Feb 9
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Abusing kids needs defining: do you mean exposing them in the woods at birth, as has been historically popular and is still done in places? More efficient and city services-dependent Americans traditionally use dumpsters, of course. We’re up to date. Or is aborting them before they have a chance to show up a form of [...]
Jan 6
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Noting how much money disappeared in the direction of government led to wondering what we’re getting for it. Unlike our governors, we have to earn our money; we can’t just point a jail at someone and demand it. A big item is military defense. Defense from who? A few Seals and drones have returned al-Qaeda to just [...]
Jan 4
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We read of pricey New York hotel rooms for the mighty but they’re cheap compared to hospital room rates these days, right? But the Big Apple hospitals that have gone into competition with the hotels aren’t charging hotel prices let alone hospital rates, they’re free. A good thing, too since the guests are illegal aliens who [...]
Dec 6
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Barack Obama is either living in his own little fantasy world or trying to lull Americans to sleep by reading from his liberal-progressive, “Big Book of Fairy Tales.” Nothing approaching reality could explain the litany of inconsistent, unimaginable policies and statements coming from this President. Unless, of course, it is a deliberate willingness to deceive [...]
Nov 17
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BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE UNION COLLECTS DUES THROUGH FORCED UNIONIZATION Let’s begin with the bad part of the story, then move on to the really bad part of the story: Under Michigan law, parents who care for their disabled adult children at home and receive Medicaid payments as a result are considered to be ”home health-care givers,” and therefore [...]
Nov 17
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‘MAJOR GLITCH’ THREATENS BASIC FUNCTIONING OF LORD OBAMA’S PRIDE AND JOY While the focus on ObamaCare has largely centered on the constitutionality – or the lack thereof – of the individual mandate, the survival of the socialist health-care program will remain in doubt regardless of the outcome of the Supreme Court ruling next spring. Yep, the Democrats [...]
Nov 10
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They killed her because she wasn’t worth her upkeep. She wasn’t competent to approve the action; she was demented. Yeah back when she had her marbles, she said she believed in that. But that was then, this was now and she’s dead at the hands of the state. Sarah Palin’s death panel, right? In the [...]
Nov 5
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Government price controls always produce shortages; that’s a staple of economics. Most of us realize nobody sells below cost, right? But both Bush and Obama have “helped” us by imposing price controls onto certain prescription medicines and now the shortages are showing up. Responsibility unacknowledged, of course. The Bush-Obama Rx Shortages takes you to the report. [...]
Sep 30
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Asthmatics relieved by over-the-counter inhalers will have to obtain prescriptions and pay through the nose in future; the Obamans have decided to save the ozone instead of people. Obamans to Ban Asthma Inhalers for Environmental Concerns will explain. The worst of this is, all the propellant from all the world supply of inhalers dribbled into the [...]
Sep 18
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Republicans avid to repeal ObamaCare dig in their heels on the unfunded future trillions tied to the Medicare drug benefit they added during the Bush Administration. Beneficiaries pay 1/4th of the cost of prescriptions; the rest comes out of the government’s general fund with no specific tax to pay for it. This recalls the cold [...]
Today’s daily digest had two articles presenting the FDA’s case that regulating medical apps is a good idea and they should do this. They can be found here and here.
Since the FDA routinely approves drugs that have to be recalled due to patient deaths – this is stuff that goes in the body and is digested – and allows the seed producers of genetically modified grains such as soybeans (that would be Monsanto) to police themselves and does not require animal testing on the crops even when genes are added to the seed – also, something that is digested – what makes FDA officials think that regulating mobile medical apps is a trustworthy endeavor for them?
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Jul 2
Not too long ago, I was watching an evening news story where a number of dead bodies resulting from a disaster were placed in a mass grave and covered with soil by an earth-mover. The reporter said, “Twenty souls buried.” Twenty souls? How can a dead body be a soul? A soul is spirit, the [...]
Jun 25
It still amazes me how the media beat up on Sarah Palin for her lack of experience back in 2008, when in reality, she had more experience at running a government, making budgets and other administrative experience than Obama did. She had as much experience as Bill Clinton, I mean, my gosh, he was Arkansas’ [...]
