Content
File: health care
It’s simply amazing that this stuff wasn’t caught until just after the inauguration of Biden. The Daily Mail: In a remarkable confession made during a conference call with state Democrats, obtained by The New York Post, DeRosa, secretary to Cuomo, admitted that officials ‘froze’ in August when former President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice asked […]
Comments Off on Amazing »
Read the rest
Foreseen consequences are NOT unintended. Public health officials and regulators who have battled for years against smoking may be inadvertently bolstering the tobacco market with their strong stand against e-cigarettes, some financial analysts say. While certain experts view the products as a potentially game-changing safe alternative to smoking, many health organizations have warned of their […]
Comments Off on Foreseen Consequences »
Read the rest
How dare Walmart offer more comprehensive insurance plans at a lower price than Obamacare! Richard Pollock at the Washington Examiner: New Obamacare health insurance enrollees may feel a pang of envy when they eye the coverage plans offered by Walmart to its employees. For many years, the giant discount retailer has been the target of […]
Comments Off on That Eeeeeeeeeeevul Walmart »
Read the rest
2011-04-15 ::
madlibertarianguy //
Dumbassery + Economy + health care
Successful?
TPM on Ryan’s medicare overhaul proposal: In trying to dismantle Medicare, Republicans are seeing to rollback a successful example of single payer toward freer market. I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
Comments Off on Successful? »
Read the rest
If you don’t like McDonalds, don’t go there, but STOP trying to punish me and my children for wanting to go there as a treat, you fat motherfucker.
Comments Off on Nanny of The Day »
Read the rest
Here in America, we have principles. Principles like a free media, unbiased by not receiving funding from the government. Oh, wait. No we don’t. Two mainstream news organizations are receiving hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars from Obamacare’s Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP) — a $5 billion grant program that’s doling out cash to companies, […]
Comments Off on Unbiased »
Read the rest
2011-04-01 ::
madlibertarianguy //
Government + health care
Brave New World
This shit is so fucking Huxleyan that I don’t have anything whatsoever to add to it: Genetic testing for newborns started in the 1960s with testing for diseases and conditions that, if undetected, could kill a child or cause severe problems, such as mental retardation. Since then, the screening has helped save countless newborns. Over […]
Comments Off on Brave New World »
Read the rest
Via The Weekly Standard concerning a new report from The Government Accountability Office (tell me that isn’t a fucking oxymoron) and Medicare fraud: In a newly released report, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimates that, in fiscal year 2010, $48 billion in taxpayer money was squandered on fraudulent or improper Medicare claims. Meanwhile, the nation’s […]
Comments Off on We Definitely Only Oppose Obamacare Because We Hate the Poor. »
Read the rest
One idea that I’ve espoused since the beginning of the newfound limited government movement from the right is that so-called conservatives will come to a crossroads; a point at which they must decide what is more important: small government and individual liberty, or the enforcement of their moral agenda. Fortunately, it seems that some conservatives […]
Comments Off on A Crossroads »
Read the rest
How is it that liberals can demand that the federal government stay out of health care decision-making when it concerns medical marijuana, yet fully support Obamacare which co-opts individual health care decisions?
Comments Off on Question of the Day »
Read the rest