Obamacare Update

A Roundup of Recent News Reports on America’s Dalliance with Socialized Medicine

-In a recent report, PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute estimates that healthcare costs will increase by 6.8% in 2015. 

-According to a report by the Urban Institute, the uninsured rate for children under the age of 18 hasn’t budged under Obamacare.  The rate was 7% before and after the implementation of Obamacare.

-The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reported on September 15, 2014 that nearly half a million people could lose their subsidies or health insurance coverage obtained under Obamacare due to failure to document eligibility.

-Kaiser Health News reported on August 25, 2014 that Obamacare has enabled more transgender people, many of whom are low income individuals, to get sex reassignment surgery.

-Numerous news outlets have reported that costly ER visits have skyrocketed since the inception of Obamacare.

          There are daily news updates chronicling the negative effects and disappointing outcomes of Obamacare and we will continue to track and report them here.   

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Presdient Richard M. Nixon

Nixon Was One of Our Greatest Presidents

President Nixon Was One of Our Greatest Presidents

          Forty years ago today President Richard M. Nixon resigned the office of the presidency, becoming the first and only president in U.S. history to do so.  Many today might wonder how this could have happened when the absolute worst president ever currently occupies the White House with impunity.  The explanation is actually quite simple.  In the early 1970s, both the Senate and the House of Representatives were packed with liberal Democrats who could only be described as pathological ‘Nixon haters’.  Couple that with the fact that there were no balanced news networks like Fox back then, only the three liberal networks, ABC, CBS and NBC.  With left-wing news anchors like Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite spewing their venom every evening for more than a year, the American people were slowly brainwashed into believing that President Nixon had done something horrible.  There is simply no other explanation for how a president who was re-elected by one of the largest landslides in history could fall so far in just two years.  Rather than drag the country he loved through a divisive impeachment battle, President Nixon had the decency to resign, even though he knew he had done nothing to deserve being impeached.

What Might Have Been

          One has to wonder how much better the world would be today if this great statesman had served out the remaining years of his second term.  Vietnam would now be a democracy.  The horrors of ‘the killing fields’ of Cambodia might have been prevented.  President Nixon’s ‘war on cancer’ would have had the chance to fully blossom, potentially saving many lives throughout the world.  The possibilities are endless, but, alas, all of this was quashed by a group of partisan politicians and liberal newsmen.  In the end, President Nixon did nothing worse than any other president.  Perhaps his greatest failing was that he misled the American people to protect some of his staff members.  Contrast that with Impeached President Bill Clinton who lied under oath to protect himself!  Forty years after the fact, President Richard M. Nixon is now regarded as one of our greatest presidents and I am proud to say that I have known that all along.  We could sure use a good man like him now!

 

Presdient Richard M. Nixon
Presdient Richard M. Nixon

  

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De-Leninization Long Overdue

A Toilet for Pigeons in Every Russian City

          Ninety years after his death in 1924, possibly from neurosyphilis, Vladimir Lenin still presides over the main square in many Russian cities.  His statue seems ever present to the traveler making his way across the Russian Federation today.  The Russian people have long since moved on after his failed communist experiment met its dramatic end in 1991, raising the question of how much longer these gaudy effigies will remain standing.  In most cities they are largely ignored by all but the pigeons who find the Bolshevik’s bald pate a perfect place to deposit their droppings.

Pigeon Toilet in Perm, Russia
Pigeon Toilet in Perm, Russia

The Wizard of Ude

          The most garish of all the Lenin statues resides in the main square of the Siberian city of Ulan-Ude.  The gigantic head, erected in 1970 to celebrate the centennial of Lenin’s birth, looks more like the Wizard of Oz with water on the brain.  Nonetheless, it is the center of attraction in this otherwise unremarkable city, drawing crowds of children wanting to have their picture taken under his comical countenance.

The Giant Lenin Head in Ulan-Ude, Russia
The Giant Lenin Head in Ulan-Ude, Russia

At the Corner of Lenin and Marx

          Visitors to Russia will also notice that almost every major Russian city has both a Lenin Street and a Marx Street.  Yet, the Russian people will proudly tell you that they now consider themselves to have a free market economy while they enthusiastically point out the signs of a thriving capitalist nation all around them.  Do the sparse visitors to Lenin’s Mausoleum in Moscow portend a coming de-Leninization, paving the way for a shift in loyalties to the current Russian dictator?  Many feel that it is only a matter of time before the archaic street names and the guano splattered statues are removed.  Perhaps then the waxy figure lying in state in Red Square will finally be buried.

 

Vladimir Lenin's Deserted Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow
Vladimir Lenin’s Deserted Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow

         

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