The incompetence displayed in the Obamacare rollout may certainly make the supporters squirm, and the opposers cheer with heart felt “We told you so”. But focusing on this fiasco is energy misplaced. Obamacare so intensely flawed on so many levels
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From James Taranto’s Best of the Web in The Wall Street Journal, The Young and the Clueless; The trouble is that loss aversion also militates against buying insurance. Especially if you don’t make a lot of money–and many young people don’t–writing that
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My criticisms of Obama Care have been long and many. Scott Grannis at Calafia Beach Pundit has an excellent post summarizing the hubris and damage of this horrendous bill. Read The Obamacare Nightmare. Excerpts: For starters, it is inconceivable that
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Kerry Lauerman writes about outspoken Democrat Camille Paglia at Salon in In “Glittering” return, Paglia lets loose, 10/10/12. Excerpt: The media’s pampering and protection of Obama over the years simply led to his weakening — which was on excruciating public
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In the July 27, 2012 Wall Street Journal the editors write The 1.5% Presidency Excerpt: The tragedy of the Obama Presidency is that it ignored the supply side: the producers, the risk-takers, the salary earners who put in 50 and
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Cliff Asness writes The Healthcare Myths We Must Confront in The American, 6/29/12. Excerpt: Myth #2: The pre-ObamaCare system was ‘insurance’ It was not a system of insurance. Insurance, as practiced everywhere else but healthcare, is about catastrophes. What we
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Holman Jenkins writes in the Wall Street Journal, ObamaCare- Upheld and Doomed, 6/29/12 Excerpt: The solution is a tweak. Republicans already are lip-committed to a national health-insurance charter that allows insurers to design their own policies and market them across
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Cliff Asness writes The Healthcare Myths We Must Confront in The American, 6/29/12. Excerpt: Myth #1: Healthcare prices have soared in the recent past Everyone knows that healthcare prices have soared, but everyone may well be wrong. The statistics we
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I am often a fan of the predictive power of Intrade. But recently it forecast that the Supreme Court would strike down the mandate on Obamacare with better than a 70% certainty. They were wrong. While still a useful tool
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Michael Tanner writes in The National Review Why the Obamacare Ruling Matters, 6/27/12. Excerpts: The average American adds up the costs and benefits and decides that, on the whole, they don’t want the law. It’s not bad marketing; it’s bad
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Andrew Puzder writes Job Creation Is Price for New U.S. Health Law in Bloomberg, 12/26/11: Excerpt: Our company, CKE Restaurants Inc., employs about 21,000 people (our franchisees employ 49,000 more) in Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s restaurants. For months, we have been
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One of my least favorite acts as a business executive is buying health insurance for my employees. Being a small business I am pretty close to the individual needs and preferences of the workers, and there is just no way
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An excellent article on the health care dilemma ‘A Wasted Opportunity’ Wellpoint’s CEO on ObamaCare’s mistakes and how to pick up the political pieces. by By JOSEPH RAGO in the Wall Street Journal excerpts Mrs. Braly says, when 85 cents
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