Category Archives: Healthcare

Asking The Rich To Pay For ObamaCare? Asking?

Apparently, NY Times writer David M. Herszenhorn just heard of this interesting proposition: taxing “the rich” to pay for health care. Among everything else they are supposed to pay for, of course. Maybe David just graduated from college, and was too busy partying to have heard of this, but, regardless, his first paragraph is a […]

HealthCare Today: Moron.org And First Customers

What do we want “grasshopper health care” —– um, not many of you here, could y’all speak up? A group of about 30 people gathered on the sidewalk in front the Birmingham offices for Alabama’s U.S. senators at noon Thursday, calling for health care reform and the creation of a new public plan to provide […]

Arizona Moves To Protect Residents From ObamaCare

It appears as if the spirit of the 9th and 10th Amendments are alive and kicking in Arizona Voters in Arizona will decide next year whether residents will be subject to mandates in the pending health care reform that President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are promoting. At least five other states – Indiana, Minnesota, […]

Queen Nancy Says No Transparency On ObamaCare Bill

The most ethical Congress EVAH! House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) will not give the public a week to review the final text of a health-care reform bill before it is voted on later this year. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) has also declined to commit to giving the public a week to read and […]

Reid Says “Nope” To Giving People Time To Read Nanny State Care Bill

Transparency! Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D- Nev.) will not commit to giving senators and the public a full week to read and review the final version of a health-care reform bill before he holds a final vote on it. Reid confessed at his Thursday news briefing that he did not have “a lot of time” to read the 1,071-page stimulus bill […]

ObamaCare Day Long Infomercial=Fail

OK, I’ll admit, I did not watch, ore really even read, anything during the day Wednesday as ABC News and The White House became one and the same. But, see there were two little problems for Obama and his “I’m not going to do away with private insurance *wink wink*” agenda: Mark Sanford, and ABC […]

Obama Calls PC As Words “Jimmy Carter” Resonate

Apparently, President Neophyte is not enjoying the look of things right now. His poll numbers are slipping, John McCain, among others, made a powerful speech on Iran, and it appears as if the election result will be left to standand Ahmadinejad will be reinstalled as the Iranian president. All while Iranians plead for the U.S. […]

ObamaCare: $1 Trillion Over 10 Years. So, Who Pays?

The Congressional Budget Office came out with their assessment of ObamaCare Tuesday, and, it is not pretty “How are we going to pay for that, Mr. President?” Sen. John McCain has asked. That one question – how the nation really pays for health reform – just got a shocking wake up call. The Congressional Budget […]

ObamaCare Today: Medical Malpractice, Taxing Benefits, Socialism

What’s happening on the road to nationalized health care? The American Medical Association has long battled Democrats who oppose protecting doctors from malpractice lawsuits. But during a private meeting at the White House last month, association officials said, they found one Democrat willing to entertain the idea: President Obama. In closed-door talks, Mr. Obama has […]

ObamaCare: Who Cares About The Poor And Elderly

When ideology trumps compassion President Barack Obama outlined another $313 billion in cuts to government health care spending over 10 years, largely impacting hospitals, as he hunts additional dollars to pay for expanded coverage for the uninsured. Some major health industry groups swiftly criticized the proposal in one of the clearest signs yet that the […]

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