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In the News: Blog 04/21/2014
'Covered' is not the same as 'getting healed'
The die-hard backers of Obamacare insist the Affordable Care Act is a success because more than a million people signed up for insurance coverage who didn’t previously have health insurance. A story from the New York Post reminds us that being covered by insurance isn’t the same as receiving health care, however. Margaret Figueroa, 49, was forced off the insurance plan she chose by Obamacare regulations. She found new coverage on New York’s state-run Obamacare exchange. She was assured it covered her doctors and medications. She found out otherwise at the pharmacy. “When she went to order medication, the pharmacists said her name wasn’t in the system. And she said her doctors were not included in her new medical plan. “ ‘They just don’t have enough doctors. Two of them are full to capacity, and the others aren’t even in my radius. There are some who don’t even speak English,’ the Arden Heights resident said.”
In the News: Blog 04/18/2014
How will you pay your family's $15,000 in regulatory costs?
It isn’t just that the federal government has lots of regulations – and it does; the Code of Federal Regulation takes up more than 20 feet of shelf space – but that the government keeps producing more. The Wall Street Journal points out just how much reading Americans must keep up on if they don’t want to violate the law: “Washington set a new record in 2013 by issuing final rules consuming 26,417 pages in the Federal Register. While plenty of government employees deserve credit for this milestone, leadership matters. And by this measure President Obama has never been surpassed in the Oval Office.”
In the News: Blog 04/17/2014
What I think about many issues
In the News: Blog 04/11/2014
New face, same stinking mess
In the News: Blog 04/11/2014
Conservatives unite behind my Obamacare lawsuit
In the News: Blog 04/10/2014
You lost your doctor for this miserable result
In the News: Blog 04/10/2014
The myth of 77 cents
It’s been illegal to pay women less than men with comparable experience working the same job ever since the Equal Pay Act of 1963. You wouldn’t know that from the way Democrats are pushing a bill they call the “Paycheck Fairness Act.” It’s a cynical exercise in political posturing that would result in downward pressure on wages for all Americans. The bill’s supporters cite a statistic to prove that pay discrimination still exists: They say women earn 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. The problem is that the statistic is misleading: It compares pay for all men and all women working in all jobs. Economists Mark Perry and Andrew Biggs take apart the myth in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal. For one thing: “Men were almost twice as likely as women to work more than 40 hours a week, and women almost twice as likely to work only 35 to 39 hours per week. Once that is taken into consideration, the pay gap begins to shrink. Women who worked a 40-hour week earned 88% of male earnings.”
In the News: Blog 04/9/2014
When a president acts illegally, we must take legal action
In the News: Blog 04/8/2014
Those dangerous ideas like liberty
In the News: Blog 04/7/2014
Newspapers are free — why not you?
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