Remember Donald Berwick?

Obama recess appointed Donald Berwick as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services because he knew he would never pass Congressional muster. Wednesday, President Obama said he plans to nominate Marilyn Tavenner, essentially giving up on Berwick. Tea Party. You did this. In case you need a refresher on Berwick, Hal Shertz has [...]

November 23, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Recommendation on SC health exchange – “NO”

We’ve been talking here about the idea of setting up a state health exchange on our blog since back in the Spring. Look here and here to catch up. Last session a bill to set up a health exchange IN FURTHERANCE OF OBAMACARE was introduce by S’burg Dem Mitchell and CO-SPONSORED by a few of [...]

November 16, 2011  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

SCOTUS Schedule of Obamacare hearing

Philip Klein of Washington Examiner has this: DAY ONE: Morning: Two hour argument on the core question, whether Congress exceeded its power by enacting the individual mandate. Afternoon: One hour argument on whether the Anti-Injunction Act, which bars courts from interfering with the collection of taxes, means that the Supreme Court cannot even rule on [...]

November 15, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Supreme Court to review health reform lawsuits next month

Sam Baker at The Hill.com with a sketch of this story: The Supreme Court will consider whether to hear a challenge to the healthcare reform law at a private conference on Nov. 10. Six separate petitions have been filed asking the court to decide whether the law’s individual coverage mandate is constitutional. Five of the [...]

October 26, 2011  Tags:   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

CLASS … Dems now admit “won’t work”

A cornerstone of Obamacare, one which the Dems pinned their hopes of “deficit neutral” on … the CLASS portion (Community Living Assistance Services and Supports) has now been deemed a failure. Byron York reports at the Washington Examiner: During the health care debate in 2009 and 2010, Democrats claimed that the program would not only [...]

October 14, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

House Strips Abortion from Obamacare

Matthew Clark at ACLJ.com reports: The U.S. House of Representatives today voted overwhelmingly to pass the Protect Life Act, H.R. 358, by a vote of 251 to 172 – including the support of 15 Democrats. This bipartisan bill will strip abortion funding and abortion related mandates from ObamaCare. The bill also prohibits discrimination by any [...]

October 13, 2011  Tags:   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

WH Emails reveal Obamacare accounting fraud

Not that we need to know more about Obamacare to know how dangerous it is, and how despicable its authors are, but this article was so plain and informative I wanted to share. Guy Benson, writing at Townhall.com reports on the CLASS portion of Obamacare, and the absolute lie and failure it is. Rep. Paul [...]

October 12, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Another good Rick Perry ad

Great ads so far by the Perry campaign. Woefully poor debate performances thus far.

October 10, 2011  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Kent Conrad. Screwed by Obamacare.

I remember Senator by Senator (and when my memory fails me, there is Google) who pretended to be thoughtful and concerned and deliberative before they followed Reid and Pelosi over the cliff by voting for Obamacare. Former Senator Conrad … former because his vote cost him any chance at re-election and so he retired … [...]

October 5, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

South Carolina’s “Health Planning Committee” Doesn’t Do Much Planning

South Carolina Policy Council has a report on the Governor’s Health Planning Committee … that says there’s not much planning, not much of anything going on. The South Carolina Health Planning Committee, established by the governor, is now in its fifth month. Its mission is (1) to recommend either that the state set up a [...]

October 4, 2011  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments