Heathcare
Two explanations for the President’s inexplicable remark
By Tom Quiner In the summer of 2009, angry voters crammed into townhall meetings with their Senators and Congressman. They expressed in no uncertain terms their concerns about the health care legislation being advanced by the Democratic Party. They were against it. They responded in three critical off-year elections by defeating candidates in Virginia, New…
Read MoreWhat is the most important vote on Tuesday’s ballot?
By Tom Quiner Iowans are faced with huge choices on Tuesday. Do we replace our big-spending Governor? Do we oust three activist Supreme Court judges who imposed gay marriage on Iowa? Do we replace a Congressman with a 100% voting record on the Pelosi index with a fiscally-prudent conservative? These are all big choices. But…
Read MoreMore fallout from Obamacare
By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR81QAOOHWU] “When people better understand the Affordable Care Act, they’ll understand, I think, that this isn’t something being done to them but is something that’s really going to be valuable to them.’’ This was the President’s recent defense of the Affordable Care Act, also know as ObamaCare. The law mandates elimination of…
Read MoreSebelius vs. Gingrich
By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez07-vQrGfE&feature=player_embedded] Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sibelius, has issued two major threats to the healthcare industry. Threat #1: “There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain…
Read MoreA radical controls a budget larger than the Pentagon’s
By Tom Quiner The healthcare of one out of three Americans is controlled by a radical. I wrote about this man, Donald Berwick, in my Quiner Diner’s post on May 26th. You can read about his radical health care ideas there. Here is the essence of his philosophy: “I am romantic about the National Health…
Read MoreHow to boost America’s economy now
By Tom Quiner This Labor Day, 2010, our economy is hurting. Everything the President and his party has tried has failed. Unemployment is way up. Economic growth is stagnant. Net job creation doesn’t exist. The stock market is going nowhere fast. The underlying premise of the President is that only government can get the economy…
Read MoreObamaCare hurts Health Savings Accounts
By Tom Quiner I am self-employed, the owner of a small business. In order to control health insurance costs, my wife and I purchased a policy with a high deductible supplemented by a Health Savings Account (HSA). The high-deductible policy reduced my premiums substantially. The HSA allows me to save up to $5000 of tax…
Read MoreTwo reasons Obamanomics isn’t creating jobs
By Tom Quiner As many of you know, jobs are hard to come by. The unemployment rate continues to hover near ten percent despite stimulus spending by the Federal Government which will surpass the cost of the Iraq War (see previous post). Nothing the Democrats have done is working. In fact, the case can be…
Read MoreShould you be free to choose?
By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD0dmRJ0oWg&feature=player_embedded] What an interesting question! It depends on the context, doesn’t it? It depends on the principle involved. I pose the question in light of the great exchange in the video above between the late, great Nobel laureate economist, Milton Friedman, and a college student who is allegedly Michael Moore. (I don’t…
Read MoreLet us reconsider ObamaCare
Last March 18th, Richard Foster, chief actuary for the Center Medicare and Medicaid Services, presented with Congress’ 2700 page health care bill. His job was to assess the impact ObamaCare would have on America. Unfortunately, Congress wasn’t interested in waiting for his analysis.
…We’ve been sold a bill of goods. ObamaCare tries to cheat the laws of supply of demand instead of letting supply and demand control costs and increase access to healthcare.
According to Medicare’s actuary, according to the Congressional Budget Office, according to health care benefit professionals, America will be poorer and unhealthier under ObamaCare.
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