The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

‘L’Etat, C’est Moi’

President Obama is a law unto himself: “ObamaCare” is useful shorthand for the Affordable Care Act not least because the law increasingly means whatever President Obama says it does on any given day. He has once again delayed the employer mandate. The timetable for implementation of the law — which was written into the law […]

Three Realizations About #ObamaCare

by Smitty From Is Obamacare Unraveling? . . .the administration was thinking of extending the individual health insurance policies that Obamacare was supposed to have cancelled for as much as three more years. . . .with the literal drop dead date for these old policies hitting by December 31, 2014, that would have meant those […]

ObamaCare’s Compulsory Race Question

You can’t see a doctor now unless you fill out a questionnaire about race and ethnicity, and Maetenloch comments at AOSHQ: “Thanks Obama and Congress. These days I always put myself down as ‘Mixed’ since a) it’s true in the larger sense and b) it fucks up all their statistics.” Heh. If there is an […]

Failure Is Not a Public-Relations Problem: The Brutal Economics of ObamaCare

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail) The Congressional Budget Office report about the economic impact of ObamaCare is out, and it paints an ugly picture. The Hill: The new healthcare law will slow economic growth over the next decade, costing the nation about 2.5 million jobs and contributing to a $1 […]

ObamaCare Is Doomed

Megan McArdle recounts the basic case: In a nutshell, Obamacare has so far fallen dramatically short of what was expected — technically, and in almost every other way. Enrollment is below expectations: According to the data we have so far, more than half of the much-touted Medicaid expansion came from people who were already eligible […]

Does Christie Add Desirable Gravitas To The Republican Governor’s Association?

by Smitty It sure is the case that outgoing disgrace Bob McDonnell did not. The surprise $1B transportation bill a year ago still hasn’t been clearly explained, but it led into the ominous ethics cloud over McDonnell. That cloud was among the minor factors that hampered Ken Cuccinelli’s efforts last November. So Ken is an […]

Stand By For GOP Disaster On ObamaCare

by Smitty Pardon the pessimism, but the GOP seems to differ with the Administration more on style than substance, as Hayward notes at Breitbart: …indications are that the Republicans are backing away from ObamaCare, or at least from efforts to kill it. Jon Terbush at The Week delivered the news in an article entitled “It’s […]

The ObamaCare ‘Death Spiral’ Debate

ObamaCare is exactly the kind of policy failure its opponents predicted, although it has also failed in a few unpredicted ways. The only way anyone can call ObamaCare a “success” is in a political sense, i.e., it helped re-elect Obama. We might also say ObamaCare is a “success” in the sense that its unmistakable failure will […]

« go back — keep looking »