By now, even Tibetans who live in caves and eat rope for a living have heard that Obamacare is an utter disaster. And that isn’t just the folks who can correctly add two numbers together and digest more than website … Continue reading →
The Czar has good news for Republicans. Unfortunately, the Republican Party has no clue what to do about this and is almost certain to miss the opportunity as well as fail to understand why this was good news. And so … Continue reading →
The Great Merlin writes thusly: Dr. J., Here’s something that confuses me (well, technically, yet another entry on a long list of things, but let’s not go there, shall we?). In all of the discussions about Obamacare/ACA, Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP/SCHIP, … Continue reading →
I‘m not Herzog is the kind of guy you can expect to take apart a car, put it back together, and say “Here is how you improve this.” Like just about everybody else, he has an opinion or two on … Continue reading →
Conservatives, to say the least, are deeply divided over the Roberts opinion. Right-wing pundits are equally divided, even ones who normally agree with each other on everything. Over here at the Big G, the minions seem equally divided…and there is … Continue reading →
‘Puter was thinking this morning, as he walked in the pre-dawn darkness, lukewarm rain pelting his rain jacket. ‘Puter realized that less than 100 years ago, he’d likely be dead or permanently disabled. You see, back injuries were, and still … Continue reading →
Unlikely as it seems, these words were spoken by Adam Urbanski, Rochester Teachers Association (union) president, in the context of difficult contract negotiations. It was an acknowledgment that a union cannot be so greedy that its employer can no longer … Continue reading →
MEMORANDUM RECD Castle GIN RE Follow-up on Order [redacted]UNCLASSIFIEDREAD ALOUD TO GPPOST TO BLOG Notorious ŒV, Dr. J. spoke and the Obama Administration timorously quaked in fear. The mystery shoppers have been abated for now. Quoth team Obama: “After reviewing … Continue reading →
MEMORANDUM RECD Castle Gormogon IN RE Order [redacted] from Confucius, Œc. Vol., commanding Dr. J to report on what it’s like to be spied upon by someone other than Gs UNCLASSIFIEDTO BE READ ALOUD TO GPPOST ON BLOG Dear ŒV, … Continue reading →
All your points are well-taken, but I’d add two. First, people are sitting around figuring out how to deny care to the Lebensunwerten. That’s what all the end-of-life, quality-of-life, “bio-ethics” discussion masks. It’s all put as voluntary and “compassionate” (benevolence … Continue reading →
Dread and Awful Czar , Today was a weird day for Dr. J in that both a Facebook buddy and a colleague in the Ivory Tower both made snarky comments to Dr. J. regarding Mr. Cheney’s clockwork heart given that … Continue reading →
In 2007, 239 patients died of malnutrition in British hospitals, the latest year for which figures are available. A wag might say it must be the English cuisine. But the real roots of this tragedy lie in Britain’s government-run medical … Continue reading →
…Panic on the streets of BirminghamI wonder to myselfCould life ever be sane again? ♫ So, yeah, remember the guy Obama knew he couldn’t get through Congress, so gave him a recess appointment as head of Medicaid & Medicare? Right, … Continue reading →
…are we going to have to have this fight over every goddamned decision these evil bastards make?! Yes, evil. They’re going to let people die because they don’t believe it’s in “society’s” interest that they live. Evil. In September, the … Continue reading →
Update: Now with pictures! That Dr. J had sent originally, but the Volgi just noticed. He blames the Liao Drug. But, you may be asking yourself, how does a healthy 41-year-old get felled by a stroke out of the blue? … Continue reading →
Farewell, Mitt. As they cast the 216th vote last night, Nancy Pelosi and her minions also smashed Mitt Romney’s presidential ambitions. There is literally no substantial difference between Obamacare and Romneycare. The fundamentals are exactly the same: an individual mandate … Continue reading →
Buy it here. Via Li Bai. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Gormogons Twitter follower S.E. Cupp is dead-on in her diary (in which she reveals her academic past as the curatrix of a The Greater Connecticut NKOTB Museum): I read Kathryn Lopez’s account of the chaos among Catholics on health care … Continue reading →
Not much. Enjoy your “free” medicine, kids, provided by the graduates of the finest medical schools of Guatemala, Uganda, Bangladesh, and Albania. You get what you pay for. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →The good doctor returns to the Bizarro World of Tom Toles again this week, emerging with his sanity mostly intact. Confucius has edited this slightly for space. There are now four kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and now, … Continue reading →
Dr. J, in a letter your Volgi’s been remiss in posting, waxes a bit despondent about the looming threat of Obamacare. The bulk of his missive concerned the Slaughter Stratagem, ginned up by ’Puter’s neighbor, Weezy. Since that seems to … Continue reading →
