Restoring The Republic III – Curing The Sickness Known As Healthcare

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  May 8th at 11:00 AM  | 

Don’t get me wrong. I like O-Care about as much as I like getting a prostate exam. The bill is typical of unthinking, boilerplate socialism’s response to the negative externalities that result from market failure. We should therefore trash Obamacare, but let’s just make that the warm-up set. The real heavy lifting required to fix our healthcare system involves addressing the causes of a market failure so catastrophic that something as obviously stupid as Obamacare seemed like a palatable solution.

Karl Denninger explains why poor people often can’t afford health insurance. The care provided is so badly overpriced that health plans are paying out more vastly more than the goods and services provided can possibly be worth. He describes the price mark-up of a common chemotherapy drug below.

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Gun Control: Treating The Symptoms

By: Breeanne Howe (Diary)  |  April 24th at 11:00 AM  | 

As the nation struggles to understand the attack at the Boston Marathon, the debate over background checks for gun buyers has received more attention from gun control advocates as a result.  The left argues that stricter gun control laws might prevent tragedies such as the Boston bombings and the Newtown shooting.  The right points out that criminals, including the Boston bombers, do not adhere to | Read More »

Haley on Healthcare: Part Three

By: Breeanne Howe (Diary)  |  February 15th at 10:15 AM  | 

In the final part of my three part interview with Governor Nikki Haley, we discussed how the subject of gun control found it’s way into the health care debate and the question of South Carolina’s role going forward in the fight against Obamacare. In the recent executive actions Obama signed, one was to “clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their | Read More »

Healthcare Paid for With Unicorn Farts

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  February 13th at 12:31 AM  | 

There will be many words from many people about much of the President’s State of the Union speech from last night. I will only focus on one line, which distinctly highlights again just how out to lunch the man is when it comes to real healthcare reforms in this country. During his speech the President said this: We’ll bring down costs by changing the way | Read More »

Haley on HealthCare: Part One

By: Breeanne Howe (Diary)  |  February 11th at 10:30 AM  | 

Now that Barack Obama has been sworn in for a second term, the focus will again turn to ObamaCare and health care exchanges. A key component of ObamaCare, health care exchanges are to be set up by the states giving consumers a limited amount of options to purchase health care in their state. Those that traditionally cannot afford to purchase health care will be given | Read More »

Will GOP Governors Save us From Obamacare?

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  November 16th at 06:47 AM  | 

We all understand that elections have consequences and that there are certain issues which are ceded with an electoral loss.  Obamacare is not one of them. If Obamacare is allowed to survive, then our Constitution has no meaning and our Republic is finished.  It will engender a takeover of 1/6 of our economy, create permanent dependency, induce unsustainable inflationary pressure on the cost of healthcare | Read More »

The Moment All the Doubts About Romney Resurfaced on the Right

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 8th at 01:02 PM  | 

Priorities USA was damaging itself and Barack Obama over its mind numbingly insane ad painting Mitt Romney as a killer. Then the Romney campaign decided to sabotage itself with a mind numbingly bit of spin that may mark the day the Romney campaign died. Defending Romney and combatting the ad, Romney spokesman Andrea Saul . . . let’s go to the quotes “To that point, | Read More »

We Must End Gov’t Bias Towards Employer-Provided Health Coverage

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  May 18th at 01:43 PM  | 

The liberal cycle of statism, at its core, originates from a government-induced problem.  When nobody is paying attention to an issue, liberals swoop in and impose a pernicious regulation or mandate on a private industry.  That regulation lays dormant for a number of years like a ticking time bomb.  Then, many years later, it blows up the industry.  Liberals summarily swoop in to accuse private | Read More »

Yes, Many Republicans Supported Obamacare All Along

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  May 16th at 10:38 PM  | 

Many of us have taken it for granted that all Republicans would work for full repeal of Obamacare.  After all, not a single Republican voted for it.  However, it is always important to understand the reasons why politicians support or oppose a piece of legislation. When you listen to many prominent Republicans voicing their disdain for Obamacare, you generally hear the following complaints: it raises | Read More »

Secretary Sebelius, Meet The Anti-Deficiency Act.

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  February 7th at 02:30 PM  | 

It is “unacceptable that HHS fails to maintain accurate financial records and fails to adhere to federal law designed to protect taxpayer dollars from mismanagement and waste,” Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Rep. Charles Boustany, R-La., wrote in a Monday letter to the department’s secretary, Kathleen Sebelius. (HT:Federal Times) The USG may not appear to have a very tight wrap on how and where it’s | Read More »

Romney’s Big Healthcare Lie

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  January 26th at 10:00 PM  | 

Almost a full year into the presidential campaign, Romney finally received a full-fledged beatdown for his mendacity over healthcare.  He has the nerve to feign outrage over Obamacare, even while he touts Romneycare – a carbon copy of Obamacare – as a virtuous success, supported by 90% of Massachusetts residents.  Santorum did his homework, and called him out on the hypocrisy.  Romney was never able | Read More »

Chris Christie is Intellectually Dishonest

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  October 11th at 06:01 PM  | 

Earlier today, Chris Christie endorsed Mitt Romney for president, describing him as “a real hero in Republican circles.”  During his announcement, he disparaged conservatives who oppose Romneycare, by suggesting that any attempt to compare it to Obamacare is “completely intellectually dishonest.”  Governor Christie might want to look in the mirror or step down as a prominent spokesman for the Republican Party. Any attempt to suggest | Read More »

Rick Perry’s Immigration Problem vs. Mitt Romney’s Healthcare Problem

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  September 27th at 10:36 AM  | 

I don’t speak for all conservatives, but most every single conservative I know will gladly settle for Mitt Romney and support him over Barack Obama. Even the conservatives I know who right now are saying they could never support Mitt Romney will . . . when push comes to shove . . . support Mitt Romney. The issue is that most conservatives, myself included, don’t | Read More »

9 Reasons to Oppose Boehner 4.0 Debt Deal

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  August 1st at 12:01 PM  | 

1) Obama gets his full lifeline, long-term debt limit increase that will take him beyond the election ($2.1-2.4 trillion), without making any transformational concession.  There is no realistic roadmap to entitlement reform; not a single agency or program, domestic or mandatory, will be eliminated; Obamacare is off limits; there will be no balanced budgets, ever.  We will still add trillions more to the debt over | Read More »

Michele Bachmann: Don’t Forget Obamacare

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  June 30th at 03:20 PM  | 

The most effective proposal for dealing with the debt ceiling vote that has the backing of conservatives is the Cut, Cap, and Balance plan brought forth by the RSC.  Accordingly, virtually every major conservative organization has coalesced around a pledge forcing all members of Congress to support the plan as a condition to raising the debt ceiling.  The presidential candidates are also being recruited to | Read More »