Tag Archives: Healthcare Reform
All You Can Eat Healthcare and the Road to Socialized Medicine: One Family’s Perspective

All You Can Eat Healthcare and the Road to Socialized Medicine: One Family’s Perspective

The doctor looked at me and asked if I knew I had a heart murmur.  “No,” I replied nervously, “no one has ever said that to me before.”

He prescribed an echo cardiogram.  “It’s probably nothing,” he said, “but we need ...Read more

Ideological Jihad v. The Great Healthcare Compromise

Ideological Jihad v. The Great Healthcare Compromise

Oblivious to reason or even practical political considerations, President Obama and the Democratic Leadership in Congress are on a jihad.  They are blowing up all of their own political capital in a narrow-minded, quixotic, and ultimately ideological drive for a ...Read more

The Unyielding President and the State of our Disunion

The Unyielding President and the State of our Disunion

In the wake of the massacre in Massachusetts, Barack Obama had essentially two choices when it came to the way he approached his State of the Union speech, and the policies that would follow from it.  He could accept the ...Read more

Mr. Brown and His Truck Go to Washington

Mr. Brown and His Truck Go to Washington

In the waning days of the 2008 Presidential election, Candidate Barack Obama spoke of transformation in the nation. His whole campaign was based on “Hope and Change” and many voters, who suffered from Bush-Cheney fatigue, years of war and ...Read more

Taking Stock: Grading Obama's Domestic Economic Policies His First Year in Office

Barack Obama became America’s 44th President in troubled economic times. On the home front, his “conservative” predecessor had authorized spending that created a deficit of $l.3 trillion. Real-estate markets, stock markets, and financial markets collapsed. Advanced economies run on ...Read more