Saturday, January 4, 2014
First time in the snow!
The Perverse Exemption...
The Perverse Exemption... James Taranto is back from his vacation, and in his first column for the year he analyzes in detail the plight of Edie Sundby, the Stage 4 gall bladder cancer survivor who wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece critical of ObamaCare a while back. Taranto dug for details about the impact that ObamaCare has had on her, and the results are sobering and frightening: she and her husband are paying much more money for much less coverage, contrary to claims of the progressive ObamaCare supporters. There are many parallels between the Sundby's situation and our own, so this was a particularly meaningful read for us. It's also a good crosscheck on my own investigations, which closely parallel what Mr. Taranto found.
When something that so affects our life is at the mercy of our political process at the federal level, it's a good time to be worried...
When something that so affects our life is at the mercy of our political process at the federal level, it's a good time to be worried...
Repealing “ObamaCare”...
Repealing “ObamaCare”... That's the title of an opinion piece in today's Wall Street Journal, but it wasn't what I expected. It's about some academics at Lake Superior State University who want to ban the word “ObamaCare”, not the law. I especially liked the concluding paragraph:
Despite the Lake Superior injunction, we'll continue to use ObamaCare for this offense against medicine, not least because the law neither protects patients nor offers affordable care. Ban that.
The U.K.'s NHS leads the way...
The U.K.'s NHS leads the way ... to fewer doctors. The number of doctors per 1,000 citizens is now lower in the U.K. than in all other EU countries except Slovenia, Romania, and Poland. And this is the model the progressives hold forth for the U.S.!
Repeal of ObamaCare can't come fast enough for me...
Repeal of ObamaCare can't come fast enough for me...
Scientists behaving badly...
Scientists behaving badly... NASA scientists, this time. They're silently revising their projections after the fact. As Robert Zimmerman puts it:
Scientists so good they can predict things after they happen...