More comix ’n’ commentary from Dr. J, bidding fair to become the Gormogons’ comics’ page editor. He and the Czar are a dagger points—literally, Doc’s got some sort of Bowie knife and the Czar’s got some bizarro Circassian kinjal and … Continue reading →
Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Dr. J, who keeps his stethoscope in his ABA-era afro, writes in with an excellent point of how political polemic corrodes the mind, to the point where black is white and down is up. I have been historically amused by … Continue reading →
Front-row seat! In free! No pay! Doc writes: The recent spate of retirement announcements (Bayh) and rumors (Mikulski) has gotten me thinking that Congress will pass the Senate bill and then tweak it via reconciliation during the lame-duck session when … Continue reading →
Don’t believe the CBO ten-year number. It’s a fraud, because the Democrats have gamed the system to collect four years of taxes to credit against the number before they start spending. Here’s a graph with a realistic estimate of the … Continue reading →
A drug that can prolong the lives of patients with advanced liver cancer has been rejected for use in the NHS in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) said the cost of … Continue reading →
MS: Well, I think in naked political terms, I said this a few weeks ago, Hugh, that I think this, if you’re on the political left, this is the fastest way to a permanent left of center political culture. You … Continue reading →
No idea who these guys are, but this is really good. Any billionaires out there want to do a media buy and put this stuff on radio and TV? GorT, is this one of your side projects you’re funding with … Continue reading →
Well at least we can say that President Obama didn’t lie to the American people. According to this article from today’s Washington Times web site President Obama is pushing for “comprehensive” immigration reform. Funny how we can’t afford to cover … Continue reading →
And in this video, Moffit points to an amendment offered by Rep. Dean Heller, R-NV, during a House Ways and Means Committee meeting just before the recess began that would have required Members to be covered by the Public Option … Continue reading →
One plain fact should outweigh all the words of Barack Obama and all the impressive trappings of the setting in which he says them: He tried to rush Congress into passing a massive government takeover of the nation’s health care … Continue reading →
…you’re better off shivving someone than going to the hospital?! Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →By Rahm Emanuel’s brother, Obama’s health-care advisor. Get ready to suffer and die. It’s your duty. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →You remember a while back when Confucius* said that the concept of health-insurance co-ops is not inherently problematic, but could easily be made so. “The devil,” quoth the Volgi, “is in the details.” And so he is. The devil, d/b/a … Continue reading →
…do this? Say, here’s a thought. Someone keeps saying there are 47 million Americans without healthcare coverage. How about this: find out who they are. The census folks should be getting this data in another few months anyway when they … Continue reading →
To read the Czar’s review of HR 3200, pages 301-400, please click here. Welcome to the World of the Bizarre! We are now ending the first half of HR 3200, and if the previous sections made you angry or confused, … Continue reading →
Well, this sounds good and like a victory for American medicine. But read on a bit and you’ll see this: Under a proposal by Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., consumer-owned nonprofit cooperatives would sell insurance in competition with private industry, not … Continue reading →
With the tremendously important debate currently taking place regarding the perceived need for healthcare reform and the government’s alleged responsibility to provide coverage for every person in this country – which your Mandarin can guarantee will include those in the … Continue reading →
GorT is on vacation with the family. On the way to the undisclosed location (orders have been issued to Biden’s handlers to keep his mouth shut) we were able to stop and see some good friends. A good point was … Continue reading →
Some years ago, when I was a slip of a lad, I found myself commiserating with a distinguished American songwriter about the death of one of his colleagues. My 23-year old girlfriend found all the condolence talk a bit of … Continue reading →
To read the Czar’s review of HR 3200, pages 201-300, please click here. Welcome back! Mastermind correspondant Jeanne asked the Czar about reimbursing early retirees’ medical claims (particularly unions or public sector employees…even those at a non-federal level). The Czar … Continue reading →
To read the Czar’s review of HR 3200, pages 101-200, please click here. Meanwhile, let’s get going and plow into pages 201-300. Poor Ronald Reagan. Perhaps you remember, as the Czar does, the astonishing Tax Reform Act of 1986. This … Continue reading →
To read the Czar’s review of HR 3200, pages 1-100, please click here. The Czar, honestly, did not expect the national attention his effort produced, and is grateful for the cheerleading to press on. Thanks, too, to Jonah Goldberg for … Continue reading →
