How the New ObamaCare Medical Loss Ratio Regs will Kill Bronze Plans and HSAs

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  December 29th at 01:21 PM  | 

Roy Ramthun has written a great paper on HHS’s proposed-final regulation on Medical Loss Ratio, and how it will impact HSAs and other Bronze Plans in the exchanges: The final medical loss ratio (MLR) regulations will likely create a vacuum for affordable coverage that cannot be filled by Bronze plans under the state insurance exchanges. If the “essential benefits” and “actuarial value” requirements are equally | Read More »

The New Medical Loss Ratio Rule means No Bronze Plans, and No HSAs in ObamaCare Exchanges

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  December 5th at 09:35 AM  | 

The urge of government health care bureaucrats to impose their will on the market, regardless of warnings and repeated petitioning for redress for relief, overpowered petitions in the latest medical loss ratio (MLR) rule by HHS. The result of the new rule will mean one thing: no bronze plans, at all, in the ObamaCare exchanges. (Bronze plans are the low cost plan that ObamaCare envisioned | Read More »

How Cowards are causing a Strategic Economic Crash of the West

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  November 28th at 02:07 PM  | 

Cowards have no business making hard choices. They are psychologically, physiologically and spiritually deficient, and cannot (are incapable) of making the right choice. They are not built for it — because they are cowards. Furthermore, they are so afraid, they will not allow those with courage to make the right choice for them. Cowardliness is rampant in the West and epidemic in the Western financial | Read More »

Ohio ObamaCare Vote is a Perfect Illustration of Pelosi’s Radically Out-of-Touch Mental State

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  November 9th at 09:22 AM  | 

From the diaries by Erick So, this morning, were the lead stories on television that Nancy Pelosi, whose belittling and famous “Are you serious? Are you serious?” response to being asked about the challenge to the ObamaCare individual mandate, was the perfect illustration of her radical and out-of-touch mental state — and that she is as out of touch as former President Bush was when | Read More »

The Japanese Divine Wind, Known Politically as Obama

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  September 21st at 07:17 AM  | 

Certainly, most Presidents have been tempted to do what ever it is they want, and most do not, because they listen to those around them and find out they do not know as much as they thought they knew. This problem has zero impact on our current President — as Peretz writes in the New Republic — “the arrogance that is so characteristic of his | Read More »

Post Labor Day Political Analysis: The Arrogance of “the One” has Caused Him to become Undone

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  September 6th at 06:29 PM  | 

As Perry solidified his lead for the GOP nomination, the opposite has happened to “the One,” who, in short, has become obviously and glaringly undone — in a way that has been so dramatic that even the main stream media cannot ignore it, downplay it or talk around it. Basically, if there is a credible pollster, Obama has hit that pollster’s all time low, including | Read More »

Death of the West: the Euro and Dollar Fail, while the Rise of Oil puts Muslims on Top

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  June 20th at 10:27 AM  | 

It is unclear how much clearer things need to get before the elite get it: the strategic correlation of forces is steadily and regularly eroding the position of the West vis-à-vis the Muslim world. Ironically, Greece, the cradle of early democracy, may or may not, be the proximate cause of the collapse of the leading Western currency: the Euro. For those Americans who don’t get | Read More »

Former President Clinton: the Supremes could Smoke ObamaCare

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  April 30th at 08:30 AM  | 

From the diaries by Erick Note to the universe: do you really think the Supreme Court will act like there is a severability clause in ObamaCare, when one does not exist? It’s not like the Supremes spend their dawns poring over statutes, line by line, or anything at all like that. So, President Clinton thought he might mention it. And now TIME magazine is reporting | Read More »

The Dems Want a Gov’t Shut Down

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  February 22nd at 10:26 AM  | 

Politico just spent four pages outlining how the GOP House Freshmen want to cut spending and how Senate Majority Leader Reid refuses to cut spending in order to pass a continuing resolution that would fund the federal government. Meanwhile, The One is radio silent, and is not engaging either the Republicans in the House or in the Senate. The Dems are also in nostalgia-land about | Read More »

The One has Wasted our Time and Treasure

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  February 21st at 03:17 PM  | 

The One is finding that States are handing back billions and telling him to take his high speed rail (most of which funds small speed increases for existing slow Amtrak trains) and high tail it out of their state. The One is weak, everyone can see it, smell it and taste it. It invites an expansion of influence into The One’s shrinking sphere of influence. | Read More »

