Category Archives: Healthcare

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Bummed That She’ll Have Inexpensive Health Insurance In Congress

But she’ll take the cheap insurance rather than protesting and refusing, all as she pushes for single payer, er, Medicare for all (The Hill) Incoming Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) tweeted Saturday that she was frustrated to learn that her health-care costs would be chopped by more than half upon entering Congress, accusing her fellow lawmakers […]

Democrats Who Didn’t Want Obamacare To Apply To Them Now Want Vote On Single Payer

Harken back to the early days of Obamacare, when we learned that members of Congress and their staffs were exempt from Obamacare, and that they wanted nothing to do with being in it. Now we get Left wants a vote on single-payer bill in new Congress Progressive Democrats are pushing for a vote on a […]

Strange: President Trump’s Making It Easier For Employers To Pay Workers For Health Coverage

Wait, I thought Trump wanted to take health insurance away from everybody? No? Shockingly, this appeared on CNN, including the graphic Trump makes it easier for employers to pay workers for health coverage The Trump administration is expanding employers’ ability to give workers cash to buy heath care coverage elsewhere, including on the Obamacare exchanges, […]

Uh Oh: US Drops To 27th On Healthcare

This is horrible, and must be the fault of President Donald Trump, right? Well, there’s several very important things missing from this article The US was once a leader for healthcare and education — now it ranks 27th in the world US investments in healthcare and education haven’t changed much in the last three decades […]

The Mainstreaming Of Obesity Continues

It wasn’t that long ago that Leftists, and, yes, this very much is a Leftist push, were telling us that obesity was a bad thing, often because of ‘climate change’ and environmental reasons. They understood that it was bad for the medical sector, driving up costs, and, really, just being bad for people. But, now, […]

Guy Who’ll Probably Win In California Gov Race Wants Universal Healthcare For Illegal Aliens

Remember this one? To the editor: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and County Supervisor Hilda Solis in December announced the creation of a $10-million legal aid fund to “hire lawyers to defend local immigrants without legal status.” (“A $10-million fund will help immigrants fight deportations. But should it help those with violent criminal convictions?” April 17) My street […]

Democrats Look To Add One More Crazy Idea To Midterms: Medicare For All

What’s the Democrat agenda for November? Along with some other crazy things. And now they are mainstreaming Medicare for all, otherwise known as Single Payer Liberal Dems lay groundwork to push Medicare for All Democrats are laying the groundwork to make a push for “Medicare for All” legislation if they win back the House in […]

Bummer: Trump’s Illegal Alien Crackdown Threatens Obamacare

Let’s go back in time, shall we? Representative Joe Wilson was excoriated in 2009 for yelling “you lie!” about Obama’s statement that illegal aliens will not receive Obamacare. Politifact went through some serious gymnastics to claim that Joe’s statement was false. Of course, we’ve seen over the years that Joe was correct, and that many […]

Private Clinics Are A Threat To Canada’s Socialist Health Care System Or Something

There’s a movement going on in Canada, one which has seen a large expansion of private facilities where people can, get this, go in an pay with their own money to get treatment quickly. And the Fascists/Socialists who love the government to be in control are not happy Canada’s health system serves as model for […]

Judge Sides With Trump On Cost Sharing Payments, Refuses To Force Federal Government To Make Them

Who would have thought that a judge would not require the federal government to not make payments to insurance companies that another judge had already ruled unConstitutional (The Hill) A federal court in California has struck down an emergency motion that would have forced the Trump administration to continue making ObamaCare subsidy payments to insurers. […]

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