Heathcare
Obama’s Catholic con job
By Tom Quiner Quick recap: Barack Obama, by presidential fiat imposed a health insurance mandate on faith-based organizations. The Obama Mandate dictates these organizations must require three types of services regardless of whether it violates their conscience or not. These services include: √ Abortifacients like the morning after pill, a pill that kills human life.…
Read MoreThe issue obscured by the Obama Mandate
Did you watch television last night? If you did, I bet you saw commercials for Geico, Progressive, and State Farm peddling low car insurance rates. Did you ever wonder why you don’t see the same market dynamic with health insurance? There is a one word answer: government.
Read MoreThe rationale of health insurance reform
By Tom Quiner You, as a voter, are faced with two competing rationales when it comes to health insurance reform. The Democratic approach uses massive government control as being implemented in Obamacare. The Republican approach focuses on consumer control. Obamacare imposes a mandate on consumers. In other words, you will be required by law to…
Read MoreRomney is willing to retain parts of Obamacare
By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI5JjBHq8_0&feature=player_embedded] Mitt Romney appreciates aspects of Obamacare. This is understandable. After all, President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid modeled Obamacare after Romneycare health insurance legislation enacted in Massachusetts when Mitt Romney was governor. Mr. Romney said his legislation provided consumers with “incentives” to purchase health insurance. This is a nicer word…
Read MoreHealth insurance implosion continues in Iowa
By Tom Quiner Here’s what is happening in Iowa: health insurance companies are pulling out of the Iowa market. Thirteen companies have pulled out of the the market here in the past sixteen months. These companies are victims of Obamacare, according to the CEO of the latest company to pull out of the market, Des Moines-based…
Read MoreThe House should defund Obamacare
By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02V2x_fs3MQ] I got the bad news this week. My healthcare premiums are going up $720 the next twelve months. My wife and I are self-employed and own a high-deductible health savings account (HSA). This type of plan make sense in many respects. We essentially pay the first $5000 of our medical costs.…
Read MoreIs preventative healthcare cost-effective?
By Tom Quiner According to Rutgers economist, Louise Russell, “prevention usually adds to medical spending.” She’s studied it. She wrote about it in the Journal of Health Affairs in 2009. She says that : Four out of five preventive options “add more to medical costs than they save.” The President doesn’t care about the cost,…
Read MoreDo you want Kathleen Sebelius to tell your dentist how to clean your teeth?
I just got back from the dentist where I had my teeth cleaned. Section 4102 of Obamacare is charged with setting standards for “tooth-level surveillance.” This is but one of 1968 new powers granted to government bureaucrats. My dentist has done just fine without Obamacare telling him how to do it. Butt out, Mr. President and Ms. Sebelius.
Read MoreDid Republicans really deceive the public?
What would ABC have to say if the government wouldn’t allow them to broadcast their show across state lines, just as they don’t allow health insurance companies to market their services across state lines?
Read MoreWhy high unemployment is here to stay
By Tom Quiner In a typical economic recovery, the economy starts growing and eventually job creation follows suit. I’m not overly optimistic about the likelihood of a robust surge in job creation because of Obamacare. Let’s say you’re a small business owner with 47 employees. Obamacare creates a disincentive to add new employees, because once…
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