Brave Gormogons front-line fighter Jeanne takes a moment from her insidious plot to take over the news media from within to write the Czar on pages 1-100 of HR 3200. Go back and look at P. 65, Section 164. It’s … Continue reading →
Click here to read our introduction. Your Czar has completed reading pages 1-100 of all 1,017 pages, eager to learn how HR 3200, if passed, would make healthcare affordable to all Americans. It’s a little hard to fathom that the … Continue reading →
Let us play a word substitution game, because you can learn a lot about someone by substituting analogues for what they say. And if they object, it’s only because they employ situation ethics. If you are unfamiliar with that phrase, … Continue reading →
The Czar enjoyed a leisurely morning at the barber shop, getting his locks shorn and the dead lice combed out. That should last him another year or two. On the television, the WGOR morning news show was offering up a … Continue reading →
Can any of us remember a time when a president of the United States had his own logo? While I only really remember Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr. and Obama, I don’t recall seeing a logo for any of … Continue reading →
Exactly what’s wrong with ObamaCare, and how to fix the current healthcare situation…in only fifteen paragraphs. Politicians, if you aren’t going to read the bill, at least read this. The Czar agrees with this across the board. The Czar of … Continue reading →
Hey Mandarin. The exact text instructs us to send them anything that sounds fishy about the healthcare reform proposals. Send them the full text of the bill and say “Here; start with this.” The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, … Continue reading →
It seems just like yesterday that the liberals were all up in arms regarding the Patriot Act and how it would turn this country into a fascist state where neighbor would be spying on neighbor. Now we get a report … Continue reading →
‘Puter asks why, when the US manufacturing industry is effectively the same size as the health care industry, would the public accept government control of the latter, but almost certainly not the former? Rather, why does the goverment think it … Continue reading →
I know that Rep. Conyers (D-MI) and others complain that they don’t have time to read the bills presented for a vote nor do they fully understand them before they do vote (which one might question then why are they … Continue reading →
If there is a right to health care, someone has the duty to provide it. Inevitably, that “someone” is the government. Concrete benefits in pursuance of abstract rights, however, can be provided by the government only by constant coercion.…When the … Continue reading →
In what has to be one of the most asinine statements to come out of Congress in a long time, and by a long time I mean about 23 minutes ago, Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) comments on the futility of … Continue reading →
He proves he’s as successful at health-care analysis as getting his Bucks to NBA Championships. (That’s HK in the sky-blue blazer.) Fortunately, as you’ll see in the linked story, the Badger State has produced at least one politician who’s with … Continue reading →
Imagine you have a bill on the floor that is growing unpopular with the American public, possibly faster than any other big spending bill in history. You find your bill is losing votes fast. Worse, it turns out that your … Continue reading →
How many times have you heard a child, maybe even yours, claim that they were bored or hungry, and then when you offer to play a game with them, or make them a peanut butter & jelly sandwich they complain … Continue reading →
Betsy McCaughey in the WSJ: Since Medicare was established in 1965, access to care has enabled older Americans to avoid becoming disabled and to travel and live independently instead of languishing in nursing homes. But legislation now being rushed through … Continue reading →
Well, now that ol’ Ted has consumed all the cancer treatments he can afford, he’s awfully blunt about saying how you, your mom, your kids, and every damn other peasant don’t deserve the same. Billy the K makes the catch. … Continue reading →
Good point: In fact, the Pro-Universal Crowd has done a brilliant job of framing a false argument: “Do we stick with a Free-Market Healthcare system which is not working?” or… “Do we at least do something to try and help; … Continue reading →
Glenn Beck is not affiliated with the Gormogons. We will, however, gladly fast-track the membership applications of John Stossel and Penn Jillette. (If they’re not already members… Cue sinister Mandarin laugh.) Via Buttle. Stossel also does a nice job here. … Continue reading →
John Lott writes: Democrats say no rationing, but half the costs of their medical changes come from further reductions in payments to medical providers. Does anyone see the inconsistency here? Click through to the WSJ. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent … Continue reading →
