Category: Health Care Craziness

The Delivery Presents – Nuggets for the Social Media Ninjas (And Medicare with Ben!)

The Delivery Presents – Nuggets for the Social Media Ninjas (And Medicare with Ben!)

| August 24, 2012 | Reply

I felt like making a little change in Episode 161, so I pushed the politics to the back half of the show. This week, that means the show will finish with a nice meaty discussion of health care reform with one of the smartest guys on the planet on the subject, Ben Domenech (Heartland Institute, [...]

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The Delivery Presents – The Whys of Friday

The Delivery Presents – The Whys of Friday

| July 10, 2012 | Reply

Hallelujah, we got Episode 154 made, thanks to an eleventh-hour effort by Verizon to fix my internet connection after a seven day outage! The story of that sad week, and some related thoughts about how important the internet has become as a means of delivering basic information about the world around us, fills the first [...]

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Excuse Me, But May I Interrupt for a Couple Minutes?

Excuse Me, But May I Interrupt for a Couple Minutes?

| July 2, 2012 | 1 Reply

I understand that we conservatives have to beat up John Roberts. After all, he apparently destroyed America as we know it on Friday when in his Obamacare decision he… …well, wait. What exactly did he do? I don’t want to get between conservatives and our various displays of outrage and outbursts vituperation, but can we [...]

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Our President Shows Off His Scholarity with Much Unintentional Hilarity

Our President Shows Off His Scholarity with Much Unintentional Hilarity

| April 3, 2012 | 3 Replies

Has anyone mentioned lately that our President, Barack Obama, is a constitutional scholar? I ask because he didn’t seem to have a very good grip on matters Constitutional yesterday when asked about the possibility that the Supreme Court might overturn his signature piece of legislation. I want to give you his full answer as recorded [...]

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Wow, That's Some Expensive Health Care

Wow, That's Some Expensive Health Care

| April 2, 2012 | 2 Replies

Well smack my bottom and call me Shecky! Obamacare is actually going to drive prices higher instead of lower. Who could possibly have guessed? Range of impact on insurance carriers. yfrog.com/h4syebp — Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) April 2, 2012 Note here who is going to absorb the lion’s share of the cost hikes. In a world [...]

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They're Always Shocked When We're Not Stupid

They're Always Shocked When We're Not Stupid

| March 30, 2012 | 16 Replies

Frank J. is a very, very smart man. Anyway, this got me thinking, it sure would be intellectually honest if more people started framing their arguments in the terms, “I don’t like freedom on this issue and here is why…” You pretty much never see that. I mean, gun control is an anti-freedom stance, but [...]

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Will President Obama Force Us to Swallow the Totalitarian Pill?

Will President Obama Force Us to Swallow the Totalitarian Pill?

| February 15, 2012 | Reply

Put me in the same camp as Stacy McCain. Some readers may wonder why I haven’t published anything about the battle over mandatory contraceptive coverage under ObamaCare. Basically, it’s because every time I try to do it, I tend to write a couple of thousand words before discarding the draft. How in the world can I [...]

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The Delivery Presents – The Big Health Care Number and What is Cool.

The Delivery Presents – The Big Health Care Number and What is Cool.

| January 27, 2012 | 1 Reply

For Episode 131, I turned to one of the smartest and coolest people I know — Ben Domenech of the Coffee and Markets podcast, among other places — to join me for the entire show. I won’t even begin to describe everything you’ll get in the whole hour, but I’ll give you two little tidbits. [...]

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Here Comes the Doom: Obamacare to SCOTUS

Here Comes the Doom: Obamacare to SCOTUS

| November 14, 2011 | 1 Reply

Mollie Hemingway brings the news that the Supreme Court will take up the matter of Obamacare’s Constitutionality next year.

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The Stimulus that Dare Not Speak Its Name

The Stimulus that Dare Not Speak Its Name

| August 30, 2011 | 5 Replies

This morning Jeffrey Anderson noted that the latest Rasmussen poll had a couple interesting things to say about Obamacare. First, the voting public wants it gone — not just partially gone or mostly gone, but erased from the very fabric of space and time like a cupcake after a two-week Michael Moore fast. Second, independent [...]

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