Category: Health

Healthy Housing Is a Human Right

Posted on by Dave Blount

“Housing Is a Human Right” is a favorite cry of communists who believe that everyone should be forced to finance everyone else’s needs. Under Hopey Change, this slogan has been upgraded to “Healthy Housing Is a Human Right.” The Regime has announced a new initiative entitled Advancing Healthy Housing, promising to protect us from “moderate […]

 

Obama Operatives Training Media How to Sell Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Old Media is getting a little help from team Obama on how to report about Obamacare the “correct” way. To achieve that goal, Obama operatives are setting up propaganda symposiums for journalists and giving large cash donations to journalism associations to help spread Obama’s word. This Obamacare propaganda campaign seriously blurs the line between […]

 

College Professors Lose Hours Because of Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of my favorite stories this week is the college professors at Pennsylvania’s Community College of Allegheny who’ve had their hours cut because of the costly requirements of Obamacare. One of Obamacare’s changes to general business practices is to make people who work 30 hours or more a “full time worker.” For generations that magic […]

 

Red Lobster, Olive Garden Testing Program Where Even Fewer Workers Are Full Time Due To ObamaCare

Posted on by William Teach

Who would have seen this coming? Legislation has consequences out in the Real World (Washington Times) The owner of Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants is putting more workers on part-time status in a test aimed at limiting costs from President Obama’s health care law. Darden Restaurants Inc. declined to give details but said the […]

 

After Slamming Palin, NY Times Excited for Up Coming Obama Death Panels

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For The New York Times, Steven Ratner had to admit last month that he was pretty darned excited for those Obamacare death panels to get started. “WE need death panels,” he said on September 16. This from the same paper that in 2009 attacked Gov. Sarah Palin for her rhetoric and an Old Media establishment […]

 

Doctors are sick of Obamacare

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Well, Obama can surely not count on doctors to back him in his re-election bid. Huffington Post’s Harry Bradford: posted on October 2: that: More than half of physicians say they’ll vote for Mitt Romney come November 6th compared to just 36 percent for Obama, according to a: recent survey by medical staffing firm Jackson and Cokey. In […]

 

Media Blasts Ryan, Acts as if AARP is Non-Partisan

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week the media was all over Paul Ryan’s visit to an event with the American Association for Retired People gleefully reporting that he was booed. The media treated the whole affair as if the AARP was some non-partisan organization. But, the truth is, the AARP is no more non-partisan than any organization carrying water […]

 

Good News: Wind Turbines Supposedly Making People Sick

Posted on by William Teach

Proponents of wind turbines say that this is all incidental and coincidental. Enough so that there is actually a medical condition name for it (UK Daily Mail) It was Uplawmoor’s tranquility and wild beauty that drew civil servant Aileen Jackson to settle there 28 years ago. She’d had enough of life in the big city. […]

 

WHAT! Andrea Saul Uses Romneycare To Slam Obama ‘Cancer’ Ad???

Posted on by Matt Vespa

  RedState’s Erick Erickson tweeted this could be the moment when Mitt Romney lost the election. In an interview of Fox News, Romney Press Secretary Andrea Saul decided to invoke Romneycare as a counterpoint to the despicable narrative being pushed by Priorities USA. : I’m sure you’ve seen the infamous ‘cancer ad.’ : Business Insider reported on […]

 

Obamacare Costs $1.9 Trillion AND Still Leaves 30 Million Uninsured

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Since the 5-4 decision to uphold Obamacare as constitutional through the taxing authority of Congress, the CBO gave their final grade. . : But it’s not biggie. : This entire overhaul is “deficit neutral” and will save money in the long run. : That’s what the Left try to sell us. : Even Joe Six Pack knows that something […]

 

Surprise! UNC Student Health Insurance Doubles In Two Years

Posted on by William Teach

Can anyone guess why? (WRAL) The University of North Carolina system requires all students to have health insurance coverage, but the cost of a plan the system offers has more than doubled in two years. The insurance requirement started in 2010, and about one-third of students on the system’s 16 university campuses buy their policy […]

 

Politico Offers 5 Ways To Kill Obamacare Without Repeal

Posted on by William Teach

Romney has said that “What the Court did not do on its last day in session, I will do on my first day if elected President of the United States. And that is I will act to repeal Obamacare.” Obviously, that doesn’t mean he will abolish it by executive order, as many liberals, including the […]

 

NHS horror story: neglected patient calls police for water, dies of thirst

Posted on by Wintery Knight

I spotted this: UK Daily Mail: story on my FB feed from bioethicist: Wesley J. Smith. Excerpt: A young patient who died of dehydration at a leading teaching hospital phoned police from his bed because he was so thirsty, an inquest heard yesterday. Officers arrived at Kane Gorny’s bedside, but were told by nurses that he was in […]

 

VIDEO: Democrats Next to Move to Unionize Obamacare Doctors

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In another sign that our healthcare industry is soon to be just another arm of the Democrat Party, Chicago are Democrat Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky thinks it’s a great idea if doctors unionize. This will completely end any chance that doctors will care about patients. They will instead become just another uncaring, slipshod union hack that […]

 

CNN Mistakenly Reported Roberts Overturned Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Seven minutes of “f**king humiliation” is how one CNN staffer described the morning faux pas the “most trusted name in news” made when it reported that Chief Justice John Roberts overturned Obamacare’s mandate this morning. As the Supreme Court of the United States was delivering its long awaited decision on Obamacare, CNN’s on-air news reader, […]

 

Chief Justice John Roberts: Trojan Horse?

