Tonight, Let Us Assume the Worst

Tonight, let us assume the worst. Let us assume that the Supreme Court will uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Law in full. Let us assume that we will be forced to walk the gauntlet of vulgar ridicule, all the way from the honking geese at MSNBC to the pompous main stream media to gloating...

The Third Stage of Grief is Bargaining

According to a famous and enduring formulation on Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, grief proceeds through five stages: Denial, Rage, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. In addition to and perhaps as much as in its application to dying, the scheme has found great utility in describing the...

The Third Stage of Grief is Bargaining

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According to a famous and enduring formulation on Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, grief proceeds through five stages: Denial, Rage, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. In addition to and perhaps as much as in its application to dying, the scheme has found great utility in describing the...

With Obamacare, “Conscience” is so 1%

Rob Eno of RedMass Group has a great post on the recently introduced Blunt amendment, which constitutes a “conscience clause”  to prohibit the federal government from forcing a religious institution to provide healthcare services (such as the morning after pill) that violate it’s moral...

Obamacare and the Ratchet Theory of History

I published a piece in the American Thinker a few weeks ago:   There are a lot of things that Americans fear about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  They fear that they won’t be able to continue to go to the doctor whom they trust.  They fear that once a single consumer —...

Managed Care or Fee for Service?

My father always told me when I was young that you should never pay good money for a piece of paper. Whenever he would purchase a product or see a product advertised that came with a guarantee that you had to pay extra for, his opinion was that if the item wasn’t worthwhile or the manufacturer or...