These are the good old days, Part Three
My conservative cousin from New York finds support for my “these are the good old days” theme in Great Britian:
Your post on Obamacare was really on point. Once the federal government becomes so deeply involved in allocating health care, it will come to be a dominant focus of political discourse.
Over the years watching [...]
Annals of Government Medicine
Hospital conditions in the United Kingdom are frequently appalling, but the Basildon and Thurrock University National Health Service Hospitals are especially bad, with hundreds of preventable deaths occurring yearly. The Telegraph headlines, “Hundreds of patients died needlessly at NHS hospital due to appalling care”:
Poor nursing care, filthy wards and lack of leadership at Basildon [...]
If Joe Lieberman Is the Democrats’ "Lindsey Graham"…
…Are we required to despise him too?
Politico notes that when Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT, 85% Dem) announced he would not merely vote against ObamaCare but would filibuster it — at least the final motion to call the question — he burnt many bridges back to the Democratic Party:
“My sense is that when he announced he [...]
At Last, Just What We Need…
Let us take inventory of the last nine months (only as long as it takes to bring a baby into the world):
Our president is driving the Crazy Train to national bankruptcy.
He’s hunting high and low for a way to lose two wars.
He’s appeasing our enemies and alienating our allies.
He has as much as accepted Iran [...]
Mailed Fist in Lizard-Skin Glove: Lizardian Alternative to Individual Health-Insurance Mandate
The more I mull the arguments against the individual health-insurance mandate (hence, I-HIM), the more merit I see in them: It’s inevitable that any such mandate, no matter how light the requirement begins, will eventually become a rigid rule that everyone must buy gold-plated ObamaPlans… which themselves are unsustainable and will quickly dissolve into [...]
Wherein We Find That Britain’s Government "Option" Is a Pain in the Back
A crystal ball for America. Here is our future under ObamaCare:
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 on the NHS, doctors have warned.
The Government’s drug rationing watchdog says “therapeutic” injections of steroids, such as cortisone, which [...]
