Category Archives: Healthcare

Homo Economicus Disagrees With White-House Looter

Barack Obama, Economy, Healthcare

It’s pretty straightforward to the generic Homo Economicus, but not to “The Ass With Ears And His Ali Baba Thieves.” On a day the latter put out their 16 sweet reasons to sign up for Obamacare, other more clear-thinking individuals came up with a much more intuitive list of 16 not-so-sweet reasons not to, among them:

Privacy concerns
Unwanted coverage
Can’t keep your doctor
The young do not need it
Glitches galore
Government overreach
Prohibitive costs
Employers cutting jobs

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Obamacare An Abomination Whatever The Numbers

Healthcare, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Natural Law

There is not one non-statist bone in JONATHAN COHN’s body (of writing). On the healthcare beat, this New Republic writer finds ways to beat Obamcare data into shape around the premise that this medical juggernaut is working.

Thus, victory is declared on account that “new government figures show that slightly fewer than 1 million people enrolled in February” and that by “March 31 … the number should exceed 5 million.” No matter that over 6 million policies (and counting) have been cancelled, and that many of the millions scrambling for coverage and enrolling are those … whose so-called subpar plans were cancelled on them.

Are we not talking an overlapping population that needs to be teased out here? (Hence the Venn diagram.) Or are liberals too dumb to have figured that out?

Naturally, even if Obamacare signs up more people than it kicked out of the insurance market—this will not vitiate the law’s violations of individual liberties.

UPDATED: A Shrub Between Two Ferns (Galifianakis: A Good Kind Of Goofy)

Barack Obama, Bush, Healthcare, Pop-Culture

The Shrub, aka George Bush, stood apart. Plant life, however, frames Barack Obama just as well. Zach Galifianakis is host of “Funny Or Die” and “Between Two Ferns.” Here Galifianakis lets Barack Obama drone on, “Between Two Ferns,” about “that thing that doesn’t work.”

UPDATE (3/11/014): Galifianakis: A Good Kind Of Goofy.

Wasn’t it obvious that the star in the clip is Galifianakis, not Obama? Seriously, did someone not get that? Facebook Friends didn’t. They do not appreciate off-beat, “awkward humor.”

UPDATED: How Do I Hate Thee, Barack Hussein Obama? Let Me Count The Ways

Barack Obama, English, Healthcare, Literature, South-Africa

As some of you know, I’ve been waylaid by a diabolical flu, now in its 5th week. Recovery is glacial. Today came a setback dealt by a bill for $307! The bill, for a meager chest X-Ray, is one I never imagined I’d get. Something as elementary as ruling out pneumonia in a patient is no longer covered in full, thanks to fuckface Obama. And I enjoyed a good insurance plan before fuckface’s distribution scheme went into effect. I can’t imagine the costs shouldered by those of you who did not have as comprehensive a plan as I had.

So How Do I Hate Thee, Barack Hussein Obama?

How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.
I hate thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I hate thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I hate thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I hate thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I hate with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I hate thee with a hate I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, — I hate thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! — and, if God choose,
I shall but hate thee better after death.

With apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

UPDATE: “Not even in South Africa would we pay so much for an X-ray..!! R3300.25 No way… what the hell is happening there??” Brian James Smith via Facebook.