I am beginning to think that President Obama hasn’t a clue about how the health care system works. The other day, he said that a foot amputation costs $30,000-$40,000-$50,000.” That seemed high to me, so I went to the New York State Medicaid site and looked up the surgical fee . . . . Continue Reading »
The more President Obama speaks off the cuff in the Great Health Care Debate, the less he seems to know. Recently, President Obama contended that surgeons are paid “$30,000, $40,000, $50,000” to amputate a foot. (Hit YouTube clip, above.) But, that doesn’t seem to be true. I . . . . Continue Reading »
This is unbelievably rude: Representative Shirley Jackson Lee talks on her cell phone during a town hall meeting on health care. Why would we think they care less about our . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve been trying my hand at aphorisms. It seems like a pencil twirling, stare out the window, August thing to do. Here’s one. A rich irony: diversity is the slogan used by progressives to avoid talking to people they disagree with. . . . . Continue Reading »
This is the strangest thing I’ve seen all day.Well, that’s not strictly true. But it’s true enough for our purposes. The thing is, I need to think of a religious reason for you to want it. Uh . . . you . . . want to make some kind of point about creationism and evolution? See no . . . . Continue Reading »
Matt Mabe graduated from West Point in 2002 and served two tours in Iraq. In 2007 he decided to go into journalism, left active service, and headed off to the Columbia School of Journalism. He tells us what he encountered at CSJ in the Columbia Journalism Review : Columbia was a fresh start. no . . . . Continue Reading »
I have repeatedly stated that the “end of life” counseling controversy could be put to rest if only the bill were amended to make it clear that any counseling is voluntary—both as to physician and patient—and to ensure that the counseling would not be outcome directed, that . . . . Continue Reading »
A recent Gallup Poll found that only 20% of seniors think that Obamacare will improve their health situations. From the story:“We are not talking about cutting Medicare benefits,” Obama said, trying to assuage the audience. But Obama is talking about finding hundreds of billions in . . . . Continue Reading »
Prof. Dr. Felix Koerner, S.J., has fraternal advice for Muslims beset by Christian missionaries: don’t overreact, but develop your own consciousness as Muslims in order to respond to them. An invitation to go over to the other side, he added, really is a stimulus to refresh one’s own . . . . Continue Reading »
You would have thought that our betters among the Davos crowd would have noticed by now that their increasingly shrill and hysterical advocacy to “save the plane”t has lost its power to panic us about global warming. There is certainly some scientific evidence for a warming . . . . Continue Reading »
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