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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.  

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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