Wesley J. Smith

Even without passage of Obamacare, we have a growing shortage of primary care physicians.  This means that it will be increasingly difficult for us to find a new doctor when we want one—a real problem in Canada, for example.  Making matters worse, the federal government caps . . . . Continue Reading »

A few years ago, Secondhand Smokette and I were in Europe.  We interacted with people who, it would be fair to say, are part of the intelligentsia and political ruling classes. They hated President Bush, which did not surprise us.  But the cause of their loathing did:  It wasn’t . . . . Continue Reading »

This puzzles me: If a main point of Obamacare is to control costs—the real point is raw power, but never mind—then taxing medical devices that are so integral to the delivery of health care makes no sense.  Yet, Obamacare imposes an excise tax on medical device . . . . Continue Reading »

Let’s see: Nancy Pelosi has an 11% approval rating, and Harry Reid a whopping 9%.  It’s not a coincidence that they are the prime architects of Obamacare.  But the president isn’t faring so well, either. He got a small bump in all the media cheer leading, but his approval . . . . Continue Reading »

Kathleen Parker ably exposes the mendacity and between-the-lines legislating that opens the door to public funding of abortion in Obamacare.  From her Washington Post column:Of course the bill doesn’t explicitly state that it appropriates abortion funding. [Me: That will be done in the . . . . Continue Reading »

When Medicare Part D passed, the government gave private companies subsidies to induce them to keep retirees on private health care that covered prescriptions, toward the end of saving Medicare money by keeping those people off the prescription drug benefit rolls.  Obamacare reduced these . . . . Continue Reading »

For now, I think the fever is banking, and global warming hysteria is abating.  This is not to say, of course, that the scientific debate over global warming is settled.  To the contrary: With skeptics finally having a voice in the argument, it will grow even more intense.  But that . . . . Continue Reading »

The fat lady hasn’t sung.  A large majority of the people want opponents of Obamacare to keep fighting it, according to a CBS poll.  From the story:A CBS News poll released Wednesday finds that nearly two in three Americans want Republicans in Congress to continue to challenge parts . . . . Continue Reading »

President Obama is spending this country into a state of financial collapse akin to Greece—or worse, California.  And yet, when a little more money could have helped ease our growing doctor shortage, Obamacare failed to provide the fix.Here’s the story: Back in 1996, in a truly . . . . Continue Reading »

I wrote a quick piece in the wake of Obamacare’s passage for To The Source, in which I predicted dire developments.  From my article:For now, Obamacare preserves a private financing system—no public option. Nonetheless, it still represents a government takeover of healthcare. By . . . . Continue Reading »