http://freemarketcure.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:39:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jeff Goldsmith points out that virtually no one believed President Obama when he promised to enact health care "reform" without adding to the federal budget deficit: A mid-November Quinnipiac poll found that only 19% of Americans and 35% of his own political party believe health reform will not add to the deficit. ... http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=389 Answer: the government agency that must administer whatever health care boondoggle the Democrats finally settle on was about to release its cost estimates. Pelosi and her accomplices wanted to get the fraud bill passed before the public saw the real cost. And its not hard to see why they were worried. Turns out this ... http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=388 Hmm ... According to AP: About 30 unions will run a full-page ad in newspapers Wednesday announcing their opposition to the Senate Finance Committee's health overhaul bill, a top labor lobbyist said. Why? The AP article goes does a little throat clearing before getting to the point, but union members get just the kind of "Cadillac" health ... http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=387 One pledge the President consistently makes is that Americans will have "choice" when his brand of health reform is enacted. Like most of O's promises, this one is meaningless. His Orwellian definition of "choice" does not mean, for example, that seniors can spend their own money for their own health insurance without losing ... http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=386 Barack Obama ran for president espousing a far different health reform plan than he is about to give us.  My latest piece for the American Spectator argues that he deliberately perpetrated a bait and switch on the voters: On a host of reform issues, including insurance mandates, taxing health benefits and patient ... http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=385 It would appear that the president's health care "reform" project is now doing so poorly in the polls that first lady Michelle Obama has been called in to help save it: First lady Michelle Obama sought support for the administration’s health-care plans from family advocacy groups and health-care professionals, saying the treatment of ... http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=384 While the president tries to recruit an army of underage Obots by taking his increasing creepy message to America's schools, the people at the other end of the age spectrum are more and more suspicious of his intentions: Polls show seniors ... are more likely than other age groups to think Medicare, the government-funded health program for ... http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=383 Get your KennedyCare t-shirt at www.cafepress.com/KennedyCare http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=382 Ann Coulter has it right: First screw something up, then claim that it's screwed up because there's not enough government oversight (it's the free market run wild!), and then step in and really screw it up in the name of "reform." http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=381 We are now hearing noises from the Dems to the effect that they are willing to compromise on the public plan issue. The more I think about it, the less I believe it. The bait-and-switch is an Obama/Democrat specialty.  These are the people who proposed taxing health insurance benefits after trashing John ... http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=380 One of the claims often made by the President and his congressional accomplices, despite longstanding evidence to the contrary, is that health "reform" will save money by encouraging preventive care. Well, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Ofiice has done the math, and concludes that this claim is pure BS. In fact, the ... http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=379 In an apparent attempt to prove that the term "progressive" is a synonym for "fascist," the Obama administration has published this seriously creepy request on the White House web site: If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov. Yes. you ... http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=378 One of the linchpin arguments of government-run health care advocates is that the government can run an insurance program more efficiently and with much lower administrative costs than the private sector. According to them, Medicare overhead is approximately 3% while private insurers have 12% (or 20% or 31% depending on ... http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=377 In an apparent effort to confirm our worst fears about socialized medicine, Britain's rationing Czars have decided to stop paying for therapeutic pain injections: Tens of thousands with chronic back pain will be forced to live in agony after a decision to slash the number of painkilling injections issued by the NHS, doctors have warned.  And ... http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=375 Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute addresses the issue of health care "reform" in a new column. Read it all. Government intervention in medicine is wrecking American health care. Nearly half of all spending on health care in America is already government spending. Yet President Obama’s “reforms” will only expand ... http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=374 This video speaks for itself - and shows that Obama's various defenses of the public insurance option are more of the same: obfuscation and propaganda. http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=373 Paul Krugman of the New York Times is one of the most mendacious commentators on health care in the mainstream media. See my essay The Health Care Lies of Paul Krugman - and this entertaining video. Enjoy! http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=372 Hannity ran a segment on the First Lady’s patient-dumping scheme, and they interviewed me pursuant to an article I wrote about it several months ago. Here’s where the rubber hits the road on the "Urban Health Initiative": EARHARDT: According to community activist Shannon Bennett, this has led to a backlash among South Side ... http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=371 The other day, Peter Singer quoted me in his New York Times piece, Why We Must Ration Health Care: In the conservative monthly The American Spectator, David Catron ... asked whether we really deserve a health care system in which 'soulless bureaucrats arbitrarily put a dollar value on our lives.' For anyone familiar with ... http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=368 During last year's presidential race the Obama campaign accused John McCain of wanting to "tax health care instead of fixing it." And this accusation probably contributed to McCain's demise. Thus, many were outraged when our new President and his congressional accomplices proposed a very similar health benefits tax----minus McCain's $5,000 tax credit. But a funny ... http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=367 Having government-provided health insurance doesn't do a lot of good when the health care is delivered by apathetic, uncaring, unionized, government health workers. Consider this story (July 5, 2009) in the UK's Telegraph newspaper: Cancer patient Pamela Goddard battled against cancer for 50 years before she died of an infected bedsore ... http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=366 A new video produced by the National Center for Policy Analysis features Canadian medical broker Rick Baker of Timely Medical Alternatives who has appeared in several of our health care films. This piece serves as a warning from someone who sees suffering and waiting Canadians on a daily basis.To sign ... http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=365 The Independence Institute in Colorado has just produced a good video explaining how individual mandates have worked in Massachusetts with the following introduction: We all agree the health care system is in need of reform. That's not the issue. The debate is really what kind of reform is needed. There ... http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=364 It's a shame that ABC's infomercial for Obamacare bombed so badly in the ratings. It provided genuine moment of clarity. A skeptical physician asked Obama if he would be willing to submit his own family to the limitations of a public plan such as he has proposed for the rest of ... http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=363 A few weeks ago, it looked like the AMA might collaborate with the President in his effort to dismantle U.S. health care, presumably in the hope that groveling would prevent reimbursement cuts for its membership.  But the President was playing the AMA leadership for chumps. He plans to push through the "public option" and to force doctors to ... http://freemarketcure.com/blog/?p=362