Category Archives: Health care

Don’t let the food police get away with these half-baked ideas

While we’ve all had a good laugh (at least I hope you did) at former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s decrees on 16-ounce sodas, calorie counts and trans fats, there are many other instances of the government’s irrational need to tell everyone else how to live and coerce them into compliance. Some more examples of government […]

Sex, binge drinking to sell Obamacare? How not to market insurance

It’s an old marketing maxim — sex sells. And since nothing else is helping Obamacare sell (fewer than 27,000 people have successfully signed up for health insurance through the dangerously insecure federal Obamacare website), supporters in Colorado have decided to give this notion a try. A raunchy ad campaign by ProgressNow Colorado and the Colorado […]

A tri-partisan shutdown solution: Obamacare for all

The Spite House has made some very cold and calculated decisions regarding the mere 17 percent of the government that is currently shut down, designed to inflict as much pain and injury against Americans of all political stripes as possible. But what kind of commander-in-chief denies elderly World War II veterans in wheelchairs access to a memorial, built […]