Healthcare?

President Trump is preparing an executive order to let Americans purchase health insurance across state lines.

Gabby Morrongiello has the story at The Washington Examiner.

Why the bitterness, the hate?

Joel D. Hirst writes,

...things are going pretty well these days. The Supreme Court is whole – and with a remarkable, honest and gentle addition; Assad will think twice about using chemicals again; the economy is booming (yes, it has everything to do with confidence and deregulation); jobs are up, jobless claims are down; companies are reinvesting in the United States (it’s about encouragement); the healthcare challenges of a hastily passed and un-debated law are on the way to being addressed; illegal immigration is way down (no, nothing to do with a wall. Yes, everything to do with application of the rule of law). ISIS is being pushed out of Mosul. And the federal government’s thought war against half of its citizens is over.

Read more here.

"The Left thinks that by declaring necessities rights somehow overcomes the individual rights of others!"

Regulated sectors causing biggest price rises

What sectors of our economy are responsible for most of our rising costs? Healthcare, housing, education, and prescription drugs. All areas heavily regulated.


h/t Instapundit

Speech-making and governing are two different things

When Barack Hussein Obama announced in Springfield, Illinois on February 10, 2007 that he was a candidate for president, he gave a speech. Myra Adams goes back to that speech to read the most salient points of his announced candidacy.

The first was to "build a more perfect union" borrowing a phrase from Springfield's own Abe Lincoln. In fact, according to Gallup, the nation is fifth most polarized now that at any time since 1953.

He also complained about mounting debts. In fact, Adams points out that

it is projected that by the time he leaves office, he will have accumulated debt equal to that of all previous presidents in U.S. history combined.

Adams links to this website to provide a graphic understanding of this debt.

In his speech Obama called for an end to poverty in this generation. In fact, there are five million people in poverty now than when he gave that speech.

When President Obama first stepped into the Oval Office, there were 31,939,110 Americans receiving food stamps. Now that number exceeds 46 million.

In the speech he called for universal health care. In fact,

Americans are stuck with an Obamacare legacy of higher premiums and deductibles for all. His signature program remains highly unpopular among 64 percent of Americans, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

What Obama neglected to mention in his 2007 announcement speech was that universal health care, in any form, comes with a sickening price tag.

Equally sickening were a number of politically charged zingers in his speech that were begging to be countered, such as, Let’s be the generation that finally frees America from the tyranny of oil. So here is the rational explanation for his refusing to take action on the Keystone XL pipeline while justifying hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars wasted on Solyndra and other alternative-energy programs benefiting his political cronies.

Then Obama expresses his patriotism, saying, Most of all, let’s be the generation that never forgets what happened on that September day and confront the terrorists with everything we’ve got. Wouldn’t you love for the Pentagon to render a current opinion on that statement?

Obama ends his announcement speech saying, Together, starting today, let us finish the work that needs to be done, and usher in a new birth of freedom on this earth. To that I say, “Kumbaya, Mr. President!” The potential for ushering in a “new birth of freedom on this earth” has never been less attainable, thanks to your avoiding the traditionally strong U.S. presidential leadership role, leaving a world power vacuum in which bad guys and turmoil have flourished.

So, happy eighth anniversary to a speech that started freshman senator Obama on his excellent adventure of over 215 golf outings (including one immediately after he had described as “appalling” the beheading of American journalist James Foley), non-stop fundraising, exotic vacations, and cavorting with celebrities.

His is a journey that will leave our next president with insurmountable problems at home and abroad.

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Do they contribute to health?

The blogger at Cooling Inflammation writes:

More healthcare begets more health costs and less health. Tests detect symptoms that trigger treatment, but more often than not fail to contribute to health.

More public interaction and scrutiny is needed to keep the public safe from the health industry and to hold doctors to their pledge to do no harm.

The blogger goes on to make the following points:

Breast, Prostate and Pelvic Exams Lead to Costly, Harmful, Unnecessary Interventions

The Health Industry Pursues Profitable Tests and Treatment, not Causes and Cures

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