Health care reform is being totally screwed up by the party that has pushed for it for years – the Democrats. Here’s two very interesting stories that go along with the cost containment issues I have been talking about this week. First up we have some Democrats, along with the White House and Pharma working […]
This is an interesting development in the browser wars: Asa Dotzler, Mozilla’s director of community development, used his personal blog to urge Firefox users away from Google and to use Microsoft’s search engine Bing, instead. Dotzler cited privacy concerns, specifically pointing to comments recently made by Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Dotzler points out that Bing’s […]
The New York Times is reporting that the Senate bill will result in much higher premiums. One example is a family of 4 earning $54,000 in 2016. They would be elligible for a $10,100 subsidy under the new system, but if they buy into the most popular federal plan then the monthly premiums would be […]
Here’s Conrad’s latest: Kent Conrad is pushing to decouple this Medicare buy-in from Medicare. Conrad wants to make it fake Medicare. He wants people in this fake Medicare to pay much higher reimbursement rates. and be placed in a separate risk pool. The people in fake Medicare might not even be able to use the […]
Something that has been really bothering me is how Democrats are saying they can force citizens to buy insurance because of the “commerce clause” of the Constitution: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; If this clause gives Congress the power to force you and me […]
Next year seniors won’t see an increase in their monthly Social Security checks. The increase, which is determined by cost of living up to June of the previous year, was determined to not be necessary by the government. A lot of people depend on these checks, and as well depend on Medicare. Currently Medicare has […]
Just now reporting it on MSNBC. So much for change we can believe in. GottaLaff has more UPDATE: Here’s the breaking news alert via the AP: WASHINGTON – Democratic senators say they have a tentative deal to drop a government-run insurance option from health care legislation. No further details were immediately available. But liberals and […]
Ben Nelson’s woman hating bill was just defeated in the Senate 54-45. Now the big question – will Nelson side with Republicans and filibuster healthcare like he has threatened? Any Democrat that does that should lose their chairmanships – PERIOD.
Matt Osborne has a must read at Huffington Post on the life cycle of the nontroversy that is “climategate”.
Forget the emails that basically prove nothing, except to give the science and common sense deniers something to go crazy over. That wasn’t enough to give the current climate change controversy the famous “gate” suffix. But now we have something new happening; something that takes us back to the origins of the “gate” suffix: Attempts […]