Posts Tagged ‘government mandates’
Health Care Reform Hocus Pocus
Health insurance reform is about give and take. If you waddle through the maze and countless pages in all the various bills before Congress you really have to wonder what is going to come out on the other end if and when this massive spending bill is finalized. I have wondered about all the new taxes to pay for health insurance (supposedly for [...]
Obamacare Close to a Vote
Back from the dead, Obamacare now seems like it will come to a vote. The CBO (Congressional Budget Office) has put a price tag on the latest version that just barely comes in under PresBO's limit of $900 billion. The version of the bill draft that the CBO and JCT analysts used would require most legal U.S. residents to have health insurance; set [...]
Abortion Secrets
The latest fly in the ointment of health care reform is whether the new plan(s) will cover abortions. No one want's to handle that hot potato. An Obama administration official refused Sunday to rule out the possibility that federal tax money might be used to pay for abortions under proposed health care legislation. Peter R. Orszag, the White [...]
Poppa Washington
The Oracle of Washington, who knows all, see's all, is poised to pronounce what is good for us in the way of health care. This is the same group that thought it was a great idea to make housing available to everyone regardless of their ability to repay their mortgage. The same group that thinks spending more than you earn is a great idea. First [...]
Ta-Da!
According to the New York Times the House has revealed a plan for sweeping health care reform in the United States. But there are a few hitches. They don't know how much it will cost. They don't know how to fund it. But other than that . . . The draft bill would require all Americans to carry health insurance. Most employers would have to [...]
Unfair Competition
Say you owned a business selling hot dogs on the street corner. Hot dogs are easy to prepare, affordable for most and in high demand (especially at lunch time). You have run this business for some time, have established clientele for repeat busienss and even pick up new clients from time to time. Even though there are restaurants nearby, you [...]
Mass Revisited
It has been a while since we looked at the Massachusetts experiment to provide universal health care, so we decided to take a closer look. We were prompted, at least in part, by the fact that the folks in Washington who think money grows on trees seem to be eyeing the Mass plan as a model of efficiency and something that should spread to the other [...]
Good News, Bad News
After trudging through deserts, swamps and steamy jungles for days, the troops were called to order and addressed by the Commander. "We have good news, and we have bad news. First, the good news. Everyone get's a change of underwear." Cheers go up from the crowd. "Now, the bad news. Joe, you change with Sam. Sam, you change with Bill. Bill you [...]
Pig Farts and COBRA
LBJ conceived the Great Society to eliminate poverty and racial injustice. George H. W. Bush created the No Child Left Behind to provide quality basic education to all children. Obama is promising there will be No Patients Left Behind as part of his master plan to save the USA from economic collapse. We still have poverty, racial inequity and [...]
Star Chamber Medicine
The Star Chamber was a English court of law where sessions were held in secret, with no indictments, no right of appeal, no juries, and no witnesses. If Washington has their way, we may see something similar in our health care system. In a recent editorial at Bloomberg.com, Betsy McCaughey offers this view of the Spendulus Bill. The bill's [...]
