This article on Obamacare was a bit longer and had to be cut down a bit. Where I mentioned President Obama’s statement in the State of the Union speech, I included the following snippet from it. Now, I have heard rumors that a few of you still have concerns about our new health care law. […]
Don’t Blame Obamacare For Job & Insurance Losses, It’s Corporate Greed
Every American should be tired of taking the brunt of an economic downturn they were not responsible for. Every American should be tired of seeing record corporate profits as wages stagnate or fall. UPS just announced that it will be dropping working spouses who can get insurance from their own employers. In defense of UPS […]
Colonoscopy, A Justification For Obamacare But Single Payer Is Still Best
Last week I read the New York Times article “The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill” by Elisabeth Rosenthal. The article started with the following chart. Suffice it to say that anyone reading the above chart should be appalled. The chart above shows that Americans are paying much more for the same procedures, at times by several […]
7 Million To Be Pushed Out Of Job-Based Insurance. Let’s Hope For Millions More
When one hears a title of a story like “Seven million will lose insurance under Obama health law”, the rule thumb is to first panic. Should not Obamacare have ensured that that would not occur? When one further dives into the story and realize that it means seven million will lose insurance provided by their […]
Government Healthcare Delivery More Efficient Than Private Sector
America’s safety net, specifically Medicare is continuously under attack. Many politicians claim that its growth rate makes the budget deficit untenable lest there be substantial changes; in other words, draconian cuts. An article in the Business Insider by Joe Weisenthal is dispelling that myth. He states The conventional wisdom on the deficit is: Right now […]