All is now explained. When President Obama said, “”If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period” he actually meant to say “periods,” plural. As in “…”, otherwise known as the ellipsis: … Continue reading →
…and says he’s also the world’s happiest man. I decided to post this as a feel-good story because I figured we need some relief from all-Obamacare all the time. Then I noticed that the groom, who is from Turkey, went … Continue reading →
It’s clear: It’s not easy to get a lie into a presidential speech. Every draft address is circulated to the White House senior staff and key Cabinet officials in something called the “staffing process.” Every line is reviewed by dozens … Continue reading →
David Cutler wrote this memo on health reform implementation in May of 2010, about six weeks after Obamacare was passed. I suggest you read the whole thing, and remember as you read it that Cutler was a supporter of the … Continue reading →
…with their junk policies before Obamacare came along and fixed it for you. From an article in the WSJ by Edie Sundby, who suffers from gallbladder cancer and yet has outlived her original dire prognosis by years: Since March 2007 … Continue reading →
I’ve got a new piece up at PJ. It’s about MIT economist Jonathan Gruber’s claim that only 3% of the population will be hurt financially by premium changes as a result of Obamacare, a statistic that’s currently being trumpeted by … Continue reading →
President Obama repeatedly and brazenly lied to the American people about keeping their health insurance plans and their doctors, and now he uses sophistry and more lies to weasel out of it, adding that they should just “Shop around” for … Continue reading →
The inspiration is Bob Dylan’s “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” (you can find Dylan’s original lyrics here). The singer for this version is Obama, of course. And I didn’t even have to change the lyrics all … Continue reading →
It may well be that what’s been going on lately with Obamacare is that imagology has met reality. Before the rollout, everything was theoretical. Even now, almost everything is a prediction and projection about what we think will happen. But … Continue reading →
Obamacare has so dominated the headlines it’s easy to neglect other important news. But there’s plenty of it: I suppose this first one in connected with Obamacare, too, but it’s a different aspect of it. The D.C. Circuit Court of … Continue reading →
…before they were against it: Senate Democrats voted unanimously three years ago to support the Obamacare rule that is largely responsible for some of the health insurance cancellation letters that are going out. In September 2010, Senate Republicans brought a … Continue reading →
I am going to post an excerpt from a post I wrote in March of 2010, two days after the ACA was passed and signed into law. I’m not doing it just to say how prescient I was. And I … Continue reading →