Comments on: Yet Another Failure from ObamaCare

By: Jan Peter Ozga

Jan Peter Ozga — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:59:55 +0000

Greg: I continue to be both informed and entertained by your revelations. They should be must reading for policy makers and all health care stakeholders.
I repeat my recommendations to collect and boil down your myth busters and submit them to the Washington Post for insertion into its Sunday Outlook section. The fuller essays could comprise a book called
“Health Care Myths — Lessons Learned from Obamacare and Other Government Programs,”
co-authored by those defenders of liberty and freedom:

Greg “Father of Consumer Choice” Scandlen
and
John “Father of HSAs” Goodman

Happy New Year!

By: frank timmins

frank timmins — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:13:53 +0000

Richard, I was thinking the same thing, especially in Ohio and Pennsylvania (key 2012 election states). Perhaps Obama will present a bill to add a little sweetener to the retirement funds at an “appropriate time” this summer.

Cy, so you think giveaway programs are successful when the takers outrun the funders? That’s an interesting bit of logic, but then after reading your last sentence I better understand the dysfunction.

By: Greg Scandlen

Greg Scandlen — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:13:03 +0000

Hey, Cy,
Yes, I would call it a failure if I have a food budget that is supposed to last 12 months and I spend it all in three months. That would mean my family starves for 9 months. Liberals might think that is a success, but they don’t know much about budgets, do they?

I grant you that giving away free money will always be popular, and giving away someone else’s money will be fun for both the giver and the receiver. Maybe not so much fun for the people they take it from.

But we can all be thankful that we are taxing working people to give money to Boeing, Alcoa, Kraft Foods and Miller Brewing.

By: cy wood

cy wood — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:50:16 +0000

A program is so popular it runs out of money, so that makes it a failure? By your reasoning, every time someone files for bankruptcy, they have succeeded. It’s intriguing that you harp about governments and unions getting money, when it seems like most of the funds went to corporations. But I suspect the people who agree with you on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act don’t bother with facts. They just nod sagely at specious rants.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:43:39 +0000

Don’t be surprised if in some other bill, someone sneaks in a few billion to keep the program going. This is the kind of ‘spending’ that is never the headline for a bill and flies below the radar because the lobbyiests don’t care who else is getting what as long as they get what they wanted. And the above list of recipients tells you who will be lobbying FOR the extension…

By: Mustafa

Mustafa — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:28:55 +0000

More evidence that Obamacare = Epic Fail.

By: Buster

Buster — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:55:59 +0000

It is a commonly known fact that our health deteriorate with age. We all want the benefits of medical science to treat our medical problems. But there is a persistent aversion to making people take responsibility for their own medical needs.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:33:43 +0000

It seems neo-corporatist, but that might not be the right word to describe it.

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:30:17 +0000

This is what they call crony capitalism.