Category archive: Health Care
Dissecting progressive arrogance, Part III: Howard Dean
By Chuck Roger • July 11th, 2011 12:00 am
The Clear Thinking blog is on hiatus and will return with new posts on July 18, 2011. Meanwhile, please enjoy this re-post of the “Dissecting progressive arrogance” series. More “Dissecting Progressive Arrogance” I, II, IV, V, VI, VII By Chuck Rogér Asked why Democrat candidates aren’t talking about Obamacare during the current election cycle, Howard Dean [...]
AARP’s ObamaCare Endgame Revealed
By Chuck Roger • May 25th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally in American Thinker, May 24, 2011 By Chuck Rogér We now have a clear picture of the treachery in which AARP has engaged since President Obama took office. The Daily Caller reports that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has granted Medigap policy sellers, including the American Association of Retired Persons, exemption [...]
Gingrich’s Disturbing Affection for Government Intervention in the Private Sector
By Chuck Roger • May 2nd, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér In 1994, Newt Gingrich complained vigorously about a Democrat-controlled Congress’s fiscal irresponsibility. Representative Gingrich led a successful campaign by Republicans to take over the House and Senate in the 1994 Election. At the heart of the Republican game plan was the Contract with America, a key element of which was the Fiscal [...]
How AARP Willfully Betrayed its Members
By Chuck Roger • April 26th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér In November 2010, I wrote about the shady conduct of the leadership of the American Association of Retired Persons. Here’s what I said back then. The organization is trying to paint for its members a portrait of an out-of-control pharmaceutical industry rife with obscene profits. In reality, seniors are paying less each [...]
Obi-Wan Berwick Rears His Head Again
By Chuck Roger • April 20th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally in American Thinker, April 19, 2011 By Chuck Rogér “These are not the droids you’re looking for” With those words and a barely perceptible rippling of the fingers, in Star Wars: A New Hope, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi convinces two Empire Stormtroopers to overlook the obvious. R2-D2 and C-3PO, the androids in question, sit [...]
New HHS Plan for Health Redistribution
By Chuck Roger • April 13th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally in American Thinker, April 12, 2011 By Chuck Rogér Can government make all people equally healthy? The U.S. Health and Human Services Department has announced a new plan aimed at doing precisely that. The HHS “action plan” will allegedly “reduce health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities.” A “health disparity” is defined as “a [...]
‘Alternative’ Health Care in the Land of Enchantment
By Chuck Roger • April 1st, 2011 12:00 am
Originally in American Thinker, March 31, 2011 By Chuck Rogér Want to have your “aura” read? You could have done just that had you attended last Saturday’s Health and Fitness Extravaganza and Open House in Santa Fe, New Mexico. What is an “aura?” Alternative medicine enthusiasts believe that each person emits a sort of halo [...]
Obama’s head of Medicare and Medicaid again flaunts his ruling-class arrogance
By Chuck Roger • March 31st, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér President Obama’s head of Medicare and Medicaid, the contemptible Dr. Donald Berwick, crawled out of his Beltway cave a few weeks ago to testify at a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee. My hearing coverage notes got buried in a stack of stuff during the recent Clear Thinking website redesign. So [...]
Republicans squander first shot at exposing Donald Berwick, Obama’s arrogant head of Medicare and Medicaid
By Chuck Roger • November 23rd, 2010 1:41 am
Will the new Republican House majority scrutinize the past history of Obama appointees who were slipped through during congressional recesses? If Republicans’ pitiful performance during last week’s appearance of Donald Berwick before Senate Finance Committee is any indication, then there is little chance that the Messiah’s “fundamental transformation” of America will be stopped. Leftwing zealot [...]
AARP’s drug price lies
By Chuck Roger • November 11th, 2010 2:07 am
Still a member of AARP? Why? The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) reports that an AARP analysis of prescription drugs found 8.3% higher prices in 2009. AARP surveyed 217 drugs, 211 of which increased in price over a year. AARP is intentionally misleading its employees and members by excluding generic drugs from the analysis. Calling the [...]
