I thought we held to the principle of “Lex Rex”? Apparently, not all ‘elected officials’ do, or care. =========== Last week’s burst of world disorder was ideal for a news dump, and the White House didn’t disappoint: On no legal basis, all 4.5 million residents of the five U.S. territories were quietly released from ObamaCare. Where does everybody else apply? The original House... Read more
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Territories Free of ObamaCare
July 21 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, ObamaCare, The Left, US Constitution
ER Visits Rise Despite Health Law
May 21 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCareMight be too early to draw hard conclusions, but interesting…. ======= Early evidence suggests that emergency rooms have become busier since the Affordable Care Act expanded insurance coverage this year, despite the law’s goal of reducing unnecessary care in ERs. Almost half of ER doctors say they are seeing more patients since key provisions of the health law took effect Jan. 1, while... Read more
Cooking the ObamaCare Stats
April 18 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCareDon’t you love statistics?! ===== You can’t manage what you don’t measure, as the great Peter Drucker used to say, and for the White House that seems to be the goal. Out of the blue, the Census Bureau has changed how it counts health insurance—at the precise moment when ObamaCare is roiling the insurance markets. Since 1987, the Current Population Survey, or CPS,... Read more
A Catastrophe Like No Other
April 4 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Noonan, ObamaCareWell? ========== Put aside the numbers for a moment, and the daily argument. “Seven point one million people have signed up!” “But six million people lost their coverage and were forced onto the exchanges! That’s no triumph, it’s a manipulation. And how many of the 7.1 million have paid?” “We can’t say, but 7.1 million is a big number and redeems the program.” “Is it a... Read more
Is ObamaCare a Law?
April 2 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCare, US ConstitutionLiberals keep dismissing challenges to ObamaCare, political and legal, so it’s no surprise they mostly ignored last week’s oral argument at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that could send another case to the Supreme Court. Coming in the week the White House wheeled out its 38th rewrite of the law, Halbig v. Sebelius is even more important for the... Read more
ObamaCare’s Secret Mandate Exemption
March 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ObamaCareIf the ACA was such a wonderful, helpful, useful and loveable piece of legislation, why all this horse pucky? ================ ObamaCare’s implementers continue to roam the battlefield and shoot their own wounded, and the latest casualty is the core of the Affordable Care Act—the individual mandate. To wit, last week the Administration quietly excused millions of people from the requirement to purchase... Read more