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Conservatives are scratching their heads trying to figure out why Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts voted with the four liberal Justices on the Court 5-4 to uphold the constitutionality of the most controversial part of Obamacare. Even swing vote Justice Anthony Kennedy voted against it. The Obamacare individual mandate requires all Americans […]

 

States In No Hurry To Implement Health Insurance Exchanges

Posted on by William Teach

Most states have been lollygagging on creating the health insurance exchanges, ie, government sponsored insurance plans that include government mandates on coverage offered through governmentally approved insurance companies that everyone and every company must move to if they make any changes to their existing plans, and plan on continued lollygagging (WRAL) North Carolina lawmakers said […]

 

An Obamacare Alternative For Mitt Romney

Posted on by John Hawkins

You often hear the words “repeal and replace” come up when Republicans talk about Obamacare. However, most conservatives don’t note what the replacement will be. Here’s the nucleus of a considerably more effective plan. Towards that end, we should push a bill that will include: tort reform, streamlining the regulations that make bringing a new […]

 

R.I.P. Liberty

Posted on by Michael Fell

On June 28, 2012 at 10:15 a.m. EST, obamacare was ruled unconstitutional via the Commerce Clause, yet ruled Constitutional on the grounds that it is a tax, even though the current White House occupant claimed it wasn’t a tax while jamming it through Congress and trying unsuccessfully to sell it to the American public. http://www.wtop.com/209/2109971/High-court-upholds-key-part-of-Obama-health-law […]

 

Romney: Obamacare Is A “Moral Failure”

Posted on by William Teach

Mitt doesn’t hold back (MSNBC) Mitt Romney reserved some of his harshest criticism of President Barack Obama’s health care reform law for the eve of the Supreme Court ruling that will decide its fate, labeling the law as “moral failure” by a president who chose to focus on healthcare, rather than jobs, at a time […]

 

As We Await Mandatemageddon, ObamaCare Still Pretty Darned Unpopular

Posted on by William Teach

But, says this poll, so is the current US health system. Must have really killed Obama cheerleader Chris Cillizza to write this (Washington Post) A majority of Americans view both the United States’ current health care system and the changes enacted in President Obama’s health care bill in an unfavorable light – a one-two punch […]

 

E.J. Dionne Wonders If We’ll Miss Obamacare If SCOTUS Kills It

Posted on by William Teach

Does anyone think Obamacare supporters are getting a bit nervous over the coming announcement as to how the Supreme Court rules on Obamacare? Here’s EJ Dionne’s take Any day now, the U.S. Supreme Court may make possible something that has yet to happen: an honest and complete discussion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care […]

 

NY Times: Democrats Thought Mandate Was Constitutional Because They Said It Was Constitutional

Posted on by William Teach

Things are getting a little tense for Democrats and the far left Democrat voters as they see the good possibility that the Obamacare health insurance mandate will be shot down this week by the Supreme Court. There is even the possibility that the whole thing will be shot down because the wholly Democrat legislation did […]

 

High Court’s Decision On ObamaCare Could Seriously Bum Out Progressives

Posted on by William Teach

Awwwwwww, what a shame (The Hill) A Supreme Court decision striking down President Obama’s healthcare law would be a blow not just to Obama, but to the decades-long push for universal healthcare. As most realize, that is what ObamaCare is about: a step towards putting the federal government in charge of the health care decisions […]

 

Excitable Juan Williams: Killing The Mandate Will Harm Voter Trust Of Supreme Court

Posted on by William Teach

We last saw Juan Williams getting beaten like a rented mule by Michelle Malkin. He now has an article out proclaiming that if the Supreme Court rules against Obamacare they will damage the trust of the voters who, um, don’t vote for the Supreme Court in the first place (The Hill)Every political strategist working the […]

 

Biased Media Reports Non-News

Posted on by Michael Fell

Once again, a proud, card-carrying member of the “progressive” Party Pravda is wasting readers’ time. The headline reads: “On eve of health ruling, Ruth Bader Ginsburg predicts ‘sharp disagreement’”. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77479.html How is it possible that Kyle Cheney is getting paid to spell bind readers with such gems as: “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg laid waste Friday […]