Comments on: ObamaCare nails its first “villain”

By: Finding Ponies...

Finding Ponies... — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:57:37 +0000

Unintentional TIMING…

I realized today that Fister and I might need to refine or add a point in our strategy class. There are unintended consequences, and then there are consequences that are intended to be hidden from sight until it’s too late for everyone else to do…

By: Wanderlust

Wanderlust — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:56:03 +0000

This is a feature, not a bug. Obambi and the Left goose the markets by intervening to pick winners and losers, thus ensuring that the small players (entrepreneurial) fall away and the few remaining players are giants (“too big to fail”) who continue piling mountains of ca$h onto their elected leaders via lobbyists.

The end result of all this mess (automotive, medical and energy markets intervention/control by Uncle Sam) will be that the few remaining large corporations are continually extorted and plundered by the Dems while “protected” from the threat of competition by startup firms.

USA, meet “Eurosclerosis”. It’s our future.

By: BillCarson

BillCarson — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:54:10 +0000

Why feel sorry for the American people? They gave virtually dictatorial power to the Democrats and we’re supposed to be shocked!, shocked! that the Democrats would move us into socialism as fast as they could? It’s time to pay for that error.

By: Alana

Alana — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:31:13 +0000

The whole point is to drive these guys out of business and insert a government institution in its place. The business of America is now… government, and lots of it.

WitchDoctor on June 8, 2010 at 2:24 PM

Exactly. Have I mentioned today that I hate these people?

By: TeresainFortWorth

TeresainFortWorth — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:27:52 +0000

….calls into question whether the Democrats’ health care plan was about achieving an ideological goal or about finding a sensible solution to rising health care costs.

LFRGary on June 8, 2010 at 3:23 PM

Some may think they are evil (some are); some may think they are incompetent (most are); but ultimately, they all cared more about the IDEA of universal health care, and how good it sounded, and how caring they were going to appear to the American public.

That’s it. That’s all they cared about. They didn’t have a clue what they were doing, or how they were going to do it. That’s what we have to pound into peoples’ heads for the next 2 1/2 years:

“These people don’t know what they are doing…..”

By: Dr. ZhivBlago

Dr. ZhivBlago — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:12:44 +0000

If the Republicans are the “party of ‘no’” then the Democrats must be the party of “out of business”.

By: tom

tom — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:04:10 +0000

At first, I read that as, “ObamaCare nails its first victim.”

Turns out, it makes just as much sense that way.

By: jbh45

jbh45 — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:02:23 +0000

daddy, did you fire anyone today?

By: bloviator

bloviator — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:56:27 +0000

ObammyCare: Bad for your health, bad for employment and bad for investors.

An Obama trifecta.

By: Vince

Vince — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:43:52 +0000

Well, you know that liberals and moderates fail miserably when asked 5th grade questions on Econ 101.

By: BobMbx

BobMbx — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:43:08 +0000

Nostrolitus calls for hearings on leg-rustling insurance company who plans to layoff 50 employees and deprive thousands more of their right to healthcare.

“Time to kick some ass in the insurance industry”

By: BobMbx

BobMbx — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:40:16 +0000

“If you like your current plan…”

Oh wait…

JusDreamin on June 8, 2010 at 3:16 PM

“Thats a real nice health insurance plan you’ve got there….be a shame if something bad happened to it”

By: BobMbx

BobMbx — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:38:52 +0000

Today, we are are federal employees.

Get back to work.

By: Mirimichi

Mirimichi — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:29:00 +0000

We’ve got to get this repealed.

By: Bruno Strozek

Bruno Strozek — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:24:07 +0000

Don’t forget the 50 people whose jobs were deleted or destroyed by nHealth calling it quits. They should at least count against the saved & created.

DailyDanet on June 8, 2010 at 3:19 PM

Hater.

By: LFRGary

LFRGary — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:23:16 +0000

I wrote in this post that the government's idea of a solution is by dumping more people into Medicaid, a program who's costs are spiralling out of control. Compared with how HSAs have bent the cost curve down for a number of years calls into question whether the Democrats' health care plan was about achieving an ideological goal or about finding a sensible solution to rising health care costs.

By: DailyDanet

DailyDanet — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:19:28 +0000

Don’t forget the 50 people whose jobs were deleted or destroyed by nHealth calling it quits. They should at least count against the saved & created.

By: JusDreamin

JusDreamin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:16:19 +0000

“If you like your current plan…”

Oh wait…

By: journeyintothewhirlwind

journeyintothewhirlwind — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:15:12 +0000

Just A Grunt on June 8, 2010 at 2:48 PM

Where does one go to see these new rules and regs if one isn’t in the healthcare field?

By: Greek Fire

Greek Fire — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:09:27 +0000

Good, solid B+

By: Cicero43

Cicero43 — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:59:57 +0000

The Zero Regime: Kicking Consumers’ Asses Since 2009

By: Lily

Lily — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:57:52 +0000

I am not seeing a lot of gratitude on this thread.

By: phillypolitics

phillypolitics — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:57:40 +0000

I run a small business in Philly, and we had an HSA health program for the past three years which worked really well. However, when it came time to renew this year the rates had gone up nearly 40% and we had to switch back to a PPO type product.

I’m afraid HSAs are headed for extinction.

By: d1carter

d1carter — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:56:51 +0000

His plan is working!

By: notropis

notropis — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:55:36 +0000

whether health reform can be held responsible for the continuing woes of an already struggling system

I thought the whole point of “health reform” (“health reform?” Not even “health care reform?” Or “health insurance reform?”) was to fix the system. Now, apparently, it’s enough that it might possibly not be responsible for making it worse in this instance.