SORRY, LIBERALS: Wage gap the result of differing choices made by men and women.
To use the Left's favorite phrase, "Experts say...."
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
IMPRIMIS: A short history of American medical insurance.
Read it all but pay particular attention to the final section - a way out. Then read Newt Gingrich's proposed Republican pledge on health care. I'm not enamored of all his prescriptions, obviously, but when it comes to price transparency, patient privacy, insurance options, and association purchasing, he's spot on.
I just wish that he would have emphasized that which should be obvious: insurance is a hedge against the catastrophic, in which you spend a few bucks every month - or year - and hope you'll never need to use it, not a prepaid service plan covering things you'll never need, want, or use.
But that's a forlorn hope, as automobile and homeowner insurance are rapidly morphing into service plans (with the appropriate increase in cost).
Read it all but pay particular attention to the final section - a way out. Then read Newt Gingrich's proposed Republican pledge on health care. I'm not enamored of all his prescriptions, obviously, but when it comes to price transparency, patient privacy, insurance options, and association purchasing, he's spot on.
I just wish that he would have emphasized that which should be obvious: insurance is a hedge against the catastrophic, in which you spend a few bucks every month - or year - and hope you'll never need to use it, not a prepaid service plan covering things you'll never need, want, or use.
But that's a forlorn hope, as automobile and homeowner insurance are rapidly morphing into service plans (with the appropriate increase in cost).
"STAY IN SCHOOL, PLAY HARD, AND WORK HARD — slimy journalists' careers depend on it."
It's The Babylon Bee, but this time it's not satire.
It's The Babylon Bee, but this time it's not satire.
More here.
Based on the recent comments of Hirono, Ocasio-Cortez and other assorted Democrats, it seems to me that they believe zero is the high end of the IQ scale....
SOCIAL JUSTICE: Why we can't get along any more.
I think mockery is the best antidote to the SJW infection. Don't ignore them, mock them.
I think mockery is the best antidote to the SJW infection. Don't ignore them, mock them.
Monday, December 10, 2018
A SENATOR FROM VERMONT (make a guess) who says burning fossil fuels is going to be the death of us all torched a shitload of gas flying private around the country to campaign for other people.
Conservation is for little people.
Conservation is for little people.
ACCORDING TO NBC NEWS ANCHOR CHUCK TODD, Trump voters in 2016 were “gullible” and victims of gaslighting.
If he and the rest of hisbirds vultures-of-a-feather want to see gullible and gaslighting, they should look in a mirror.
If he and the rest of his
MAKE YOUR COMMUNITY UNAFFORDABLE: fill it with government workers.
On the bright side, I was able to sell high....
On the bright side, I was able to sell high....
THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez misquotes the Constitution and threatens to run for President.
Sunday, December 09, 2018
GUESS WHO? The Grinch who stole journalistic credibility. Yes, I know it's obvious, but the cartoon is good.
AMERICAN GREATNESS: Progressive politics aren't. "The progressive war has always been one over power not principles or even consistent politics."
THE COLLEGE FIX: Conservative law professor takes on progressive nonsense.
Amy Wax is right: defund the Ivies. And while we're at it, quit funding the parasites. They don't need a college degree to get a job at Starbucks.
Amy Wax is right: defund the Ivies. And while we're at it, quit funding the parasites. They don't need a college degree to get a job at Starbucks.
THANKS, OBAMA: Social Security/Medicare has just notified us that the 2.8% cost-of-living increase for 2019 will actually result in a 2.3% decrease in our net monthly income due to a 49.4% increase in Medicare Parts B & D premiums.
To top it off, thanks to the booming economy that the former President just took credit for, our [401K] retirement savings are down 6.5% this year and our 2019 RMD (required minimum distribution) is estimated to be down by 4.9% despite the fact that the percentage required to be withdrawn is increased each year. [The RMD is the government's excuse for a 'wealth tax'; the money has to be withdrawn and taxed even if we don't need it.]
What really chaps my ass, though, is that after age 65, my choices for health care coverage (formerly known as health insurance) are exactly two:
To top it off, thanks to the booming economy that the former President just took credit for, our [401K] retirement savings are down 6.5% this year and our 2019 RMD (required minimum distribution) is estimated to be down by 4.9% despite the fact that the percentage required to be withdrawn is increased each year. [The RMD is the government's excuse for a 'wealth tax'; the money has to be withdrawn and taxed even if we don't need it.]
What really chaps my ass, though, is that after age 65, my choices for health care coverage (formerly known as health insurance) are exactly two:
(1) one size fits all Medicare, andThe former stinks, and the latter is unaffordable because the former is major-league nontransparent (true, of course, outside of Medicare as well). We could have easily paid our medical expenses out-of-pocket, even at double Medicare's parsimonious reimbursement rates, were we allowed to opt-out of Medicare and simply purchase major medical (i.e., hospitalization) insurance.
(2) self-pay.
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