Does anyone in government stop and think about what they are really doing, anymore? Here’s the latest story of some ridiculous lack of judgment by a government regulator. A 7-year-old girl in a suburb of Portland, Oregon sets up a lemonade stand at a neighborhood festival and starts serving lemonade made from bottled water and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Health Care Reform’
Your Tax Dollars At Work, Protecting Americans From Unlicensed Neighborhood Lemonade Stands
Posted in America, Healthcare Reform, tagged America, Bureaucrats, Government, Health Care Reform, Healthcare Reform, Lemonade Stands on August 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Voters Begin To Speak On “Health Care Reform”
Posted in America, Healthcare Reform, Politics, tagged America, Congress, Health Care Reform, Healthcare Reform, Missouri, Politics, President Obama on August 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Tuesday’s election in Missouri included a ballot initiative where voters were asked to weigh in on whether a key provision of the “health care reform” legislation — the “individual mandate” that requires people to either get health insurance or pay a penalty — should be invalidated. More than 71 percent of the Missouri voters voted [...]
Recognizing Taxes As Taxes
Posted in America, Healthcare Reform, Politics, tagged America, Congress, Health Care Reform, Healthcare Reform, Politics, President Obama, taxes on July 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Times recently carried an interesting article on the Justice Department’s arguments against claims that the “health care reform” legislation is unconstitutional. The “linchpin” of the argument is that the individual mandate, which requires people to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, is constitutional as an exercise of Congress’ broad taxing power. [...]
The Massachusetts Mess, Coming Soon To A Neighborhood Near You
Posted in America, Healthcare Reform, Politics, tagged America, Health Care Reform, Healthcare Reform, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Health Plan, Politics on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Wall Street Journal has published an article with the latest news from Massachusetts — the state whose universal health care program served as the model for the federal program that will soon be taking effect nationwide. The news, to put it mildly, is not good. The highlights (or rather lowlights): * The Massachusetts plan [...]
Thoughts On The “Tanning Tax”
Posted in Healthcare Reform, Politics, tagged Botox, Cosmetic Surgery, Health Care Reform, Healthcare Reform, Indoor Tanning, Jobs, Politics, Tanning Beds, Tanning Tax, Unemployment on July 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A few days ago a 10 percent federal “tanning tax” took effect. The tax is one of the revenue-generating provisions of the “health care reform” bill. It applies only to tanning beds and other devices that use ultraviolet rays to give customers tans and is expected to generate some $2.7 billion in annual revenue. The [...]
Be Careful What You Ask For
Posted in America, Healthcare Reform, Politics, tagged America, Congress, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Politics on May 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of the first rules learned by trial lawyers is this: when cross-examining an adverse witness at trial, you never ask a question if you don’t know how the witness must answer that question. You don’t want surprises, and asking one question too many and getting an unexpected answer that is a spear to the [...]
It’s About Time
Posted in America, Family, Healthcare Reform, Politics, tagged America, Family, Gay Rights, Health Care Reform, Healthcare Reform, Lesbian Rights, Politics, President Obama on April 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last night President Obama directed the Department of Health and Human Services to require all hospitals that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding — which means virtually every hospital in the United States — to afford visitation rights to the partners of gay men and lesbians who are hospitalized. It is hard for me to believe [...]
A Chilling Thought About The “Health Care Reform” Law
Posted in America, Healthcare Reform, Politics, tagged America, Congress, Health Care Reform, Healthcare Reform, President Obama on April 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Times is reporting that the “health care reform” legislation includes a provision which bars members of Congress and their staffs from continuing to participate in the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program. A Congressional Research Service study of the new law reaches that conclusion — which is unfortunate for Members of Congress and [...]
Doubts About The In-And-Outers
Posted in America, Healthcare Reform, Politics, tagged America, Health Care Reform, Healthcare Reform, Insurance, Massachusetts, Massachusetts universal heatlh care, Politics, Pre-existing conditions on April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Massachusetts has its own version of “health care reform” legislation, which is similar in some ways to the federal “health care reform” legislation. For that reason, the current Massachusetts experience may be a precursor of what we could soon be facing on a national scale. Yesterday that Boston Globe ran an interesting article that should [...]
The Law Of Unintended Consequences
Posted in America, Healthcare Reform, Politics, tagged America, AT&T, Congress, Congressional hearings, Health Care Reform, Healthcare Reform, Politics on March 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A number of U.S. companies have modified their accounting statements to reflect increased liabilities that will be imposed on them as a result of the “health care reform” legislation. The latest (and largest) is AT&T, which is taking a $1 billion non-cash charge to its accounting statements for the first quarter of 2010. AT&T says [...]
A Test Of Representative Democracy
Posted in America, Healthcare Reform, Politics, tagged America, Congress, Health Care Reform, Healthcare Reform, Politics, Representative Democracy on March 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t posted anything about the actual passage, and now the signature into law, of the “health care reform” legislation. We are now learning about heretofore undiscussed provisions of the massive legislation — like the provision that requires disclosures of calories on the menus of restaurants, the provisions that exempt certain congressional staffers from certain [...]
Paying Attention And Participating
Posted in America, Healthcare Reform, Politics, tagged America, Civics, Congress, Health Care Reform, Healthcare Reform, Politics, Voting on March 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Richard’s post below reminded me of a point that I wanted to make before the whole health care debate effectively ends, supposedly with a vote on Sunday in the House of Representatives. Whether you support or oppose the “health care reform” legislation — and even a casual reader of the blog knows that Richard, UJ [...]
A Craven and Cowardly Congress
Posted in Healthcare Reform, Politics, tagged Congress, Health Care Reform, Healthcare Reform, Nancy Pelosi, Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, Politics, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, United States House of Representatives on March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Democrats in the House of Representatives apparently are carefully considering using various procedural machinations that would allow them to avoid casting a direct vote on the Senate version of the “health care reform” legislation. Instead, the approach under exploration would allow the Senate bill to be “deemed passed” if the House adopts a rule [...]