Jun 20
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Okay, okay. For a second, close your eyes and follow along. Wait. Doesn’t work in this medium. Read this and THEN close your eyes and think through the scenarios. Or whatever. Consider dinner. Fine dining at a fancy schmancy restaurant. Over the course there will be 1000 people served. They can come in tables of [...]
New Dictator of U.S.A.
Mckinsey & Company, the world’s most respected business consulting firm, is being hauled before a congressional panel, led by Sen. Baucus (D) and Rep. Waxman (D), to punish the company… (read on for full McKinsey Report & news details…)
Jun 1
If you are in the medical or science business, yet you haven’t made a name for yourself, what do you do? You publish a paper. The quickie way of doing it is to decide what you want to write about, say a certain brain tumor and what causes it. Now you don’t have time or [...]
A Speech for Paul Ryan (or Any Republican) for Medicare.
Paul Ryan & His Medicare Plan
- I am not a republican. I am an Independent. Why? Because the Republicans keep doing things that tick me off. Mostly, because they are such wusses. But I support them because I can’t support the Democratic Party. Last presidential election, I sat contorted in my chair, squirming and telepathically sending McCain the right things to say. But he never said them. Hell, he never put up a decent fight. As Obama delivered lie after lie, skewed fact after fact, McCain seemed to stand above it all. Like he was too much of a gentleman to fight in the dirt. Now, I can respect that- but not when we are losing our nation. It’s time to get down and dirty. Now, Paul Ryan & his plan are under rabid, lie filled, sarcastic and ugly attack. And what do the Republicans do? They scuttle, like so many rats, under the bed! Republican politicians, hear this: You will lose office and this Nation if you do not get a back bone! The people in this country are on your side- but you are blowing it! Where is our Republican candidate? Where is the Republican message? You need to pay for commercials and you need to get it together as a party. You cannot, I repeat, cannot make YOUR personal election your priority. You need to keep the House, get some Senate seats and get the Presidency. John Boehner, provide leadership to your party! Whip them into a cohesive unit! At the very least, the Republicans need to be GLIB! You have so much ammunition to kill the Dems on so many issues all Americans will rally behind! I’m not sure why you brought up Medicare right before election time, but since you have, you may NOT retreat or you will lose. You need to come out with your fists up. Take the bull by the horn! Since none of you seem capable of writing a speech or saying what needs to be said, I have done it for you.
Here is what the republicans (especially Paul Ryan) should be saying concerning Medicare… continue reading
May 14
This morning, after my exercise class (where there was a lengthy discussion on personal responsibility and that American culture used to stress that one was to go out of the way to not inconvenience others and respect other people’s property and space) I stopped at a chain discounter to pick up a few household staples [...]
Rand Paul on the “right” to free health care. Interesting concept… would you call it extreme, or dead on?
“They don’t like the truth so they summarily dismiss it. They say it’s a government takeover of healthcare. A big lie just like [Nazi propaganda minister Joseph] Goebbels. You say it enough and you repeat the lie, repeat the lie, repeat the lie until eventually people believe it. Like blood libel, that’s the same kind of thing. The Germans said enough about the Jews and people believed it, and you have the Holocaust. You tell a lie over and over again.”
-Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen (Tenn.) on the House floor Tuesday night comparing Republican claims about the healthcare reform law to lies perpetrated by the Nazis that led to the Holocaust.
If he feels this strongly about lies, he’s just got to feel horrendously awful about how his ideological allies have been treating Sarah Palin over the last week and a half. I eagerly await his indignant speech on the House floor in regards to the libel, slander, and yes lies directed at her in such a hateful manner.
It really shouldn’t boggle the mind that PBS is blatantly to the left of anything mainstream in America. What’s particularly galling, however, is their adoration for a vicious cretin like Fidel Castro, and the heaps of praise they give for a health system that no sane person would believe is anywhere near the quality of the United States. Thanks to truly useful idiots like Ray Suarez, the once-venerable public television station continues to see its credibility get eroded.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
I’ve never been prouder to be a Virginian than this December.
And he’s right. Liberals do NOT have a good sense of humor!
Lifted in its entirety, I thought some of you might be interested in my own Attorney General Cuccinelli’s “Compass” e-newsletter with an update on the battle with the feds over the new healthcare law.
