Yet Another Shoddy Democratic Hack Job from Paul Krugman on ObamaCare
I know, I know. Film at 11! But let us sorrowfully pull on our waders and look at Krugman’s latest.
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Planned Obsolescence Disguised as Innovation, Oligopoly Disguised as a Free Market, and the Enrichment of Oligarchs
We are delighted to feature this post from Roy Poses, who with his colleagues at Health Care Renewal, have been providing consistently high quality analysis of the often dubious practices and economics of the health care system.
Read more...You Won’t Believe What These 10 Democrats Said About ObamaCare!
Maybe you did. But you shouldn’t have!
Read more...ObamaCare Discriminates Against Poor People with Cancer (and Obama’s Lying Again)
ObamaCare’s narrow networks apply specifically to cancer treatment, and poor people with cancer will be less likely to be able to select policies that could save their lives.
Read more...Neo-liberalism Expressed as Simple Rules
And we go to Happyville, instead of to Pain City. For some definition of “we.”
Read more...The TPP Tries to Put a “No Exit” Sign on America’s Crapified Health Care System by Allowing Medical Procedures to be Patented World-wide
Under TPP, patent trolls will do for medical care, world-wide, what they’ve done for the software industry: Increase costs and cream off profits.
Read more...Obama Peddles Big Lie to Youth Demographic of “Between Two Ferns” — That ObamaCare Coverage Costs Less Than a Cellphone Bill
The Insurance-Salesman-In-Chief peddles his product to young people under false pretences. So the political class goes meta.
Read more...Trans-Pacific Partnership Reveals Deadly Cost of American Patents
How debates over the TPP overseas show how extortionate the US pharmaceuticals regime really is.
Read more...How Solid are the ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers? (With an Addendum)
All that money… All that talent… And we can’t answer simple, basic questions about enrollment.
Read more...Are ObamaCare’s “Retroactive Advance Payments” for Buying Private Policies in States with Failed Exchanges Even Legal?
The Obama administration’s decision came as a surprise because the Affordable Care Act is clear: Federal subsidies are available only to people who enroll in a “qualified health plan” through an exchange.
Read more...Hillary Clinton, Pre-2016, Gingerly Addresses ObamaCare Debacle, Supports “Evidence-Based” Changes
OK, let’s talk about “evidence-based” just for one second.
Read more...NC Reader Smacks Down Consumer Reports on Medicaid Clawback Advice
It’s fun to see someone who got themselves in a hole keep digging deeper.
Read more...Consumer Reports Shills for ObamaCare, Pooh-Poohs Medicaid Clawbacks on Bizarre Assumption They’ll be Waived
How come the poor 55+ people ObamaCare forces into Medicaid can’t leave the house and the estate to the kids, like the middle class and the rich can? ObamaCare apologists say “Trust us! Don’t worry about a thing!” but wouldn’t they have more credibility if they were agitating for the clawbacks to be dropped, instead of minimizing the problem?
Read more...20% of Obamacare Enrollees Failed to Make First Payment
Robert Pear of the New York Times has an important story today on the actual, as opposed to heavily-spun, state of play with Obamacare take-up.
Read more...Money and Elections in Washington: Pro Wrestling, but With More Respectable Clothes
kayfabe: Term in pro wrestling. Kayfabe was the unsaid rule that the wrestlers should stay in character during the show and in public appearances in order to maintain a feeling of reality (albeit suspended) among the fans.
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