I will be interested to see how many people (the pro-Obamacare community) get up in arms over this decision. I mean, heck, the Fourth circuit court is already in opposition. Â What decision? Â Well, the US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit...
A good friend posted an article on Facebook that purports to explain why the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) scares the Republicans. The article posits that the GOP is scared, because ACA will work, and people will realize that they can now...
Perhaps you have seen the Prudential advertisement that shows people placing dots on a chart showing the oldest person they know. Â Prudential uses this, in comparison to the line drawn on the chart with the retirement age, to show a...
I have been talking to a few people lately about being prepared for the potential of the “solar kill shot.” Â The short version of this is that the sun is slowly waking from a long slumber and our reliance on...
In the last post I wrote about the perversions of incentives that cause the problems in the health care system. Â Let me point out that it’s not that we are behaving irrationally. Â We are behaving completely rationally–given the situation we...
Okay, here’s another problem, since spend way too much time talking about the mandate… let’s talk basic economics. The whole initiative is predicated on a few arguments: Costs (prices) are too high. Insurance companies are “making too much money” Millions...
Let the experiment begin. I am not alone in my expectation that the Health Care (insurance) reform will not improve Health Care (it won’t make bad doctors good ones, for instance) and it won’t improve access since lower prices have...
CV THON was a great success, raising $61,792.02 For The Kids and the Four Diamonds Fund. As is the tradition at THONs the kids at CV put together their line-dance, combining their message, with a summary of their school year,...
As I write this Cumberland Valley High school’s THON starts in a little less than 3 hours. For the next 15+ hours hundreds of High School kids, teachers, administrators and adult volunteers will me dancing the night away, and continuing...
We have been bracing here on the North-Eastern seaboard of the United States for what some have taken to labeling the “Snowicane” that is coming which some said would make our previous Snowmageddon pale in comparison. The true “blizzard of...