New federal regulations issued this week stipulate that the electronic health records–that all Americans are supposed to have by 2014 under the terms of the stimulus law that President Barack Obama signed last year–must record not only the traditional measures of height and weight, but also the Body Mass Index: a measure of obesity.
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Here’s some wonderful news for those who suffer from brain trauma:
The Slavica BioChem division of Hard to Treat Diseases, Inc. (HTDS) recently presented results from their hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) chamber study for treatment of traumatic brain injury. The positive results were presented to the 8th World Congress on the Brain Injury in Washington, DC in March, put on by the International Brain Injury Association. The gathering is the largest of its kind in the world. This year’s meeting was the most heavily attended ever, featuring therapists, social workers, medical professionals, psychologists, and researchers from all over the world, a PR Newswire article reported.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Ugh. Instead of funding fashionable causes that don’t kill nearly as many Americans as Alzheimer’s Disease does, the whiz-kids running our government decide it’s better to cut funding as their situation worsens. If reading up on medicine is your bag, you can’t do much better than perusing Jim Pinkerton’s blog, Serious Medicine Strategy. Jim’s a conservative, but he writes in an even-handed common sense style that the extremists on either side of the political spectrum will find a hard time arguing with.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
On another thread, Dave made a comment that struck me as both full of emotion and full of historical ignorance. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not calling Dave ignorant. In fact, I think he is fairly learned about most things historical. But if one is going to use history as a basis for the current political climate, he should understand what he talks about. Here is an excerpt:
You bet the peasants are pissed and storming the castles of the corrupt feudal lords who are holed up in their castle on the hill. Excuse me for not being polite to them or giving them the benefit of the doubt. Do you think I would have felt badly yesterday if every congressional office had been stormed by an angry mob? Probably not. Even Jesus drove the money changers out of the temple. Righteous anger and indignation is a fire that should be stoked, not extinguished. If all I can be and contribute is a keyboard crusader for the cause, then so be it. There is no shame in that but we all must do what we can to defeat the ideological barbarians in our midst.
Ah, the old “storming the castle of the feudal lords” bit. Something akin to Pat Buchanan’s “peasants with pitchforks.” Now this was a fun analogy to use when I was a twenty year old college student. But a funny thing happened on the way to adulthood: I actually learned that when those peasants had some success occupying the feudal castle, the nobles with horses and arms promptly cut them down, took off thier heads and made splendid examples of them at the gates. Hell, even Martin Luther condemned such nearsighted tactics!
As for “feeling bad if every congressional office were stormed by an angry mob” again, you make light of situations that could possibly lead to the death of many of your ideological bretheren. No one “storms” congressional offices at the Capitol or Hart buildings. And if they do in a Congressman’s district, they would be better off using their talents to vote the scoundrel out of office rather than sit in a jail cell.
Finally, when you claim that “righteous indignation is a fire that should be stoked, not extinguished” keep in mind that the workers of industrial Russia, the bourgeousie of revolutionary France, and peasants of 1524 Germany were all full of “righteous indignation.” In each case, tens if not hundreds of thousands lost their lives at the hands of their own countrymen.
UPDATE: If legislation cannot be enacted without a fringe minority always threatening violence then the republic is in trouble. House Democrats Face Violent Threats After Health Care Vote.
In one case, a gas line was cut outside the Virginia home of Rep. Tom Perriello’s brother after a conservative activist posted the address online, mistakenly thinking it was the congressman’s house. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating.
Biden’s gaffes are awesome! And in this case, this is, in fact, a big f- – - ing deal!
Anywhere from 25,000 to 50,000 people showed up for a final ‘kill the bill’ rally today as we stand on the brink of seeing one of the most blatantly intrusive and unconstitutional bills in the history of the Republic pass the House of Representatives. Tonight, many are in front of the Capitol building holding an all night vigil. Chances are the vote will pass so the next step to ponder is what the reaction needs to be. Multiple state attorney generals have lawsuits in place and ready to file as soon as it becomes law. Many states are readying to pass laws that would make it illegal for any entity to require its citizens to purchase health insurance. Others have notified the federal government that they will not cooperate or implement such a scheme if it becomes law. I hope we see massive civil disobedience and non-compliance by businesses and individuals of all kinds. And, of course, every single person who votes for this bill needs to pay with the loss of their congressional seat this fall.
