This is further proof that both Republicans and Democrats are, to put it kindly, totally ignorant of some of life's basic facts, and even common sense. Both sides want it to be compulsory for insurance companies to be forced to insure people with "pre-existing conditions." Think about that one, with ...read more

Dear Senator McCaskill: This is in response to remarks you made yesterday with respect to health care reform on Kansas City's Morning News with EJ & Ellen. First, here’s a bit of context for your consideration. ·    The United States does not have a unitary “health care system.” Instead, there are multiple providers ...read more

I’m calling YOU out, Mr. President. How dare you arrogantly assert that it’s your way or the highway? That Cook County – Chicago trick doesn’t work in the rest of our great country. You railed against what you called scare tactics and misinformation. Yet you then proceeded to misinform your audience ...read more

We went to the local Veteran’s Administration Hospital today. As I waited with my husband for his visit with the doctor, I considered that this may well be the new face of health care in the United States. On the surface, the VA is a wonderful institution, doing its very best ...read more

De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum Dicendum Est -- In a Pig's Ear. In the biggest display of maudlin excess since -- well, since "Jacko" died, but probably going back to the death of Elvis -- the hive started shrieking that the health disaster bill should be renamed "Kennedy Care" and passed ...read more

One of the banes of modern society is the generally despised bean counter. In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, let me tell you a story that actually happened. During the 1970s, I did quite a bit of business with an aerospace company that, for obvious reasons, will not ...read more

The government's initial step in attempting to create a government-run healthcare monopoly has been to propose a law that would eventually drive the private health insurance industry out of existence. Additional taxes and mandated costs are to be imposed on health insurance companies, while a government-run "health insurance" bureaucracy will ...read more

Social Security? Not Exactly The first public retirement pension scheme was created by Otto von Bismarck in 1880 Germany. Fifty years later, during the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt followed suit in the United States. As we’ve seen, the number of people expected to reach the retirement age of 65 was not ...read more

The expansion of health insurance and government entitlements created "free money" and thus the explosion of healthcare costs. The solution is simple and "impossible": we all pay cash. Here's why healthcare (a.k.a. sick-care) costs cannot be reduced; the entire system is based on vast pools of "free money." The corporate-America or ...read more

While we were in Vancouver last week, the dipsticks in Washington, District of Criminals did it again. They increased the Minimum Wage from $6.55 to $7.25 per hour. I don’t mean to preach to the choir, but there goes the remnant of what might otherwise have been the start of a ...read more