It appears that someone has had an outbreak of honesty brought on by the prospect of not having to get re-elected.
Tag Archives: Affordable Care Act
Obamacare Train Wreck? Washington Post: Obama Administration “has gone hat in hand to health industry executives.”
Obamacare looks increasingly like a disaster. It could be Obama’s Iraq War. (Sadly it’s even more expensive.) Senator Baucus, a Democrat, recently said he saw an Obamacare “train wreck coming down.”
Then he announced his retirement.
Unintended Consequences, The Affordable Care Act Already Hurting the Employment Situation
Companies are curtailing hours in an effort to obey the Obamacare mandate. If a company has 50 or more employees they must provide health insurance to any worker working 30 hours or more. The alternative for the company is a stiff fine. Managers at Burger Kings and Taco Bells across the nation are sharpening their pencils and changing shifts.
Are the Medical Journals Entirely in the Hands of Big Pharma?
Can we trust what comes out of the medical journals if 97% of the advertising within these journals is bought by pharmaceutical companies? Considering that these journals determine much of the direction of healthcare research and policy, it’s a question which needs to be asked seriously. Remember Big Pharma wrote a big piece of Obamacare.
Classic Crony Capitalism Around New Healthcare Exchanges
In the attached article, Jeffery H. Andersen at The Weekly Standard explains that as HHS falls farther behind in creating insurance exchanges, cronyism seems to have seeped into the implementation process. This, given the complexity and cost of the “Affordable Care Act” is a huge surprise I am sure to our readers.
Obamacare: America is About to Voyage into Mind Bending Complexity
The Affordable Care Act is so complex, and according to Greg Scandlin at The National Center for Policy Analysis, so poorly written, that large pieces of Obamacare just won’t happen because they literally make no sense. (Or demand unicorns.)
