Category Archives: Healthcare

NY Times: That Missouri ObamaCare Referendum Tuesday Is Meaningless

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 […]

Britain Slowly Doing Away With Government Health Care

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 […]

Shocker! Companies Drop Insurance, Say “Have Fun With The Government”

This is just for MassCare. Imagine this on a national level, with the bonus kicker at the end of the first paragraph The relentlessly rising cost of health insurance is prompting some small Massachusetts companies to drop coverage for their workers and encourage them to sign up for state-subsidized care instead, a trend that, some […]

HHS To Require Your Electronic Medical Records Include BMI, Tubby

But, hey, don’t worry, none of that information included in your gub’mint required electronic records will ever possibly be stolen, leaked, hacked, messed up, or missused. But, it could be used to make you put down that cupcake, bubble butt New federal regulations issued this week stipulate that the electronic health records–that all Americans are […]

Washington Post Changes The Bar On Calls Of Racism And Discrimination

Well, Happy Friday! It seems that ye olde Washington Post is just not down with terming the tanning tax as racist. Remember this article the next time they and the other media go all wonky on a TEA Party gathering, or something similar Mention the new “tan tax” in a major news outlet and cries […]

Oh, Snap! ObamaCare High Risk Pool Already Moving Towards Fail Status

Hey, you know that high risk pool ObamaCare mandated, and just started accepting applications Thursday, July 1st? How’s that working out? The Obama administration has not ruled out turning sick people away from an insurance program created by the new healthcare law to provide coverage for the uninsured. Critics of the $5 billion high-risk pool […]

Hey, Remember When The Media And Government Tried Their Scare-a-thon With The Swine Flu?

How’d that work out? About a quarter of the swine flu vaccine produced for the U.S. public has expired — meaning that a whopping 40 million doses worth about $260 million are being written off as trash. About 30 million more doses will expire later and may go unused, according to one government estimate. If […]

ObamaCare Failing On Deadlines, Costs

It’s been awhile since we talked about President Chumps outsourced “historic” legislation. Since it has been passed, there have been stories, but, they have been low key, and tend to be somewhat buried. Like this one Three months after the $940 billion health care bill was signed into law, questions abound about whether the Obama […]

Oh, Snap! WH Looks To Pass Regulations So Employers Can’t Drop Their Health Insurance Plans

“If you like your health insurance, yada yada yada” The White House on Monday outlined broad new rules designed to prevent employers from dropping health insurance benefits for their workers or shifting huge new costs onto them. The regulations empower the administration to revoke the so-called grandfather status of businesses that shift “significant” new burdens […]

Insurance Company The First Victim Of ObamaCare

Sadly, expect more and more of this, which goes right along with what the ObamaCare supporters and legislators actually want A Virginia-based insurance company says “considerable uncertainties” created by the Democrats’ health care overhaul will force it to close its doors by the end of the year. The firm, nHealth, appears to be the first […]

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