A high school student I knew and taught when she was younger recently emailed me to ask my view of the election result. She noted that her class had been paying close attention to the vote and that everyone was shocked and depressed by the result. She wondered...
The New York Times editorial board, in a piece titled “Affordable Care Act Premium Increases Are a Fixable Problem”, understatedly says that the law is “far from perfect”, but can be fixed. Among the problems with Obamacare is that...
IntroductionThe Commerce Clause? Nope…The Necessary and Proper Clause? Nope…The Power to Lay Taxes? Aha!A Direct or Indirect Tax?Obamacare Is a Tyrannical Usurpation of Power Introduction The New York Times reports: The architects of the Affordable Care...
Remember how the so-called Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) was sold to the public on the grounds that it would reduce everyone’s premiums and increase competition (among other lies)? It’s not accidental that the exact opposite has happened....
The New York Times earlier this month had an article about the reduced competition and rising cost of health insurance premiums. In the article, there’s the following quote: “Supporters of the public option warned that private insurance companies could...
The criteria Paul Krugman uses when he declares Obamacare a great “success” are obtuse and perverse. So the government forces people to to sign up for a health care plan under Obamacare by threatening a penalty if they don’t. –> Many people...
Paul Krugman rejects that Obamacare violates individuals’ liberty and asserts instead that it is “a liberating force for many Americans.” His argument is that the pre-ACA system drastically restricted many people’s freedom, because...
Obamacare is predictably resulting in longer hospital wait times due to the increased demand while the supply of doctors remains the same. The Louisville Courier-Journal reports: It wasn’t supposed to work this way, but since the Affordable Care Act took effect...
I’ve frequently pointed out here on my blog that the so-called Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) does nothing to address the underlying causes of soaring health care costs but, on the contrary, will only exacerbate the problems. John C. Goodman this week...
Obamacare has brought out “a startling ugliness of spirit” in America. So wrote Paul Krugman earlier this month, referring to the choice of some states not to expand Medicaid. This decision, he asserted, “appears to be motivated by pure spite.”...
I recently received a letter from Blue Cross Blue Shield telling me: If you don’t buy our product, you will be penalized! Well, the way they actually worded it was: The Affordable Care Act is changing America’s health insurance system, and...
Paul Krugman once again claims that the slowing rate of increase in the costs of health care can be attributed at least in part to Obamacare. Once again, what he doesn’t disclose to his readers is the fact that this slowing in the rate of increase in health...
Paul Krugman says that “There are lots of good reasons for the young to sign up” for an Obamacare health insurance plan. Yet he names only one: “it’s the law.” Actually, it’s not, since being unconstitutional, it is illegal, null and...
Paul Krugman’s intellectual dishonesty is yet again on display in his column “Obamacare’s Secret Success”, in which he claims that the so-called Affordable Care Act (ACA) is responsible for the slowdown in the costs of health care. He writes:...
“So, very early reports are that Obamacare exchanges are, as expected, having some technical glitches on the first day — maybe even a bit worse than expected, because it appears that volume has been much bigger than predicted. Here’s what you need to know:...
Under the headline “Right-wing extremists face new moral conundrum”, Brian Beutler writes that Obamacare has all of the ingredients any marketplace needs to be successful: 1) An appealing product. 2) A large population of motivated shoppers. 3)...
Barack Obama tweeted: Retweet if you believe health care isn't a privilege for a fortunate few, but a right for all. #Obamacare pic.twitter.com/NYzWBIFIOl — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 19, 2013 Health care is not a right. Shock! Horror! I know. But...
So you’ve probably heard how in a vain attempt to try to keep his already broken promise to Americans that if they liked their health insurance, they could keep it, Obama announced a proposal that people who were sent letters informing them that they would be...
Here are five of the top lies that have been told about the so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a., Obamacare. 1) The individual mandate is constitutional. The usual argument one hears for why this is true is “because the Supreme Court says...