Will There Be Any Fireworks to See at This Year’s NEA Representative Assembly?

by Eddie | 10:17 am, July 1, 2011

Believe it or not, July is here and the Independence Day weekend is practically upon us. You know what that means. Lots of red, white and blue; cookouts; parades; and, of course, fireworks. But probably not the kind of fireworks you’re thinking of.
One thing about fireworks is how they can provide a moment of [...]

Guilt and innocence and Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the rest of us.

by David K Williams Jr | 10:04 am, July 1, 2011

David K. Williams, Jr.The rape case against French politician and former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is running into problems. He was released from house arrest earlier today. (See The New York Times’ article “Stra…

Guilt and innocence and Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the rest of us.

by David K Williams Jr | 10:04 am, July 1, 2011

David K. Williams, Jr.The rape case against French politician and former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is running into problems. He was released from house arrest earlier today. (See The New York Times’ article “Stra…

Guilt and innocence and Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the rest of us.

by David K Williams Jr | 10:04 am, July 1, 2011

David K. Williams, Jr.The rape case against French politician and former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is running into problems. He was released from house arrest earlier today. (See The New York Times’ article “Stra…

Guilt and innocence and Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the rest of us.

by David K Williams Jr | 10:04 am, July 1, 2011

David K. Williams, Jr.The rape case against French politician and former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is running into problems. He was released from house arrest earlier today. (See The New York Times’ article “Stra…

Jonah Goldberg: Corporate jets and tax breaks

by Rossputin | 9:07 am, July 1, 2011

The always excellent Jonah Goldberg perfectly describes Obama’s reprehensible and self-contradictory class warfare politics:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/07/01/corporate_jets_and_tax_breaks__110438.html

It’s enough to make you think, if you didn’t think it already, that Obama really is “kind of a dick“.

Insurance is not access

by Rossputin | 5:15 am, July 1, 2011

In my article for the American Spectator yesterday, I mentioned two New York Times’ articles, one which exposed the Obama Administration’s “mystery shopper” scheme regarding doctor’s appointments and another when the Administration deep-sixed the plan following outcry by doctors and others.

In the second article, the Times stumbled upon another fact – one which I doubt they actually understand the implications of – when they reported that “Having coverage is not the same as having ready access to care.” This is true in the sense in which they meant it, namely that just because you have insurance (or medical welfare like Medicaid) doesn’t mean you can easily get to see a doctor.

But it’s also true in the converse: Not having coverage is not the same as not having ready access to care. Indeed, self-insured Americans (probably a majority of the “uninsured”, though such data is all but impossible to find) who simply pay their medical bills directly have excellent access to health care. Have you ever heard of a doctor turning down a patient whom they knew would not only pay, but likely pay quickly? Having insurance can easily be a hindrance to getting quick access to health care these days.

No matter which way you approach it, Obamacare’s claimed benefit of increasing health care access by putting the nation on a health care form of welfare is belied by what’s happening in the real world.

President Obama, like Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter, basically wants “Medicare for all”. But the actions of private doctors make plain that the closer we get to that progressive utopia, the more people we will have without access to decent health care. Canada, England, and even Massachusetts are proving that to us every day, yet liberals seem intent on driving our nation’s health care system into the brick wall of socialism.

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