Bernie Sanders and other socialists claim that the study I linked to supports their cause. Perhaps I should have simply quoted the entire last paragraph of the study:

As noted earlier, the federal cost of enacting the M4A Act would be such that doubling all federal individual and corporate income taxes going forward would be insufficient to fully ( Read more... )

The Medicare-for-All (M4A) proposal is rather misleading. It is being proposed by Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Andrew Gillum, and others of dubious honest and understanding.

These socialists have suggested that switching to this plan will save money. That “save money” bit is for all expenditures on healthcare, dropping by less than $ ( Read more... )

The woman who tried to breach the barricades around the White House (and perhaps the Capitol building) allegedly had a history of mental illness. You can tell that there was insanity going on: She fired seventeen shots at an unarmed person.

Well, actually, that was the police. But in any event, Miriam Carey was not in her right mind, and is no ( Read more... )

I just saw an article reminding me that Obamacare authorizes a surcharge / penalty for up to 50% of the insurance premium for smokers.  When companies began doing this in 2011, the New York Times was unhappy: They rolled out an attack focusing on Walmart.  They were aghast, calling it “a shift toward penalizing employees with unhealthy lifestyles ( Read more... )

While looking at another topic (check back tomorrow), I stumbled across this odd item.  Remember the “naked cannibal face-eating zombie” in Florida who was allegedly on “bath salts” as the reason for his behavior?  (Later, this was said to be merely marijuana.) I’d not heard of “bath salts” as a narcotic prior to the incident, but subsequently have ( Read more... )

Once again, cantaloupes are causing a meloncholy feeling at the CDC, which used to be called the “Center for Disease Control.”  (It got pluralized, and various tweaks were made because “control” was considered too late. It wound up as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which of course abbreviates to CDC.)( Read the rest of this entry » )