According to the New Mexico Independent, a “quirk” in the Federal Health Care Monstrosity of 2010 will mean higher premiums for thousands of New Mexicans. Why? It’s complicated. My eyes started to glaze over the first time I read the story and I had to backtrack several times to figure out exactly what was going [...]
Used to be when people got mad, they might give you the finger. Apparently, that’s old hat, and now they take the finger instead, in this case, biting it off: California authorities say a clash between opponents and supporters of health care reform ended with one man biting off another man’s finger. When I read [...]
A Facebook friend posted the link to this article, and because my friend leans leftward, and the piece is in the Atlantic, and ran six pages, and is entitled “How American Health Care Killed My Father” (here we go with a diatribe about the evils of health care being a commodity not a right, I [...]
Today, Mon. Aug 17 at 7:00 p.m. Northern New Mexico’s Congressman, Ben Ray Luján, is holding a healthcare town hall at the Unitarian Church at 107 W. Barcelona Rd. It will feature a panel discussion with health care professionals — no doubt cherrypicked by Mr. Luján so that they will all say health care reform [...]
My New Mexico Independent column is up. Update: This is rich. And they accuse us of astroturfing. I guess it’s that old “plank in my own eye” thing. HT: Patterico.
OH Mommy is the moniker of Pauline Karwowski, author of the blog Classy Chaos. She’s listed on my friend MIT Mommy‘s blogroll, and I stop by periodically for a dose of something light and entertaining when I’ve had enough for the moment of politics. OH Mommy never writes about politics, or at least not that [...]
My NMI column this week isi a response to last week’s piece on socialized medicine, which generated over 100 comments, breaking the NMI record. The comment war on today’s column has already begun.
My editor at NMI tells me I’ve broken their record for comments — 100 so far on my health care column. Many of these, naturally, are from leftists insulting me, telling me I have no idea what I’m talking about, that there are no facts or evidence in the column (um, it’s an opinion piece, [...]
This week’s NM Independent column. It’s already been up long enough for teenage commenters to begin calling me ignorant.