Back on October 27, 2013, we shared John Taylor’s graph showing the difference between the amount of spending outlays involved in the House and Senate Budget proposals for the U.S. government’s 2014 fiscal year: At the time, we noted that the question before U.S. lawmakers was where they would really draw the line for…
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Procurement scandals are common in the U.S. military and seldom the sort of thing anyone could make up. In the latest, as reported by the Washington Post, the U.S. Navy paid $1.6 million for firearm silencers valued at $8,000 – more than 200 times the manufacturing cost – and that most likely never should…
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Today, we’re going to tie together a number of threads that we’ve been following with respect to the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. “Obamacare”), because they just all intersected each other. First, let’s begin by filling in more of the map showing the number of individual health insurance policies…
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President Barack Obama’s announced intention is to bring “quality, affordable,” health insurance to the uninsured. That is not likely to happen for some time, if at all, given the debacle of the rollout. But Obamacare has already succeeded in taking away health insurance from some 19 million people in the individual market. Those people…
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Elon Musk of Tesla got a U.S. federal government loan of $465 million to produce the upscale Tesla Model S electric car. At more than $70,000 the car is too expensive for most consumers and as Britain’s “Top Gear” found, the car ran far less between charges than Elon Musk claimed. Now other problems…
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How come the Department of Health and Human Services didn’t have to shut down its efforts to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act during the recent partial federal government shutdown? The reason comes down to the law itself. Members of the Democratic party, who were in the majority in both the U.S….
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The lies, waste, fraud and incompetence involved in Obamacare have been getting a lot of ink and deservedly so. But while Americans watch the health hokum unfold they should not forget fallout from the federal stimulus. Consider, for example, the fortunes of Abound Solar. In 2010 Barack Obama praised the company as an excellent…
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President Obama would appear to be on the verge of taking actions that will make his signature health insurance reform law much more expensive. As it stands today, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”) makes health care insurance affordable by providing a tax credit subsidy for Americans who buy health insurance…
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As we recently noted, the Internal Revenue Service has been handing out money to people not entitled to receive any of it. Long Island resident Carol Cooke, for example, received tax refunds for thousands of dollars, all to people who did not live at her residence. This was obvious fraud, but when Cooke contacted…
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Here’s a little blurb we caught a couple days ago over at Instapundit: WAPO: How Political Calculation Won Out Over Technical Considerations with HealthCare.gov. “They were running the biggest start-up in the world, and they didn’t have anyone who had run a start-up, or even run a business.” It caught my attention because it…
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