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Category Archives: Economy
Wishful Thinking About Healthcare Costs
Liberals are counting on Obamacare to generate efficiencies that they believe will contain healthcare costs. One of the more celebrated initiatives is the adoption of electronic medical records, but hold on, the significant efficiencies expected from electronic record keeping might not be forthcoming after all. According … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged big government, electronic medical records, ezra klein, ObamaCare
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Demanding Collective Action
In his second inaugural speech, President Obama calls for “collective action” on the part of the American people, claiming that: For the American people can no more meet the demands of today’s world by acting alone than American soldiers could have … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged big government, central planning, collective action, inaugural speech, liberal mind, straw man
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Defragmenting Healthcare
Einer Elhauge, a healthcare expert at Harvard University, argues that we can lower healthcare costs and cut the deficit by “defragmenting” the system, by which he means replacing small group physician practices with large companies that combine hospitals and salaried physi-cians, similar to … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged budget deficit, healthcare costs, ObamaCare
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Misrepresenting Medicare
Liberals seem to be reading from the same broken script with respect to Medicare costs. First, Ruth Marcus and Ezra Klein claim that Medicare costs are “lower than those of private insur-ers” (here and here) and now Matthew Yglesias claims that every dollar the federal govern-ment … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged budget, current events, fiscal cliff, healthcare, liberals, Medicare, ObamaCare
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Medicare Eligibility Age
It’s always bizarre to see liberals like Matthew Yglesias ignore the historical evidence and argue that central government, with its central planning and price controls, will do a better job at managing the economy than a system organized around markets and competition. … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged big government, central planning, Matthew Yglesias, Medicare, ObamaCare, price controls, public option
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Spending Is The Problem
In his latest column, George Will cites to an article by economist, Jeffrey Dorfman, in which Dorfman refers to some interesting facts about the deficit. In the last year of the Clinton administration, which was the last time the budget was balanced, Dorfman points out … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged budget deficit, fiscal cliff, government spending, taxation, taxes
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Taxing Dividends
The Costco board of directors will borrow $3.5 billion so that the company can pay a significant dividend to shareholders in December, rather than next year, before the looming tax increase on dividend income. This isn’t unusual in itself because corporations need to … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged big government, current events, liberals, tax rates, taxation
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Klein Whine
Among the liberal propagandists who write for publications such as the Washington Post, Slate, and others, Ezra Klein has a soft spot in his heart for an Orwellian approach to language (i.e., distorting the meaning of words). And he’s not above … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged current events, ezra klein, fiscal cliff, liberals, politics, tax rates, tax reform, taxation
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Kiss Mammograms Good-Bye
Well, now that the election is over, the authoritarians (a/k/a liberals) can turn their full attention back to healthcare and resume the task of placing 315 million Americans under the thumb of the central government. Liberals are often seen as wanting to turn America into Europe, … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged big government, current events, healthcare, liberals, ObamaCare, price controls
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Raising The Retirement Age
One very reasonable suggestion to help reduce the eventual Social Security shortfall is to raise the retirement age by a year or two. But watch out, liberal propagandists are at work challenging this simple idea, as seen in the latest article on the topic … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged current events, ezra klein, liberals, politics, retirement age, social security
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