September 21, 2010 – 1:42 pm
Yeah, yeah, everyone has covered this, but, from the Department of Who Woulda Thunk It Some of the country’s most prominent health insurance companies have decided to stop offering new child-only plans, rather than comply with rules in the new health-care law that will require such plans to start accepting children with preexisting medical conditions […]
September 9, 2010 – 9:15 am
Which, of course, the New York Times tries to spin away A new government study says President Obama’s health care law will have negligible effects on total national health spending in the next 10 years, neither slowing nor fueling the explosive growth of medical costs. Yet, time and time again, we were all told that […]
September 8, 2010 – 7:47 am
Did Democrats really think there would be no rate hikes due to their monstrous legislation, which most probably didn’t read? Health insurers say they plan to raise premiums for some Americans as a direct result of the health overhaul in coming weeks, complicating Democrats’ efforts to trumpet their signature achievement before the midterm elections. Aetna […]
September 7, 2010 – 9:24 am
I suppose they took Nancy Pelosi’s advice and read it after they passed it, therefore A handful of House Democrats are making health care reform an election year issue — by running against it. At least five of the 34 House Democrats who voted against their party’s health care reform bill are highlighting their “no†[…]
August 20, 2010 – 9:30 am
It has really gotten to a point where allies in the media cannot even avoid the idiocy of the Democrats, as witnessed by this Ben Smith article Key White House allies are dramatically shifting their attempts to defend health care legislation, abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and deficit and instead stressing a promise […]
August 13, 2010 – 7:53 am
On top of San Francisco considering banning pet sales, you just knew something like this had to happen A serious move is afoot to force fast-food giants to make kids meals more nutritionally viable if they want to sell them with kid-luring toys. In San Francisco, newly proposed legislation would ban toys from most kids […]
August 4, 2010 – 7:41 am
How popular is the health insurance mandate in Missouri? This popular Voters in Missouri overwhelmingly opposed requiring people to buy health insurance, in a largely symbolic slap at the Obama administration’s health overhaul. The referendum was the first chance for voters to express a view on the overhaul, although turnout in the state was low […]
August 2, 2010 – 4:17 pm
If I did drugs, I’d want some of what Stephanie Cutter is on Since the enactment of health reform legislation in March, several state Attorneys General have filed lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.  Having failed in the legislative arena, opponents of reform are now turning to the courts in an attempt […]
August 1, 2010 – 8:59 am
The Fish Wrap Of Record chimes in about an important issue, and decides it just ain’t all that, because all you right wing wackos will be the majority of the voters who show up. No, really For all its symbolic import, the first plebiscite on the Obama health care law, to be held Tuesday in […]
July 25, 2010 – 9:04 am
As America slowly moves towards full government run health care, Britain, a country 1/40th the size of the USA in geography (#79 on the size chart, with the USA at #3) is moving away from single payer and government control, and has actual plans to do this Perhaps the only consistent thing about Britain’s socialized […]