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My friend Andre requested that I address the Democrat Healthcare proposal. Here is my reply.
It is kind of ironic, but I have spent the last week at the hospital for my annual reevaluation. They even quite literally kicked my tires. I hope Andre is still reading the blog, my apologies for not responding sooner. I will try to be brief.
As I write this it appears all but certain that the plan dubbed “Obama Care” will pass through House in some fashion tomorrow morning. I believe we will all regret this. Not all of us for the same reasons mind you, but all of us will have reasons for regret.
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I’m Easily Confused Edition
21st Century (Digital Boy)
As someone who freely admits that I am not that bright when it comes to details, and that I also get most of my news from partisan sources, I’m actually very curious about PG’s take on what is wrong with the current HCR bill. The politics behind it are pretty simple. I obviously don’t want the Dems to get slaughtered this year if they fail to pass it, which, as Zod looks at the polls, ain’t gonna happen anyway (if I had to guess I’d think -23/-5 from the current majority… on election night watch IN-02. As it goes, so goes the House, but I digress). From a policy standpoint, I don’t see the real problem.The bill seems to offer obvious fixes such as increasing Medicaid/S-CHIP access, better competition through pooling of individual-based policies, and very needed reform of the insurance industry, without much downside. It does contain an individual mandate, but also provides subsidies for those who can’t afford it, and it requires insurance companies to allow parents to insure their kids until the age of 26, so that seems to be a wash. On top of that, the CBO says it will, in fact, reduce the deficit and many more people will be insured, so I’d call that a win-win.
I’ll admit that it isn’t my first choice (single payer with optional private insurance), and I’d rather they pay for it through either a payroll or income tax, but once you peel away the scary, nonsensical socialized medicine crap that seems to be most of the basis for opposition, it seems like it’s just a package of pretty basic and necessary reforms. What am I missing?
Four score and 285 days ago (give or take a few), our nation elected someone they thought they knew. Today, not so much – but not to worry. All (or at least some of it, digitally enhanced and re-packaged to fit the format of your screen) will be revealed, when he gets a chance to re-introduce himself to the American public. I can hardly wait.
I admit that I was worried concerning the Brown throw down concerning the MSM spinning. But there is a reason why. The price of corruption shows no bounds and the People have had enough. And God help us all, they are a tad ticked off … so to speak.
There is a woman actually handing out absentee ballots. Why?
But that is neither here nor there anymore. How about this little tid bit as Brown is now elected in “The Peoples Seat” that Barney Frank is shaking in his boots concerning Obamacare.
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The first Era of Transparency post was penned by the Scribe last July. In it, Damien documented the fact that the Obama administration isn’t really giving us two choices regarding Cap and Trade and health care. He is pulling out the best of alternative scenarios and saying that Americans can have it all!
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On an earlier post by Sting, Dave and I have a comment exchange that goes something like this:
Dave: Al Franken sucks
Me: true but lots of Senators suck.
Dave: no, but Al Franken is really bad.
As it turns out, Franken may be one of the more noble Dems in the Senate. At the very least, he hasn’t sold his own reservations about Obamacare in exchange for a few hundred million dollars of pork. In all fairness, this isn’t even really “Obamacare” in the truest sense. It is some coagulation of spending and restrictions and restructuring made to look like the Senate has “done something.” In truth, as with everything else, they have done nothing but spend.
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Excerpts from the Harry Reid 2009 Blame Calendar
January. Stimulus Package Failure – Republicans
February. Stimulus Package Passage – Republicans
I don’t know why, but for me this summed up my feelings on the current state of health care reform.
Remember, history is calling – and voice mail is not an option.
“Is this bill all that I would want? Far from it. Is it all that it can be? No. But when history calls, history calls. And I happen to think that the consequences of inaction dictate the urgency of Congress to take every opportunity to demonstrate its capacity to solve the monumental issues of our time.”
–Olympia Snowe
Hang up the phone, that may not be history calling. . .
So Congress is going to demonstrate it’s capacity to solve the monumental issues of our time by adopting a bill that is far from what is wanted, and far from what it can be. Nice.
As for “consequences of inaction” – methinks that would be much better served as the name of a band, book or movie.
