan. Now there’s a ticket.
- Toward a permanent political class
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If politics has become so complicated that only a political class can manage it, then Democracy is dead. Citizens should not be allowed to become politicians, nor should they be allowed to vote for which politicians take office.
