Category: Health and Fitness
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Oprah, Obama, and Outrage
The Moral Decline of Oprah Obama's '5 Percent' Con Job: So, while the president has been telling us that, under the vaunted grandfathering provision, all Americans who like their health-insurance plans will be able to keep them, “period,” his administration has been representing in federal court that most health plans would lose their “grandfather status”…
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Pelosi’s Orwellian Mendacity: A STFU Moment
This from Nancy Pelosi's website (emphasis added): The Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Obama in 2010, ensures that all Americans have access to quality, affordable health care and significantly reduces long-term health care costs. This historic legislation, in the league of Social Security and Medicare, will lead to healthier lives, while providing…
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When Obamacare Mugs a Liberal
The cases of Kirsten Powers and Lori Gottlieb. Liberals are characteristically enthusiastic about doing good with other people's money. But when young, healthy, middle-class liberals discover that the Obamacare redistribution scheme counts them as belonging to the 'other people' who will foot the bill, they become decidedly less enthusiastic. Related articles Obamacare's Elitist Conceit Is…
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On the Putative Right to Health Care
John e-mails and I comment in blue: I found your most recent post on a right to health care very interesting. It seems to me that much of the discussion of rights, not only about putative rights to health care, but about rights in general, depends on a certain controversial principle, namely: If…
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A Right to Health Care?
Food, shelter, and clothing are more important than health care in that one can get along for substantial periods of time without health care services but one cannot survive for long without food, shelter, and clothing. Given this plain fact, why don’t the proponents of ‘free’ universal health care demand ‘free’ food, shelter, and clothing?…
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Bill Clinton’s Health Care Blather
Jonathan Chait has Bubba's number: If you want to make sure every healthy person paying low rates in the individual market right now can keep their [sic] plan, then you have two choices. One is to abolish Obamacare altogether, which means making it impossible for people with preexisting conditions to get affordable insurance. Clinton doesn’t…
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Ten Lessons of ObamaCare
By Robert Tracinski. You really must read this. I am tempted to pull some quotations, but, as the saying goes, it's all good.
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But What if I Want a ‘Crappy’ Health Plan and by Which Standard is it ‘Crappy’?
For liberal scumbaggery and dumbassery, it is hard to beat Ed Schultz. This is the guy who called the sweet and loveable and ladylike Laura Ingraham a "right-wing slut." Now he is saying that the health plans that Obamacare will outlaw are 'crappy.' If so, there must be some one standard relative to which they…
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Dianne Feinstein: You Can Keep Your Health Plan Until the ObamaCare Bill is Enacted
The left-leaning Washington Post awarded President Obama four, count 'em, four pinocchios, its highest (dis)honor, for the repeatedly told lie for which he is now notorious. In one of its variations, it goes like this: “And if you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away…
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Health Care: A Liberty Issue
Too many conservative commentators are focusing on the inessential and the peripheral. Yes, Obama is a brazen liar, a bullshitter, and a consummate Orwellian abuser of the English language. He lied when he said that those who like their plans can keep their plans, and it is obvious why he lied: the ACA probably would…
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The ObamaCare Outrage is Upon Us
The Outrage Arrives The ObamaCare Awakening For all of the Affordable Care Act's technical problems, at least one part is working on schedule. The law is systematically dismantling the individual insurance market, as its architects intended from the start. The millions of Americans who are receiving termination notices because their current coverage does not conform…
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ObamaCare and its Many Mandates
Inform yourself.
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On the Label ‘Obamacare’
Some object to the popular 'Obamacare' label given that the official title of the law is 'Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act' or, as commonly truncated, 'Affordable Care Act.' But there is a good reason to favor the popular moniker: it is descriptive where the other two labels are evaluative, expressing as they do a…
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Addiction is not a Disease
If you happen to be in London on the evening of 21 November, you may be interested in this debate. (HT: Jeff Hodges) Related: Addicted to Food?
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Paleo or Low Fat?
Neither. I am told that the consumption of paleolithic vittles conduces to weight loss. Maybe it does. But I say unto you: What doth it profit a man to lose weight if he suffereth the clogging of his arteries? On the other hand, you are not going to take away my olive oil and nuts.…