From Springer’s Blog, The Fine Art of Grubering excerpt: If cynicism and moral bankruptcy were Olympic sports, Jonathan Gruber would have at least two golds locked up. If there was a Hall of Fame for a sport called “Contempt for
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From Commentary, Obamacare Lies and Democracy Excerpt: In a sense, Gruber’s statement doesn’t exactly break new ground. After all, if then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi could say that ObamaCare had to be passed before its contents could be understood, it’s not
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Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber admits to deceiving the pubic in order to pass Obamacare. From The Daily Signal In a newly surfaced video, one of Obamacare’s architects admits a “lack of transparency” helped the Obama administration and congressional Democrats
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from the WSJ Scott Atlas writes ObamaCare’s Anti-Innovation Effect Excerpts: Of the many unintended consequences of the Affordable Care Act, perhaps the least noticed is its threat to innovation. Although most discussions center on the law’s more immediate effects on
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\ from the WSJ, The Myth of ObamaCare’s Affordability by Casey Mulligan excerpt: The law has effects that extend well beyond the employment rate and the average length of the workweek. People, businesses and entire sectors will jockey to reduce
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From Bloomberg News, Megan McArdle writes Obamacare Isn’t What’s Slowing Costs. Excerpt: If health-care cost growth is slowing down because we’re working a lot of inefficiency out of the system, then the slowdown is obviously a big win for everyone
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“As with the Connecticut parking spaces, we have through the entitlements (and through the tax preferences given to employer-based medical benefits) done a great deal to encourage the consumption of health-care services while doing nothing to encourage the production of
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“There are many volumes to be written on the history of what went wrong with American health care, but here is a short and very simplified version: The Roosevelt administration began imposing central planning on broad swathes of the U.S.
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“Strange that I can get an exact price on an iPhone, a Honda Civic, or a pizza, but not on something as essential to my well-being as health care. There are almost no consumer prices in health care. Because there
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VA Scandals Raise The Specter Of Healthcare Rationing The obvious question to ask about the VA scandal is: Why? Why would a VA hospital administrator direct doctors not to perform colonoscopies until patients had three positive tests for bloody stools?
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from Edward Lazear at the Wall Street Journal The Hidden Rot in the Jobs Numbers: excerpt: Although it is often overlooked, a key statistic for understanding the labor market is the length of the average workweek. Small changes in the
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Maryland’s ACA exchange paid $65 million to a contractor outside of the normal procurement process and it is deemed a huge failure. While they are only at half of the goal of 77,600 enrolled by the end of the month
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From The Weekly Standard A Slight Case of Bastardy The curious and irregular conception of Obamacare by Noemie Emery Excerpts: There are written rules that make an act legal, and unwritten ones that make it legitimate, and it is the
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From the Wall Street Journa; Victoria McEvoy writes Why ‘Metrics’ Overload is Bad Medicine. Excerpts: ‘Quality” has been the buzzword in health care for a decade, but the worthy goal is driving health-care providers to distraction. All stakeholders—insurers, patients, hospital
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While trapped in a wonderful room at the St. Regis in Atlanta during the snow storm the domestic goddess and I caught up on a few movies. The surprise for me was The Dallas Buyers Club. A homophobic redneck rodeo
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From Investor’s Business Daily Why Do The Uninsured Hate ObamaCare? Incredibly, more than twice as many uninsured say they’re worse off because of ObamaCare than say it’s helped. What’s more, just 7% of the uninsured say they tried to get coverage through
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From National Review Online, Jeffery Singer writes The ACA: A Train Wreck and a Lie. Excerpts: Before 1996, if you purchased individual health insurance through a broker, you would have been offered a “guaranteed renewability” option. This would guarantee that
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From The Weekly Standard, Christopher Demuth writes The Silence of the Liberals: Collaterally, Obamacare is introducing a new form of government—improvisational government, characterized by continuous ad hoc revisions of statutory law by executive decree. This is a reversion to a
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From ObamaCare Should Take Lessons from Israel in American Thinker: Health care services in Israel account for 7.7% of GDP (the overall average in OECD countries is 9.5%); the difference partly reflects the relatively youthful population (27.9% under 15) compared with the
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Jeffery Singer writes in Reason Online, Health Care’s Third-Party Spending Trap: Nobel-winning economist Milton Friedman, in his masterpiece “Free to Choose,” wrote of four ways to spend money: Category I—You spend your money on something for yourself. Here you are
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Degrading American Democracy
From Commentary, Obamacare Lies and Democracy Excerpt: In a sense, Gruber’s statement doesn’t exactly break new ground. After all, if then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi could say that ObamaCare had to be passed before its contents could be understood, it’s not