Obamacare is forcing people off their current plans, and making them pay for plans with benefits they don’t need. Single men with no children on the way will be forced to pay for maternity care. How can that make health care more affordable? The Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner explains the whole ugly mess here. As […]
Boeing Union Bosses
Once again union leaders roll the dice hoping the NLRB will save them. The Wall Street Journal explains. Boeing’s eight-year contract offer included a 1% wage increase every other year starting in 2016 on top of annual cost-of-living increases. Pension accruals would be frozen, and traditional defined-benefit plans would be replaced with 401(k) accounts with […]
Obamacare Gone to the Dogs
Colorado’s health care exchange mistakenly signed up a man’s dog for coverage. FoxNews explains here. Fort Collins resident Shane Smith told KDVR he received a letter last week informing his dog,Baxter, that a health insurance account had been opened for the pup through Connect for Health Colorado. Smith told the station he had to sign […]
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Tax-Payer Funded Bailouts for Health Insurance Companies?
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) discusses a planned bailout for insurance companies here in The Wall Street Journal. Rubio correctly states that Americans shouldn’t be put on the hook for the administration’s failure to execute its own legislation. Under ObamaCare, abysmal enrollment numbers so far are a warning sign that this law will cost the American […]
The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth Series Two #4
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., has created one of the most vital books on the health of your family you will ever find, The 150 Healthiest Food on Earth. The lavishly illustrated, 358-page weighty tome gives you more vital information on foods that can keep your family healthy than any other publication I have ever come […]
The David Vitter/Harry Reid Obamacare Slugfest
Senator David Vitter (R-LA) explains how Sen. Harry Reid and President Obama are using illegal administrative carve outs to avoid the consequences of the Obamacare law they fought to pass. The law put in place provisions that would force all members of Congress onto the Obamacare exchanges, but the Reid/Obama team is giving them a […]
10 Budget-Cutting Suggestions
You can read here the 10 Budget-Cutting Suggestions for Paul Ryan and Patty Murray by Chris Edwards. Chris is the director of tax policy studies at Cato and editor of www.DownsizingGovernment.org. He is a top expert on federal and state tax and budget issues. Federal policymakers will have to make spending cuts sooner or later, and the sooner […]
Who’s Stealing Your Kid’s Lunch Money?
“We have seen meaningful progress in the labor market,” Federal Reserve Vice Chairwoman Janet Yellen said last week during her testimony. “What the [Fed] is looking for is signs that we will have growth that’s strong enough to promote continued progress.” That could be a while. Take a look at the special unemployment rate U-6—those […]
Leading Wisconsin Conservative Eric O’Keefe Wrongly Targeted
M.D. Kittle of the Wisconsin Reporter explains that Eric O’Keefe is under threat of arrest due to exposing the harsh tactics of the Democrat-led John Doe investigation of Wisconsin conservatives. That simple act of speech could land O’Keefe, director of conservative advocacy group Wisconsin Club for Growth, in jail. Under Wisconsin law, individuals who violate the state’s John […]