Once again, there is so much out there that I am somewhat at a loss to focus on a single issue. If you haven’t been hibernating early, the newsworthy items include the refugee problem, the Paris and Mali attacks, the VA travesty regarding its treatment of veterans, the Missouri-inspired (or was it Yale) episode of […]
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Oh the days when our worries were only over Obamacare. But we can still worry about that too!
20 Nov 2015
In the midst of huge foreign policy concerns, societal breakdown on multiple dimensions, its easy to forget about our top concern a couple of years ago: the government takeover of our health care system. We predicted disaster, and Obamacare has never been popular with the American people. It came at great cost to the Democratic party, […]
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What is that one good thing (among others)? It is that his exit is potentially a blow to the US Chamber of Commerce, that supposedly “conservative” group of business leaders who are really not conservative except in a very limited sense. Here is what is going on. The Chamber has decided it will spend over […]
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Well, the Supreme Court has done it again. By a vote of 6-3, including in the majority Chief Justice John Roberts, the court in the case of King v. Burwell, upheld the Obama administration’s reading of the Obamacare law that dealt with state exchanges. You may remember, that this had been the subject of a […]
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While the Ferguson, Missouri riots take center stage in the news, other events are occurring too, and important ones. For one thing, Thanksgiving is nearly here and Christians everywhere in America should take time to give thanks to God for who He is and for the abundant grace He has granted to each of us […]
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What are Republicans Saying? Nothing Much Yet.
11 Nov 2014
Something was missing from the recent Republican campaign efforts. Though they did retake the Senate and several governor’s mansions, most were strangely silent on what might have been some winning issues. These included Obamacare, school reform and reforming bureaucracy and regulation. Obamacare did receive some attention, which is good, and all the new senators vowed […]
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Spinning the Medicare Data Release
09 Apr 2014
Today the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a partial data set on payments to Medicare providers. While the data will provide some interesting insights on Medicare payments, for example the Wall Street Journal says: The top 1% of 825,000 individual medical providers accounted for 14% of the $77 billion in billing recorded […]
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I’ve been a bit under the weather lately (sick for over a week now–which is unusual for me). Of course I don’t like to go to the doctor–like most of us–but I didn’t think I had a doctor, since I’d recently received a letter from my insurance company letting me know my doctor was leaving […]
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Obamacare by the Numbers: Who Really Cares?
22 Feb 2014
The Congressional Budget Office recently reported new numbers related to the impact of the Affordable Care Act. The report provided good news for Democrats and other presidential supporters when it estimated that the number of uninsured has dropped to approximately 30 million Americans. On balance, however, Republicans and opponents have more fodder for the political […]
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Rex Lex: Health Care Provision Delayed Again
11 Feb 2014
This fruit hangs so low you can pick it with your feet. Pardon me while I take off my shoes. The Obama Administration has delayed, once again, the employer mandate for ObamaCare. Under the law’s original provision, companies with between 50 and 99 employees were required to provide coverage for workers or face a fine […]
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