It is amusing when people do not consider the full ramifications of their actions. Take, for example, the hysterical reaction from the abortion industry when President Bush tried to expand sCHIP to cover prenatal care:
The Bush administration has drafted a new policy that would allow states to define ''an unborn child'' as a person eligible for ( Read more... )

Each day it becomes clearer to everyone that we are living in an Obamanation.

How's that hope and change working out for you?

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Negative in terms of interest rates...which has the same effect as higher inflation. I'm a bit worried about that prospect. Both because it is a bit like strapping a rocket to you car to make it go faster (how do you turn it off?) and because I think we're headed for much higher inflation anyway. What will come of adding more fuel to that fire?
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Why, it is doing horribly, as predicted.
Just a year after the universal coverage law passed, The New York Times reported, state insurers were already jacking up rates to twice the national average. According to Dr. Paul Hsieh, a physician and founding member of Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine, 43 mandatory benefits - including those that ( Read more... )

There are a lot of reasons why some US companies are in the state they are now regarding retirement benefits and health care costs.
DETROIT (AP) - General Motors Corp. will try to reduce its staggering employee and retiree health care liabilities in upcoming contract talks with the United Auto Workers, according to a government regulatory filing ( Read more... )