ELITE SUPER SHOCK: Supremes are the New ObamaCare Death Panel

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  February 7th at 12:14 PM  | 

As time slips by, and ObamaCare has it’s appointment with the Supremes — sooner or later — the decision will come to make void ObamaCare and its political wreckage for the Dems. (Of course, the political gains made by the GOP as a direct result of ObamaCare will largely be retained.) It is highly unlikely that the Supreme Court will decide the individual mandate is | Read More »

The Dem’s NIGHTMARE OBAMACARE POLITICAL SCENARIO is Now a Legal Reality

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  February 1st at 02:30 PM  | 

Oh, the joy! What the objection to the conferees in the U.S. Senate has wrought is the now legal reality of the ObamaCare law being declared null and void. No House and Senate conference for ObamaCare meant that the Dems could not insert a severability clause in the bill, which would allow one of the provisions of a law to be declared unconstitutional, but the | Read More »

Dems Strap on the Dynamite T-Shirts (again)

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  January 31st at 08:07 AM  | 

After losing the Speaker’s Office and having more than 80 freshmen Republicans encamp in the U.S. House of Representatives, while watching moderate Dems retire at a fast clip in the Senate, it has not stopped the Dems from drinking more of the Jonestown Brigade Kool-Aid served up by the White House and the Minority Leader’s office. It’s a new flavor, they call it ObamaCare. The | Read More »

The Mainstream Media’s Dr. Jekyll Antidote

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  January 11th at 09:32 AM  | 

We know from the Dem ObamaCare cliff-jumping exercise, that the Dems listen to, and do as they are told by the mainstream media. But the cracks in the ObamaCare-hold-hands-and-sing-kum-bah-ya-love-fest are now beginning to be hard for the MSM to ignore. First, Kate Pickert of TIME magazine wrote a piece that argued the Dems have fallen into a trap by passing ObamaCare, and that politically, things | Read More »

The One’s legislative failures haven’t even begun

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  December 10th at 08:44 AM  | 

In the midst of a global economic meltdown, Obama decides to push for the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” to allow gays to openly be gay and serve in the military. This policy change was one of Obama’s top priorities — the other being the passage of the START treaty. Don’t ask don’t tell went down in flames yesterday in the U.S. Senate. And | Read More »

Sen. Schumer Admits Tea Partiers Demand ObamaCare Repeal

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  December 4th at 06:57 AM  | 

Schumer, who handily won re-election this year, acknowledged the anger vented by tea partyers and others during the election but insisted that didn’t extend to upper-income tax cuts. Roll Call: Voters “did say ‘repeal health care,’ they did say ‘reduce the size of government.’ But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said ‘give tax breaks to the wealthiest,’” Schumer | Read More »

Deficit Commission Votes to Not Send their Plan to Congress

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  December 4th at 06:53 AM  | 

The deficit commission has imploded. Under the Commission’s super-majority voting rules, the commission made recommendations that they themselves cannot agree to send to Congress and force an up or down vote. It is the Washington Establishment disease: we all agree we must do something about the deficit, but we are going to do absolutely nothing but talk about doing something about it. Looking at the | Read More »

Obama the Dangerous: Why His Inability to Compromise could lead to War

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  November 29th at 07:02 AM  | 

One of the most alarming things about Obama’s arrogance and vanity is that he believes he is right — all the time. This is what is the most disturbing about Eleanor Clift’s comment about “too much hero worship” around The One — since she is writing about it, you know things are really bad — as in it’s not just the bowing and scraping around | Read More »

Obama, Pelosi and E.J. Dionne need to understand the following

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  November 23rd at 06:51 AM  | 

The media, in the form of E.J. Dionne (who now wants everyone to ignore the two trillion the are Dems will spend from the Treasury on ObamaCare) who is now writing about how Republicans must balance the budget, or the others in the left-wing media who somehow think the public gives a “rat’s patootie” about the START agreement or that they can somehow intimidate the | Read More »

The U.S. House Politiburo

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  November 15th at 07:07 AM  | 

Watching the 70-year-old-somethings who make up the members of the Democratic Leadership of the U.S. House is like watching the beginning of the end of the Soviet Politiburo — everyone of the old guard gets their turn, until change comes by them dying off. And, just like the Politiboro — they will never, ever leave voluntarily. Rep. Clyburn is just taking his cue not to | Read More »