THE NEW YORK TIMES, Health Plan Cost for New Yorkers Set to Fall 50%: State officials estimate as many as 615,000 individuals will buy health insurance on their own in the first few years the federal health law is in effect.
My guess is that their estimate is at least a factor of 10 too high. And the cost a factor of 2 too low.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
NEWT GINGRICH: After ObamaCare.
President Obama's decision to postpone the employer mandate has opened the floodgates of hostility to the individual mandate.So just ignore him, and in three more years, our national nightmare will be over.
A recent poll indicates only 12% (one out of every eight Americans) favor implementing the individual mandate next year.
In a free society laws cannot be imposed on an unwilling country by 12% of the people.
In that simple fact lies the beginning of the end of Obamacare.
FLAT TAX? FAIR TAX? SALES TAX? VALUE-ADDED TAX? No, let's go back to the excise tax.
It's a novel idea that bears looking at.
It's a novel idea that bears looking at.
NO RACISM HERE: Black Man With Pistol Permit Shoots White Teen, Is Acquitted. Move along, now. Nothing to see....
SKIP THE AMNESTY: a doorway without a wall cannot stand. Get control of immigration first; then let's discuss amnesty.
OF COURSE they're going to ban fireplaces, fire pits, and back-yard barbeques in private homes too. Aren't they?
THE WASHINGTON POST'S Eugene Robinson: racist in his own mind. Despite not a scintilla of evidence, Robinson declares that George Zimmerman was racist, and the jury verdict unjust:
Why should they have? As the trial proved, the killing was a clear case of self-defense.
National outcry? By whom? The only voices I heard were the race mongers. Evidence was 'found'? Found? More like created from whole cloth.
Okay, let's take these one at a time. 'Jurors knew.' No, that's what they were told by the prosecution.
A 'would-be cop'. Aspiring to be a police officer is a bad thing?
A 'self-appointed guardian of the neighborhood'. Hardly; he was a member of the local Neighborhood Watch, a program originally started by the police way back in 1972 (before Robinson's time, obviously). Due to my advanced age, obviously, I can remember back when every parent in a neighborhood was a 'self-appointed guardian of the neighborhood'.
Who 'carried a loaded gun'. For those of us who do choose to carry, yes, it is loaded. And Zimmerman was fully authorized to do so.
He 'profiled Martin'. It's profiling to report someone who is acting suspiciously? OMG ... better tell Homeland Security.
He 'stalked Martin despite the advice of a 911 operator'. Not according to the trial transcript, which, assuming he can read, Robinson should have read.
The 'stalking led to a confrontation'. And according to the trial transcript, it was Martin who confronted Zimmerman, not conversely.
Zimmerman 'fatally shot Martin'. That's the first factual statement Robinson made; but just to add a few additional facts, the shooting occurred only after Zimmerman was attacked, was being beaten, and in fear of his own life.
Eugene Robinson is the racist bigot; not George Zimmerman.
When Sanford, Fla., police arrived on the scene, they encountered a grown man who acknowledged killing an unarmed 17-year-old boy. They did not arrest the man or test him for drug or alcohol use. They conducted a less-than-energetic search for forensic evidence. They hardly bothered to look for witnesses.
Why should they have? As the trial proved, the killing was a clear case of self-defense.
Only a national outcry forced authorities to investigate the killing seriously. Even after six weeks, evidence was found to justify arresting Zimmerman, charging him with second-degree murder and putting him on trial.
National outcry? By whom? The only voices I heard were the race mongers. Evidence was 'found'? Found? More like created from whole cloth.
Jurors knew that Zimmerman was an overeager would-be cop, a self-appointed guardian of the neighborhood who carried a loaded gun. They were told that he profiled Martin — young, black, hooded sweatshirt — as a criminal. They heard that he stalked Martin despite the advice of a 911 operator; that the stalking led to a confrontation; and that, in the confrontation, Zimmerman fatally shot Martin in the chest.
Okay, let's take these one at a time. 'Jurors knew.' No, that's what they were told by the prosecution.
A 'would-be cop'. Aspiring to be a police officer is a bad thing?
A 'self-appointed guardian of the neighborhood'. Hardly; he was a member of the local Neighborhood Watch, a program originally started by the police way back in 1972 (before Robinson's time, obviously). Due to my advanced age, obviously, I can remember back when every parent in a neighborhood was a 'self-appointed guardian of the neighborhood'.
Who 'carried a loaded gun'. For those of us who do choose to carry, yes, it is loaded. And Zimmerman was fully authorized to do so.
He 'profiled Martin'. It's profiling to report someone who is acting suspiciously? OMG ... better tell Homeland Security.
He 'stalked Martin despite the advice of a 911 operator'. Not according to the trial transcript, which, assuming he can read, Robinson should have read.
The 'stalking led to a confrontation'. And according to the trial transcript, it was Martin who confronted Zimmerman, not conversely.
Zimmerman 'fatally shot Martin'. That's the first factual statement Robinson made; but just to add a few additional facts, the shooting occurred only after Zimmerman was attacked, was being beaten, and in fear of his own life.
Eugene Robinson is the racist bigot; not George Zimmerman.
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