Category Archives: ObamaCare

Obamacare and Moral Hazard (Screw Obamacare)

President Obama’s solicitor general, defending the national health care law on Wednesday, told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn’t like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money. Way to incentivize productivity.   … Continue reading

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Medical Doctors considering “Going Galt”?

Sure seems that way after reading this article… Second Opinion: Filthy Rich Doctors Hide Boxes of Cash Under their Gilded Beds We can put off the discussion as we have been for years, but the fundamental issue is this: To … Continue reading

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Waivergate

Sweet. Although the administration has approved more than 1,300 Obamacare waivers and published the recipients’ application information online, it has not made public which companies and other entities have been denied waivers and why they were denied. Obama’s Department of … Continue reading

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Politics and Obamacare waivers

Nancy Pelosi and waivers. Just a small foreshadowing of the interaction between politics and healthcare. Pelosi’s district secured almost 20 percent of the latest issuance of waivers nationwide, and the companies that won them didn’t have much in common with … Continue reading

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More waivers

We’re talking Obamacare. What a surprise. Geez, I feel like I’m missing out somehow.

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Obamacare: A Preview

A new poll of 838 Massachusetts doctors finds patients are still waiting weeks — in some cases as long as a month and a half — for non-urgent appointments with primary care physicians and certain specialists. More here. Where else … Continue reading

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Crybabies

Big Pharma that is. They’re getting what they deserve.

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Obamacare: Sinking popularity

Poll: Support for health care law drops to 35%

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Where’s my waiver?

Despite union workers only making up 11.9% of the workforce, 45.55% of waiver beneficiaries are unionized! Whoulda thunk it? More here.

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Cuts Leave Patients With Medicaid Cards, but No Specialist to See

Imagine that, those nasty unintended consequences. Of course, it’s nothing that can’t be fixed with another rule and regulation isn’t it Progressives? LAFAYETTE, La. — Eight-year-old Draven Smith was expelled from school last year for disruptive behavior, and he is … Continue reading

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Break a law by doing nothing

Obamacare making you a criminal? For the first time in U.S. history, a personal inaction (not purchasing something, in this case, a health- insurance plan) will be deemed unlawful. The person not committing this act (or is it committing an … Continue reading

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Maine: One helluva an Obamacare Waiver

The entire state of Maine gets an Obamacare waiver. Aside from Maine’s insurance experiment being a failure, why do they need a waiver on overhead expenses? If Maine’s own ObamaCare precursor had worked to achieve cost control, then why does … Continue reading

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Medicare: $48 billion, Private Health Insurance Companies: $12.7 billion

That’s $48 billion in estimated fraudulent losses and improper claims by Medicare compared to the $12.7 billion in p http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/medicare-loses-nearly-four-times-much-money-health-insurers-make_552860.htmlthink that government-run health care is a model of efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Last year, total outlays for Medicare were $509 billion; therefore, Medicare … Continue reading

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Acne: No health insurance options?

A recent Daily Camera editorial and a letter to the editor both leave the distinct impression that if you have, one would assume, serious acne that individual insurance is not available to you.  First of all, there IS an element of truth … Continue reading

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Health Care Cooperatives in Colorado

Over at the Daily Camera columnist Clay Evans explores Colorado Senator Irene Aguilar’s steps towards heathcare reform that would form a study group on health care cooperatives. I tried to post a comment in the comments section but it was … Continue reading

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Null and Void

Obamacare Judge Roger Vinson said as a result of the unconstitutionality of the “individual mandate” that requires people to buy insurance, the entire law must be thrown out. AsAsAsAsIAs everyone knows, As everyone knows, the endgame will be held at … Continue reading

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Obamacare for thee but not for me

Waivers for Favors: Big Labor’s Obamacare escape hatch Most noteworthy: One-fourth of all the waivers (182) have gone to Big Labor groups across the country so far. Hypocrites. 

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Idaho, 6 Other States, to “Nullify” ObamaCare

Sweet The other states? Idaho is not the only state considering nullification as a remedy. Six others, including Maine, Montana, Oregon, Nebraska, Texas and Wyoming, are also considering bills that would in essence nullify the president’s signature on the reform … Continue reading

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Find your Obamacare repeal pledge…

here.

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How many states suing the Fed’s over Obamacare?

25

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