Category Archives: healthcare
Nancy Pelosi Is A Lunatic
In an NPR interview Nancy Pelosi demonstrated once again that she is either a pathological liar or a lunatic. I’m going with lunatic because I think she actually believes the crap that comes out of her mouth. Here is the … Continue reading
Bending The Healthcare Cost Curve – Upwards
Remember how Democrats promised us that once we passed Obamacare that healthcare costs would start coming down? I knew that wouldn’t be the case and now even NPR has to admit that Obamacare’s promises are not being fulfilled. “Gunnar Ebbesson … Continue reading
Millennials Struggle With Obamacare
It appears that those pajama boys and Obamanation supporters, otherwise known as Millennials, are struggling to take advantage of the free goodies offered by Obamacare. From NPR: Young adults, who generally have little experience managing their own health care expenses, … Continue reading
The Left’s Game Plan – Blame The Republicans
If SCOTUS rules that Obamacare subsidies are illegal in states that didn’t set up their own exchange then folks in over 30 states will find that their subsidies will vanish and their Insurance plans they obtained with these subsidies will … Continue reading
Obamacare Fails To Limit ER Visits
When the Left was trying to sell us on Obamacare they said this (emphasis mine): “As far back as 2010, President Obama cited decreasing emergency room visits as one of the main cost-saving goals of the health-care reform. “What happens … Continue reading
Random Acts Of Journalism At NPR
For the past few days NPR has run 3 separate stories on Obamacare and all of them have clearly shown the wake of destruction that this massive takeover of healthcare has left. The first story was about a Cleveland, Ohio … Continue reading
What To Do When Obamacare Unravels
Over Christmas there was a great Opinion piece in the Wall-Street Journal that fleshes out what I’ve been dancing around for a couple of years now. The real way we will make our US healthcare system better is by moving … Continue reading
Bob Schieffer Had A Sad
Apparently Bob is really upset that the State Run Media had to stop flogging Republicans over the Government Shutdown in order to cover this Obamacare failure.
A Leftist Dream Shattered
To many of us who live in the real world and understand math this next statement shouldn’t come as a shock to you – Increasing Medicare and Medicaid spending does not reduce Nationwide health care costs. But alas, there are … Continue reading
What Happens If Obamacare Threw A Party And Nobody Showed Up?
There is a very real possibility that there will only be a fraction of the required people sign up for healthcare through the Obamacare exchanges by the March 31st deadline. What does that mean? Well basically the whole system will … Continue reading
NPR’s Poor Memory
NPR’s Julie Rovner (@JRovner) had a report today about the latest Obamacare website failures but then she touched on the next politically inconvenient truth that Team Obama will have to wrestle with. From NPR: “But we’re also hearing about people … Continue reading
Lessons In Project Management From The Obamacare Website
If you are looking for a case study on how to guarantee a project failure then you only need to look to the Obamacare website failures and the testimonies of the four contractors on Capitol Hill today. I have a … Continue reading
Fail Fast
During my time spent in Product Development we had a goal with every new project – Fail Fast! That might sound counter-intuitive to those outside of R&D or Product Development but think about it. During the development phase, there should … Continue reading
Let-It-Burn Won’t Work With Obamacare
I’m definitely in the Let-It-Burn camp with most current political/fiscal issues and feel that we’ve reached the point where Low Information Voters and Leftists have to learn the lesson the hard way that their policies only lead to ruin but … Continue reading
FDA to the Rescue
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently decided to investigate the efficacy and harmful effects of a product that has been on the market for 40 years. “Antibacterial soap has been around for 40 years. But research now shows … Continue reading
Why Do We Want To Be Like Europe?
Over the weekend I heard a friend of mine defending Obamacare using this typical response: “The United States is the only advanced Western country that doesn’t have a national health care system.” Without specifically defining what countries are considered “advanced … Continue reading
A Radical Budget Compromise Plan
Is there any hope of bringing Republicans and Democrats together to tackle the tough fiscal problems that the US faces? Believe it or not, I think there is! The Heritage Blog produced a great info graphic comparing the recent budget … Continue reading
Promises of Obamacare Fall Short
Once Obamacare kicks in fully in 2014, we’ll be seeing stories like this every week: “Tens of thousands of Americans who cannot get health insurance because of preexisting medical problems will be blocked from a program designed to help them … Continue reading
Obamacare Is Already Hurting Americans
Remember in 2009 when Obama was pimping his Healthcare overhaul and he said this? “If you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan.” People who worked in the real world knew this statement was extremely misleading and … Continue reading
Thanksgiving Thoughts On The US Healthcare Industry
Now that Obamacare will have 4 years to sink its tentacles into our healthcare system, the 1st class medical care we enjoy in the US is a thing of the past. It is apparent to anyone who read the bill … Continue reading