Dissecting progressive arrogance, Part III: Howard Dean
By Chuck Roger • October 22nd, 2010 2:20 am
More “Dissecting Progressive Arrogance” I, II, IV, V, VI, VII Asked why Democrat candidates aren’t talking about Obamacare during the current election cycle, Howard Dean said, “I don’t think we should be making the case right now. Elections are not the time to educate people. You win the election, then you educate people afterwards.” Any informed, [...]
Obamacare can’t outlaw economic reality: price controls kill drug development
By Chuck Roger • July 26th, 2010 7:44 pm
What happens when customers stop paying for a product? Production of the product ceases–unless the producer is a moron or economically suicidal. Those of us who were around remember the fictitious 1970s “energy crisis” and long gas station lines when a progressive Republican President Nixon put wage/price controls in place and an absurdly progressive Democrat [...]
Beware ‘leaders with plans’
By Chuck Roger • June 1st, 2010 9:03 pm
How should the American people feel about a Harvard professor telling the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) to ignore the free market when setting health care “policy?” Ho-hum, right? Okay, but now what if the particular professor in question were an Obama appointee who could end up setting American health care policy, and the professor [...]
Liberals’ economic cluelessness sinks to new depths in Obamacare’s prosperity kill-off
By Chuck Roger • May 25th, 2010 9:04 pm
If someone had set out to devise a scheme to kill small businesses, then the Dems’ massive health care takeover would be the perfect creation. Please take care to read the next three sentences very slowly, otherwise you may miss the juicy illogic. Ready? Here goes. The new health care law provides for small businesses [...]
Federal Obese Police want to collect data, that’s all… yeah, that’s it, just collect data
By Chuck Roger • May 21st, 2010 9:06 pm
If passed by Congress, a new bill would require private health care providers to measure the “body mass index” (BMI) of 2-18 year-old patients and report the data to state governments who must report the data to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for analysis. Such a law would be problematic. The probability [...]
The Harvard elitist who will ration your health care
By Chuck Roger • May 20th, 2010 9:07 pm
President Obama has nominated Harvard professor Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In 2008, Berwick said, “Cynics beware, I am romantic about the National Health Service; I love it. All I need to do to rediscover the romance is to look at health care in my own country.” Imagine being [...]
Obamacare’s destruction of wealth begins
By Chuck Roger • March 29th, 2010 9:53 pm
The Wall Street Journal points out that AT&T has announced a $1 billion writedown due to the legal requirements of the Democrat monstrosity of “health care reform.” The WSJ calls the AT&T action part of “a wave of such corporate losses.” Perhaps that explains why the Administration is now so touchy. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke [...]
Dreaming dreams into existence–the progressive way
By Chuck Roger • March 22nd, 2010 9:56 pm
There’s an old adage, “Where there’s a will there’s a way,” which like all adages, contains a glimmer of truth. Surely when a person or group of persons want very much to make something happen, there is a much better chance of that something happening than if nobody cared one way or the other. But [...]
Democrats’ reckless zealotry pushes unhealthy health care
By Chuck Roger • March 15th, 2010 10:01 pm
If Obamacare passes, America will be subject to its hideous societal and economic effects for a long time. Furthermore, as Reason Foundation’s Shika Dalmia writes in Forbes, “this monstrosity might cost the Democrats the Congress this November, ruin the party for a long time and prematurely render Barack Obama a lame duck president for the [...]
Healthcare ‘reform’ means never missing an opportunity to raise taxes
By Chuck Roger • December 22nd, 2009 12:19 am
Pay particular attention to the first tax increase on this list prepared by Americans for Tax Reform. Individual Mandate Tax(Page 324/Sec. 1501/$15 bil/Jan 2014): Starting in 2014, anyone not buying “qualifying” health insurance must pay an income surtax according to the higher of the following (page 71 of manager’s amendment updates Reid bill): Single [...]
The ‘right’ to healthcare
By Chuck Roger • September 2nd, 2009 3:53 am
After viewing a video which I e-mailed to readers this week, one reader asked to be removed from my distribution list because she’d seen enough “negative nonsense.” The video, immediately below, documents a policeman telling a demonstrator to stop displaying his anti-Obamacare sign, adding, “It ain’t [America] no more, okay?” I replied to the reader that [...]
