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Maggie's Farm —
An untrue story was going around about Polly-Jan Bobseine (photo above), but her real life story is plenty good enough.
National Health Preview: The Massachusetts debacle, coming soon to your neighborhood
Related: The Massachusetts anti-business debacle. If we do not nurture and cherish our productive profit-makers, we are lost.
Is there anything the Left doesn't want to control? Car color
Profile of denier Freeman ...
The 'Reality' of Universal Coverage
Hyscience —
... As an editorial yesterday in the WSJ explains, to learn what the universal coverage scheme the congressional democrats are trying to "foist on the rest of us" will do to our medical care, we need only look to a "perfect microcosm" of their plan - the universal-coverage scheme Massachusetts enacted in 2006. As it's turning out, the Massachusetts plan is proving to be instructive on what President Obama, Max Baucus, Ted Kennedy, Pete Stark, and the Democrat leadership are cooking up for everyone else: Higher taxes and government rationing: ...
Massachusetts Universal Healthcare System Breaking Down Already
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... And what has the state started doing to “fix” this latest problem? Price controls, a strategy that has never worked every time it has been tried. And they are considering price controls because costs are skyrocketing. ...
Massachusetts Universal Healthcare System Breaking Down Already
Stop The ACLU —
... causing the state to reduce its expenditures to its healthcare plan by $100 million. And guess who was hardest hit? The poorest residents, exactly the sort of people that universal healthcare is supposed to help. And what has the state started doing to “fix” this latest problem? Price controls , a strategy that has never worked every time it has been tried. And they are considering price controls because costs are skyrocketing. They’re trying to manage the huge costs of the subsidized middle-class insurance program that is gradually swallowing the state budget. The program ...
Explaining Obamacare Via Legos
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
Praise Mitt Romney. Three years ago, the former Massachusetts Governor had the inadvertent good sense to create the “universal” health-care program that the White House and Congress now want to inflict on the entire country. It is proving to be instructive, as Mr. Romney’s foresight previews what President Obama, Max Baucus, Ted Kennedy and Pete Stark are cooking up for everyone else.
— Wall Street Journal, March 27, 2009 ...
Mass. Wait Times
Classical Values —
Mass. Wait Times Can you believe that the Massachusetts health care "miracle" was cooked up by a Republican? Praise Mitt Romney. Three years ago, the former Massachusetts Governor had the inadvertent good sense to create the "universal" health-care program that the White House and Congress now want to inflict on the entire country. It is proving to be instructive, as Mr. Romney's foresight previews what President Obama, Max Baucus, Ted Kennedy and Pete Stark are cooking up for everyone else. In Massachusetts's latest crisis, Governor Deval Patrick and his Democratic ...
The Hounding of the Basketcases
Cold Fury —
... The program’s supporters are now looking to Washington for help. “We have a very limited capacity because of limited resources…” Obamacare would relieve a handful of northeastern states, including Maine, of the burden of funding their broken, heavily regulated and subsidized health-care systems while imposing new burdens on the South and Midwest in the form of expanded eligibility for Medicaid. Of course Snowe voted for this bill. It’s a bailout for Maine. Massachusetts , or The Heiress of Frankenheinz : Like gamblers doubling down on their losses, Democrats have already ...
The Laboratory of the States
Commonsense & Wonder —
... Washington for help. “We have a very limited capacity because of limited resources…” Obamacare would relieve a handful of northeastern states, including Maine, of the burden of funding their broken, heavily regulated and subsidized health-care systems while imposing new burdens on the South and Midwest in the form of expanded eligibility for Medicaid. Of course Snowe voted for this bill. It’s a bailout for Maine. Massachusetts, or The Heiress of Frankenheinz: Like gamblers doubling down on their ...
Mitt Romney's 2009
GOP 12 —
... He explains . Kathryn Jean Lopez also explains . He starts off November by slamming Obama's failure to make a decision on Afghanistan. Romney celebrates election wins, and hits Obama again on Afghanistan at the Reagan Ranch. His crusade against card check : Here , Here , Here , Here , Here , Here , His health care plan in MA: DC Examiner slams it. The Next Right slams it, WSJ slams it, Cato slams it, Philip Klein slams it, residents of MA ...
