Die, Leviathan, Die.

They Had a Dream | The Weekly Standard. “It is actually harder to do some of these things in reality than we thought when we put it down on paper,” a book review in the Washington Post quoted a former Obama health care adviser as saying. This can stand as the last word for the great aspiration,… Read More Die, Leviathan, Die.

Jonah Goldberg on The Vital Importance of Saying “I Told You So.”

Normally, when a piece of legislation is flawed, the spirit of bipartisanship demands a responsible effort to fix it. In this way, both critics and proponents can work together democratically to best benefit their constitutents. But not this time. This time, the Democrats can eat it. This time, they passed a law that every Republican… Read More Jonah Goldberg on The Vital Importance of Saying “I Told You So.”

Who the &#^% Did You Think Was Going to Be Paying For It?

I’m hearing a lot of this from the sudden victims of Obamacare. Most young, middle-class Americans I know are happy that millions of previously uninsured people will receive free or heavily subsidized insurance under the Affordable Care Act. We just didn’t realize that, unless we had health insurance at work, we’d be the ones paying… Read More Who the &#^% Did You Think Was Going to Be Paying For It?

Megan McArdle Discovers the Problem with A Government-Instituted Health Exchange:

Politicians were making decisions about it: So no, this is not a good project undone by Republican “sabotage,” as I saw suggested on Twitter this morning. It’s a potentially good IT project undone by system design and deadlines chosen for political reasons, rather than feasibility. What we’ve been through in the last week, I’d argue,… Read More Megan McArdle Discovers the Problem with A Government-Instituted Health Exchange: