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Gruber’s Conflict of Interest

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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Getting Beyond the Bad Data on the ACA

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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The Mask of Obamacare

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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The Ends Justify the Means

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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Investing in Politicians

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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Improvisational Government

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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Israeli Health Care System

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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An Inadequate Governing Philosophy

from the Editors of National Review-  Core Incompetency: The Department of Health and Human Services blames “inadequate management oversight and coordination” — in a word, leadership— for these problems. Whose “inadequate management oversight”? HHS does not seem to want to dwell

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Lying For Justice

Mona Charen writes in The National Review,  The Lies That Sold Obamacare. Excerpt: Remember Obama’s mother? Though the airwaves currently echo with the vow, “If you like your plan . . . ,” I keep remembering Obama’s account of his mother being denied coverage

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The Smartest President Ever

From Thus Spake Obama by Mark Steyn in National Review. I love when humor enters politics. I love it when arrogance meets reality.  I love it when we mix the two. Excerpts: Still, as historian Michael Beschloss pronounced the day after his

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A Time To Gloat

Jonah Goldberg writes Obamacare Schadenfreudarama in National Review Online: But as a political and ideological matter, this is beyond fantastic. For years we’ve been told that Democrats were more “reality-based,” that “facts have a liberal bias,” in the words of Paul Krugman,

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The Proper Fate of Charisma

Fouad Ajami writes When the Obama Magic Died in the Wall Street Journal, 11/15/13. Excerpts: The current troubles of the Obama presidency can be read back into its beginnings. Rule by personal charisma has met its proper fate. The spell has been

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Unscrambled Eggs

From Thus Spake Obama by Mark Steyn in National Review. I love when humor enters politics. I love it when arrogance meets reality.  I love it when we mix the two. Excerpts: On Thursday, he passed a new law at

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Five Million Cancellations

Jonah Goldberg writes Obamacare Schadenfreudarama in National Review Online: Here’s a number that isn’t tiny: Five million people — and counting — have lost their health insurance, despite the president’s years of “you can keep your plan” promises. The president has apologized, sort of.

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A Third World Health Care Experience

Jonah Goldberg writes Obamacare Schadenfreudarama in National Review Online: In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, it took about five minutes for liberals to cast the chaos and confusion of the disaster as a searing indictment of not just the Bush administration but

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The Bernie Madoff Health Care Plan

Jonah Goldberg writes Obamacare Schadenfreudarama in National Review Online: The hubris of our ocean-commanding commander-in-chief surely isn’t news to readers of this website. He’s said that he’s smarter and better than everyone who works for him. His wife informed us

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A Necessary Evil or a Necessary Good

From Jonah Goldberg in The National Review Online, Father Knows Best: The president’s more intellectually honest defenders have said exactly that. “Vast swathes of policy are based on the correct presumption that people don’t know what’s best for them. Nothing

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The Unique Challenge of Overturning Obamacare

From The Weekly Standard, Killing Obamacare by Jay Cost: Why should we believe that the federal government is remotely capable of managing something as complicated as American health care? The complexities of the task make a mockery of the very notion of

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Cowardly Irresponsible

Charles Cook writes in National Review Online  The Single-Payer Fantasy. Excerpt: Reassuring as this tale might be to those who are worriedly surveying the damage that Healthcare.gov has wrought upon their project, it remains self-evidently absurd. Obamacare was passed into

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The Rollout Reader

Comments on the disastrous health care roll out. Delaying from Behind by James Taranto at the WSJ Our younger readers–those who were born yesterday–may not remember when delaying ObamaCare was considered a wild idea, its exponents limited to crazy right-wing terrorists. Times have

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