From Jonah Goldberg in Townhall, Jonathan Gruber Should’ve Been Time’s Person of the Year For similar reasons, I think Time missed an opportunity in not putting Gruber on the cover. Tea partiers and Wall Street occupiers disagree on a great
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from Gruber’s Pathetic Congressional Testimony in The National Review by John Fund: Despite his constant memory lapses, what can we fairly deduce from the role of Jonathan Gruber in Obamacare? A person who advised the Congressional Budget Office in a formal capacity
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Ms. Lummis’s story during the Gruber hearing about her husband’s death demonstrates a tool often used by the left that the right needs to learn. It is not good enough to attack bad policies like Obamacare with theories and analysis
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Victor Davis Hanson writes in The National Review, Liberalism in Ruins Excerpts: Obamacare was, in the end, little more than a clumsy effort to take over the health-care system by redistributing resources from the supposedly too-well-off to the more noble
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Chuck Schumer lays a harsh and accurate assessment on his fellow Democrats. From The Wall Street Journal, Schumer’s ObamaCare Mea Culpa (link may require a subscription) excerpt: The Senator called the law a distraction from the “middle-class-oriented programs” his party should
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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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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 Wall Street Journal, The ObamaCare-IRS Nexus, The supposedly independent agency harassed the administration’s political opponents and saved its health-care law, by Kimberly Strassel excerpt: To summarize: The IRS (famed for nitpicking and prosecuting the tax law), chose to authorize
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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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Chicago and Black Criminality Many places with less-restrictive gun laws have less gun violence than Chicago, which already sports some of the toughest gun restrictions in the country. The gun-ownership rate in rural areas is higher than in urban areas—a
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From Daniel Greenfield’s excellent blog, Sultan Knish, The Inequality of Access: Excerpts: Battling income inequality leads directly to inequality of access by putting the equalizers in charge of picking winners and losers through the agency of an expanding government that promises
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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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another home run from The Sultan Knish, Daniel Greenfield: Government Power is an Economic Inequality Excerpts: The liberal defenders of government power attack concentrations of wealth, but in the true concentration of wealth is not found in the hands of
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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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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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The utter failure of the ACA website roll out is just a cover for the fact that the real failure is the plan itself. The shitty website does not explain the cancellations and the painfully higher costs. But the disaster
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