Remember when Democrats were the party of truth-telling? When they stood as the watchdog ready to correct the Republican spin masters and blow the whistle on evil Dick Cheney types everywhere? Well, now it appears the days of truth telling have been temporarily suspended. Michael F. Cannon and Ramesh Ponnuru have detailed no fewer than 20 *misleading* statements in the President’s speech to Congress. Here are three such *lies*:
#4 “One man from Illinois lost his coverage in the middle of chemotherapy. . . . They delayed his treatment, and he died because of it.” He didn’t die because of it. The originator of this false claim, a writer for Slate named Timothy Noah, has admitted he got it wrong.
#12. Requiring insurers to cover preventive care “saves money.” Nope. According to a review in the New England Journal of Medicine, “Although some preventive measures do save money, the vast majority reviewed in the health economics literature do not.”
#15. “Under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions.” Unless Obama refers to some draft legislation inside his head, this claim is false. The House bill allows the “government option” to pay for abortions directly from the U.S. Treasury. Both the House and Baucus bills would subsidize private insurance that cover abortions. (See Douglas Johnson’s comment on this article.)
Should I trust health insurance companies? Wes doesn’t it would appear based on his comments on this thread. I am not sure if Wes has read the posts I have been making regarding health care. In any event let me disabuse him of something: I really could careless where people put their “trust”. He does not “trust” insurance companies – so? (ADD: I do not mean “so” as in snubbing Wes. I mean it as in – “So, should we?”)
People constantly say “I don’t trust the government with my health care because they want to take away freedom and control my life”. Or they state the opposite “I don’t trust insurance companies because they just want to make money so they don’t pay claims”.
For what it is worth I believe most people are trustworthy and have the best of intentions, and that includes our president. So what? The problem is that we do not act rationally. The reason why it makes more sense for private industry to provide goods and services is because the profit motive provides a fiscal discipline. Not because they are any more or less trustworthy than the government.
Markets do not always behave rationally. Enlightened self interest is often not really enlightened or rational. We are flawed as individuals. Our companies and corporations where we act collectively are flawed also. Economic and financial models break down.
Yes it is true that insurance companies at times do not behave in the public interest. The thing is the government doesn’t either despite its intentions, and not because Nancy Pelosi is stupid, or because Obama is an evil Nazi. Just because markets and business do not always behave rationally does not mean that the regulations designed to correct them are always rational as written or implemented. They have unintended consequences also. The government is also inefficient in how it delivers health care. Medicaid is a bigger disaster than Medicare.
How foolish was Howard Dean’s admission that the Democrats lack the testicular fortitude to offer tort reform as part of ObamaCare? Every opponent of ObamaCare now has a handy sound bite to press the demand for tort reform as a show-stopper — and clearly paint the Democratic Party as a mouthpiece for trial lawyers. Charles Krauthammer used the clip to damn Dean and the Democrats with the faint praise of Dean’s “truth”, as Townhall’s Greg Hengler catches:”
I know this cat, ok it is me, but please don’t tell anyone, that needed some new wheelchair tires. This is his story. He has a million of them.
The tires on my manual wheelchair were bald. I have two chairs, one power (no, do not call it electric please) and one manual. That is important as we shall see. My power chair was $17,000.00 and paid for by private insurance. My manual chair was donated to me by the private rehabilitation hospital I stayed at for five months. My private insurer would only pay for one chair at a time. That is what the contract says – don’t ya know! I had Colorado Medicaid and Medicare but they will not pay for the “luxury” of a second chair. Someday I will tell you just what Medicare will pay for when it comes to wheelchairs (we already have mentioned commode chairs on another thread).
Anyway, after decades of handling thousands of SCIs and TBIs the dedicated therapists, doctors and nurses at my hospital decided it would not be good for patients to be without a “luxury” backup chair. Of course what do they know really? I mean the clerks at Medicare understand that effective treatment is to leave that patient in bed to soil themselves (yes I do have an issue with that), so what is the problem with leaving them in bed for days or weeks while the primary chair is fixed? I mean the silly therapists, doctors and nurses think skin sores, UTIs, painful spasms and a horrible quality of life that being confined to bed means is important. Medicare knows that saving $2000.00 on a chair is what is known as effective rationing of a scarce resource.
OK! OK! OK! I am going to be witty here!
