A new article of mine at PJ: On Health Care, ‘Obstructionist’ Charge a Big Miss
Please take a look at my latest article at PJ. If you want to comment, you can do so here or there. Or both!
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Private insurance isn’t perfect—but I’ll take it over the public option any day
I’ve been experiencing a tiny health care crisis myself. Sunday night, something or other happened to my knee—one of the body parts of mine that had always been A-OK till now. I woke up in significant pain, and the pain … Continue reading →
Noonan on the flaws in Obama’s health care reform
Peggy Noonan makes some good points here: Every big idea that works is marked by simplicity, by clarity. You can understand it when you hear it, and you can explain it to people. …The president’s health-care plan is not clear, … Continue reading →
The problem with health care reform—and Waterloos
Some have said that health care reform is Obama’s Waterloo, or will be soon. The analogy is far from perfect; for example, Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo was followed by his abdication, surrender, and exile, and it’s hard to believe this … Continue reading →
Obama opens mouth, inserts foot: on diabetic amputations and preventative medicine
By now you’ve probably seen or read a transcript of this excerpt from Obama’s healthcare talk in Portsmouth NH: The American College of Surgeons has come back with a critique and correction that points out that a surgeon actually gets … Continue reading →
The shocking radicalization of the center Right
Those unruly un-American mobs of enraged independents and conservatives (and perhaps even a sprinkling of moderate Democrats) keep annoying our elected representatives with their inconvenient anger at the fact that the Obama administration and Congress seem to be intent on … Continue reading →
Paglia half gets it, too
I wrote of Peggy Noonan the other day that, although she’s beginning to “get” Obama and what he’s about, she’s only halfway there. Noonan still thinks he’s just receiving bad advice or making missteps, and that he’s not the master … Continue reading →
The Left tells the truth about itself: the end justifies the means
The title of this op-ed by LA Times columnist Dan Neil caught my eye: “It’s Time to Fight Dirty.” The piece is an admonition to the Left to take the gloves off (and here I thought it already had!) and … Continue reading →
Those demon astroturfers at the town hall meetings
I’ve got a piece up at Pajamas Media today on the Democrat demonizing of the health care reform opponents at the town hall meetings. Please take a look and have a read. [ADDENDUM: I moved this to keep it at … Continue reading →
Don’t laugh quite so hard at Laffer: on Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare
In the dystopia thread, commenter “ModDem” (moderate Democrat? modern Democrat? modest Democrat? modish Democrat?) writes: If the whole idea [of Obamacare] is unconstitutional then I guess you think Medicare and Medicaid are unconstitutional? Or did you not realize they were … Continue reading →
Health care reform: I am sick and tired of…
…bad faith, distortions, and lies on the part of the bill’s proponents—plus their counter-accusations that it’s actually only the opponents of the bill who are guilty of bad faith, distortions, and lies. Many of you have probably already seen the … Continue reading →
Chronic pain, health insurance, and me
Almost twenty years ago I hurt my back and sustained injuries to both arms that left me with what’s known as neuropathic pain. We all know what pain from an injury feels like. But if you’re fortunate, you don’t know—and … Continue reading →