Author: BooMan

The Health Care Debate is Stupid

Reading back over the oral arguments before the Supreme Court regarding the mandate in the Affordable Care Act, it is very striking how stupid this whole argument became. It used to be that Republicans were obsessed about people...

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Will SCOTUS Steal Your Rebate?

Some of you may have a received a letter in your email today from the Department of Health & Human Services. The letter is probably specific to the state you live in. I live in Pennsylvania, so my letter has statistics for...

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SCOTUS Strikes Again

I think the Supreme Court just finished off the other half of their plan for a permanent Republican majority. The opinion was just released an hour ago and I am not an expert on labor law, but based on Sotomayor’s opinion...

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Casual Observation

Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced new grants for 219 local health centers. This comes after a May announcement that they had completed the construction of 67 new clinics out of the 200 they intend...

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Holder Contempt Charge Was Predictable

Barack Obama has been president for almost three and a half years and his administration has not had anything remotely resembling a scandal. That’s why the right is reduced to talking about his birth certificate. There...

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