Don’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
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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
Sebelius vs. Accuracy
March 12 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCareIf you can’t explain it to a 6th grader, perhaps you’re hiding something? ============= There have been dozens of ObamaCare delays or major revisions via administrative fiat, including four so far this year, but there’s one in particular that the Health and Human Services Department prefers to keep hidden: the individual mandate waivers that we exposed Wednesday. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius also happened... Read more
ObamaCare and My Mother’s Cancer Medicine
February 24 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCareOne more data point… In case anyone is tracking data points. =========== By Stephen Blackwood Feb. 23, 2014 7:10 p.m. ET When my mother was diagnosed with carcinoid cancer in 2005, when she was 49, it came as a lightning shock. Her mother, at 76, had yet to go gray, and her mother’s mother, at 95, was still playing bingo in her nursing home.... Read more