By being mistaken Michelle’s husband Barry proves he is a know nothing fool.
At the town hall in Portsmouth, N.H., Obama said, “We have the AARP onboard because they know this is a good deal for our seniors.” He added, “AARP would not be endorsing a bill if it was undermining Medicare.”
But Tom Nelson, AARP’s chief operating officer, said, “Indications that we have endorsed any of the major health care reform bills currently under consideration in Congress are inaccurate.”
This proves his position is just plain wrong. Hey – Do you think this guffaw causing ooops statement might lead to anal and scat jokes about the man on Sadly, No! ?
As my friend Andre said…
“People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.” – Investor’s Business Daily editorial on the need to stop health care reform. It’s like they’re not even trying.
Update: I feel better. IBD deleted the sentence in question, and issued a correction today, and it is just all sorts of awesome… “Editor’s Note: This version corrects the original editorial which implied that physicist Stephen Hawking, a professor at the University of Cambridge, did not live in the UK.” Keep up the great work, guys.
Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) — Senate Democrats may decide to pass a U.S. health-care overhaul without Republican support if some opposition lawmakers don’t agree to a plan by mid-September, Senator Charles Schumer said.
Schumer, a New York Democrat, said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus set a Sept. 15 deadline for getting a bipartisan agreement among six senators on the panel who are negotiating a deal.
“If we cannot produce a bipartisan solution by then, you have to wonder if the Republicans would ever be willing to agree to anything,” Schumer said on a conference call with reporters yesterday. “We will enact health-care reform by the end of the year. If the Republicans are not able to produce an agreement, we will have contingencies in play.” Read the rest of this entry
Audience Shouts Down Sebelius, Specter at Health Care Town Hall in PhiladelphiaHealth and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Sen. Arlen Specter got a preview Sunday of the tough sell lawmakers will face over health care reforms.
Among those at odds with the officials touting the $1 trillion, 10-year plan was a woman who earned loud applause when she said she doesn’t want Washington interfering with her health care choices.
“I look at this health care plan and I see nothing that is about health or about care. What I see is a bureaucratic nightmare, senator. Medicaid is broke, Medicare is broke, Social Security is broke and you want us to believe that a government that can’t even run a cash for clunkers program is going to run one-seventh of our U.S. economy? No sir, no,” she said.
This lady’s comments remind me of the saying – “Socialized Medicine – Delivered with the efficiency of the Motor Vehicle Department, with the compassion of the IRS.”
I believe in effective and efficient universal coverage. I do not like the costly patchwork that we have now. I believe in portability. Our established policy of tying health coverage to a job is just simply wrong. I believe that exclusions and denials based on “uninsurabilty” should be abolished. Group rates based on the law of large numbers can effectively control the cost of insurance to individuals (premiums), and the exposure that insurance companies have through equal distribution of risk. Out of pocket expenses can be reduced by choice through elective coverage as is the case now with many group and individual policies.
We will need the government to force insure the percentage of the population that can afford coverage but does not carry it. Let the Populist-Libertarian-Luddites (PLL’s) complain all they want, but we already pay the uninsured’s health costs as a society. Those that can pay should regardless of how likely their potential loss is.
Health care is a form of welfare for part of society already. The government should on a needs basis pay the premiums in a private plan that is distributed equally among providers for those unable to pay for it themselves. Before my PLL friends complain about “them people will be taking my money and stuff”, keep in mind that they already do. This coverage should extend to legal and illegal alike. We again already pay for this. This would be a formal acknowledgement – yes - but also more efficient.
Abolish Medicare and Medicaid. They do not work well. They can not be tweaked to be more efficient. Get the government out of the health provider business and make the insurance industry pull the load they were designed to pull. There is nothing scarce about health care at all. It is not a “precious resource”. It is a commodity that we have plenty of. If we remove government interference in the market AND institute simple but effective insurance reforms we can control costs. The curve can be bent. Just not by the government.
The “Government Option” and the Single Payer system with its resultant socialized medicine is neither needed nor preferred. Sometimes ‘da peop’le get it right.
ADD: An excellent article on Medicaid in City Journal today. Make sure to read “The Making New York’s Private Health Insurance More Affordable” blurb at the end. There is plenty of money in the system, multiples of the funds required in fact. The key is to get rid of the hybrid system.
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