Showing posts with label socialism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label socialism. Show all posts

ObamaCare's Failure Is Not Just A Technology Problem

by Doug Reich.       The rollout of Obamacare has been an unmitigated disaster. From a website that doesn’t work to skyrocketing premiums, Americans are finding out “what’s in it.” The administration and its lackeys have now begun characterizing the problems as due to nothing more than technical problems or so called “glitches” that will be  ... MORE

Gary Jason: Young Frogs Hop To New Ponds

A recent story concerning the French youth is fascinating.   It reports that a poll conducted by the leftist newspaper Le Monde shows that the French are not happy with their socialist government.  Seventy percent now believe that taxes are too high, and 80% hold that President Hollande's economic policies are on the wrong track.  And 54%   ... MORE

Ira Stoll: The ObamaCare Disaster Has Arrived

Get ready for much worse.     For a sense of where the health care policy debate in America is headed, look no further than Massachusetts, where Romneycare was a state-run demonstration project for Obamacare. Here, activists with ties to the Massachusetts State Nurses Association are organizing to place a question on the 2014        ... MORE

Dr. Ben Carson: ObamaCare Is Worst Thing Since Slavery

Vladimir Lenin would have liked Obama.         Dr. Ben Carson slammed President Barack Obama’s signature health care during his speech at the Value Voter’s Summit Friday. “Obamacare is really, I think, the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery,” Carson declared. “It is slavery in a way because it is making all of us     ... MORE

L. Brent Bozell: The Ministry Of Confusion

Observations on official tail-chasing.       I can think of one reason to end the federal shutdown: There are a lot of stupid people now roaming the streets. The Feds, however, do not have a monopoly on idiocy. Bureaucratic bumbling can be found wherever there's large government, even on the state, and yes, on the county level.  ... MORE

Stella Morabito: The Dynamics Of Tyranny

I am he as you are he and you are me and ...       Before George Orwell wrote 1984, there was Yevgeny Zamyatin's We. If you're not acquainted with Zamyatin's novel, you will find it an extraordinary study on the dynamics of tyranny. Zamyatin, a Russian, wrote We around 1921. It was immediately banned by the Soviet censorship board, but   ... MORE

Reid: Obamacare Just A Step Towards Single-Payer System

by Mark Tapscott.      Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said Friday that  Obamacare isn't the final word in government health care reform, it's just a big step toward the real solution, which is a single-payer system. The Las Vegas Sun reports that Reid made that statement during an appearance on a Nevada PBS news discussion program:       ... MORE

Folks Use 'Incompetent' And 'Liar' To Describe Obama

Jennifer Harper on Pew Research findings.     One gauge of a president’s favorability is the assorted descriptors the public volunteers to a pollster about the leader of the Free World. The Pew Research Center has tracked the assorted description of President Obama over the years, and has this to say: “The survey finds that the one-word       ... MORE

Jonah Goldberg: The Unfolding Revolution

Freedom, not statism, is progress.   ‘Why are there no libertarian countries?” In a much-discussed essay for Salon, Michael Lind asks: “If libertarians are correct in claiming that they understand how best to organize a modern society, how is it that not a single country in the world in the early twenty-first century is organized along       ... MORE

Rituparna Basu: How ObamaCare Fleeces The Young

Paying higher rates to subsidize the old. Starting next year, the Affordable Care Act will limit how much health insurance premiums can vary based on age. Health insurers will be restricted to charging older people no more than three times higher premiums than they charge younger people. This is bad news for the young. It's a fact that     ... MORE

Social Justice: A Solution In Search Of A Problem

by John Steele Gordon.  The left has always had a knack for the high-sounding phrase, such as New Deal, Great Society, etc.  One that is increasingly in vogue these days is Social Justice.  It sounds noble—everyone’s in favor of justice, right?—but when you look closely, it’s nothing more than the old redistribution of income in the name  ... MORE

Tibor R. Machan: Welfare Rights Are Wrong

Turning free agents into serfs.  Ever since John Locke developed the theory of natural individual human rights, there has been an ongoing attempt to change his idea to something very different. For Locke the natural rights all human beings have are basically prohibitions. They forbid people from intruding on other people–from killing, assaulting,   ... MORE

Medical Marijuana Opposition Supports Socialized Medicine

by Amesh Adalja.  In England, heroin—a potent pain-killer—is available for use by healthcare providers. But in the U.S., the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) classifies it as a schedule I  drug which legally stipulates that it has no clinical use. Marijuana is another Schedule 1 substance that, according to the DEA, has no clinical use.        ... MORE