Remember when President Obama said if you liked your current health care plan you could keep it, and that it wouldn’t cost you any more? Well, he was either lying his ass off or doesn’t understand basic economics… A new report released by the non-partisan Congressional Budget office on Thursday offers four possible scenarios on […]
Health Insurance
Gallup: 61% of Americans See Health Insurance as Personal Responsibility
The results of this new Gallup poll aren’t really surprising, this is still a center right country that believes in traditional principles like limited government and individual responsibility… that more more than anything is what dogs Democrats in the health care debate: In a recent Gallup survey, 89% of Republicans, 64% of independents, and 61% […]
This and That: Palin Defines the Health Care Debate, Paglia Slams Obama’s Healthcare Horror and The Truth About Health Insurance
I’m not sure why but I’ve had the Dire Straits song The Bug stuck in my head all day… Well it’s a strange old game – you learn it slow one step forward and it’s back to go you’re standing on the throttle you’re standing on the breaks in the groove ’til you make a […]
GOP Introduces Alternative to Obamacare
Republicans in the House and Senate today announced an alternative to Pres. Barack Obama’s universal health care proposal. The Patients’ Choice Act, will be introduced in the Senate by Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Richard Burr (R-NC), and in the House by Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Devin Nunes (R-CA) aims for universal coverage but without the […]
Obama Administration Backtracks On Veterans’ Insurance
Well, well it looks like the Obama Administration is backing away from plans to to charge veterans’ private health insurance for the treatment of service related injuries: President Barack Obama reversed course Wednesday on a highly charged proposal to have private insurance companies, instead of the Veterans Affairs Department, pay for veterans’ service-related injuries. The […]
Christina Romer: Insurance Taxes Not Off The Table
One of President Barack Obama’s top economic advisers, Christina Romer, said during an appearance on “Meeting the Press” yesterday that the White House was opposed to taxing health insurance, but that she wouldn’t rule it out. When you couple Ms. Romer’s remarks on “Meet the Press” with this Sunday New York Times story you have […]