Showing posts with label health care reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health care reform. Show all posts
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Keith Hennessey's analysis of the uninsured
Keith Hennessey has an informative analysis of the true number of legal residents who are unable to obtain health insurance and are not eligible for existing government programs. It turns out the number is closer to 15 million than 50 million. It will surely help if we at least get the facts right.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
A simple plan.
I cribbed the title of this post from Jonah Goldberg, although it dates back at least to Jonathan Swift.
The Democrats are playing a semantic shell game with healthcare "reform." Various Democrat administrators and legislators , including President Obama, keep assuring us that their proposed legislation will do this and won't do that. Meanwhile, Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sibelius has the ultimate copout, insisting that "the bill" hasn't even been written yet.
What should we do? That's where the simple plan comes in. We won't know what's in the final legislation, if any, eventually passed by Congress. Of course, neither will most of the Senators or Congressman who vote on it. All we can do is absolutely insist that, whatever bill they pass, will apply equally to all federal employees, including the President and the rest of the executive branch and Senators and Congressmen and their staff.
Oklahoma Senator Coburn's Amendment #226 would require all members of Congress and their staff to enroll in the newly-required public health insurance plan. We should insist that any bill that is passed include this provision. For me, this is a deal breaker.
The Democrats are playing a semantic shell game with healthcare "reform." Various Democrat administrators and legislators , including President Obama, keep assuring us that their proposed legislation will do this and won't do that. Meanwhile, Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sibelius has the ultimate copout, insisting that "the bill" hasn't even been written yet.
What should we do? That's where the simple plan comes in. We won't know what's in the final legislation, if any, eventually passed by Congress. Of course, neither will most of the Senators or Congressman who vote on it. All we can do is absolutely insist that, whatever bill they pass, will apply equally to all federal employees, including the President and the rest of the executive branch and Senators and Congressmen and their staff.
Oklahoma Senator Coburn's Amendment #226 would require all members of Congress and their staff to enroll in the newly-required public health insurance plan. We should insist that any bill that is passed include this provision. For me, this is a deal breaker.
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