Archive for Health Legislation
Blog-Steal: Krugman’s Kollapsing Klaims about Healthcare.gov
[UPDATE below.] I don’t normally like to just copy and paste somebody else’s blog post, but Chris Rossini at EPJ penned a work of brilliance. I had read all of these Krugman posts, but didn’t think to lay them out this way: I’m proud to announce that Truth and Paul Krugman have crashed into one […]
Read moreNancy Pelosi Doesn’t Think She Said Anything Wrong About Keeping Health Plans
This is ridiculous. She sounds like Homer saying, “Now Bart, let’s not dwell on who forgot to pick up whom from school…”
Read moreChris Koresko Wins the Internet on ObamaCare/Katrina Comparison
David R. Henderson, like me, was surprised to see Matt Yglesias suggest that the failure of ObamaCare would result in zero deaths. (In contrast, Yglesias argued, President Bush’s failure under Katrina did result in deaths.) But look at Chris Koresko’s take on the ObamaCare/Katrina analogy: Actually the whole Bush/Katrina Obama/ACA comparison looks pretty shaky. If […]
Read moreWhat Did Yglesias Know About Health Insurance Cancellations, And When Did He Know It?
I’m still trying to find a mea culpa where Yglesias discusses his off-the-mark predictions about how great the ObamaCare rollout would be. Nothing yet, but in the meantime I ran across this: “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.” That was the promise Barack Obama made to insured Americans when stumping for […]
Read moreYglesias: Health Insurance Doesn’t Have Anything to Do With People Living or Dying
I have been trying to find out how Matt Yglesias dealt with his hilarious and confident predictions about the rollout of ObamaCare, such as this one from May 24, 2013: You heard it here first from me in April, but I want to reiterate that over the next 18 months you’re going to read a […]
Read moreMy Canceled Health Insurance “Plan” Was Probably “Junk,” So No Biggie
[UPDATE below.] Remember how I had the selfishness to be upset that my health insurance plan was rendered illegal by ObamaCare? Well Jamelle Bouie at The Daily Beast explains to me why it’s not a big deal: Indeed, one reason not to jump on the GOP train of “solutions” to Obamacare’s current woes…is that the […]
Read moreMIT’s Gruber on ObamaCare
[UPDATE below.] I am not being dramatic for purposes of blog excitement: It didn’t really hit me just how awful ObamaCare was going to be, until I read this interview with the chief intellectual architect behind it, MIT’s Jon Gruber. (HT2 MR) My understanding is that Gruber:ObamaCare::Krugman:ObamaStimulus. (If anyone thinks that’s a bad analogy, please […]
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