Or should ‘Puter say “Inuit Style”? Mayhaps “First People Style”? Regardless, in today’s Los Angeles Times op-ed section Charlotte Allen makes that case that ObamaCare equals putting old folks on ice floes to die, Eskimo style. Hmmm. Health care rationing … Continue reading →
This is cute: Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →A video and some articles for clicking through if work is slow, or if you find yourself belangoured on the weekend. On Pajamas TV, FotG David Frum continues his argument for the GOP’s forming “new majority” by presenting itself differently … Continue reading →
‘Puter thinks that there’s one thing and one thing only that could make ABC’s visual mash note to President Obama’s health care agenda tolerable. Have Jake Tapper, and maybe John Stossel, run the entire interview. These two gentlemen would certainly … Continue reading →
In this article on Human Events.com, Jed Babbin discusses a proposal by Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) that would exempt union members and their families from paying the new proposed tax on employer provided healthcare benefits. It is incredible that 7% … Continue reading →
President Obama held a news conference today to backtrack on his Iran policy. In addition to abandoning his chosen course on Iran, President Obama also discussed his health care reform agenda. President Obama stated that Medicare and Medicaid are unsustainable … Continue reading →
Here is a great article from Human Events Online that critiques a Mark Steyn article from the April 2009 edition of Imprimus. What I found most interesting is this quote from the article: Mark Steyn provides us with a historical … Continue reading →
Rather than waiting until the next cascade is imminent, and then following the usual modus operandi of propping up the handful of firms that seem to pose the greatest threat, it may be time for a new approach: preventing the … Continue reading →
…say to your friends, “Riddle me this, Batman…” Why not have the federal government demonstrate that it can provide adequate health care to American Indians, a promise it hasn’t kept for 222 years? Then demonstrate it can provide adequate health … Continue reading →
According to this report on the Drudge Report, ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver the June 24th, World News broadcast live from the Blue Room of the White House. Your Mandarin thought it was a clever little jibe when … Continue reading →
So y’all saw all the coverage of President Obama’s “yay for socialized medicine” rally at Lambeau Field yesterday. I’m sure that they mentioned the thousand people who showed up in the middle of the workday to protest. Punningly, they called … Continue reading →
Once again, the Gormogons note, IT’S RATIONING! WHAT GOOD IS “FREE” MEDICINE WHEN YOU CAN’T GET CARE? My views changed in medical school. Yes, everyone in Canada is covered by a “single payer” — the government. But Canadians wait for … Continue reading →
(Your Mandarin writes in.) When I turned 30 back in 1999, I wondered if I would have enough money saved in my various investments (401k, IRAs, annuities, etc.) to retire comfortably. When I turned 40 back in April, I still … Continue reading →
Socialized medicine! It‘s for the children! And poor, helpless old people! Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →The end: socialized medicine The means: simply imposing it, without having campaigned on it or letting it be debated, much less voted on. That’s the proctalgia you feel. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Families described some neglected patients at the hospital drinking water from flower vases because they were so thirsty — it was apparently beyond the interest or the competence of the nursing staff or any supervisors to get them a glass … Continue reading →
Fact No. 1: Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers. Fact No. 2: Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians. Fact No. 3: Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other … Continue reading →
Which is contained in this Roger Kimball column. It also contains this great quote from the late David Stove, a Australian philosopher who was always interesting. [Either a feeling of universal benevolence or an uncompromising moralism] on its own is … Continue reading →
…echoes the Volgi. Flattering for the Volgi, bad for America. “…The markets’ recent precipitous decline is a reaction not just to the absence of any plausible bank rescue plan, but also to the suspicion that Obama sees the continuing financial … Continue reading →
So everyone (on the right, at least) keeps noting that Obama’s “stimulus” package is nothing like an actual stimulus package and won’t help the economy. It’s just the an enormous spending and social-engineering package, the agglomeration of Democrat wish-lists of … Continue reading →
…worrying about whether insufficient F-22 and naval buys are going to inadvertently lead to war with China, it’s stuff like this that’s genuinely terrifying on an individual level. Because what people don’t understand about the “free” medicine they think they’re … Continue reading →
What are the odds that an Obama Administration with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate won’t pass some version of this in a blind hurry? And then welcome to the world of socialized medicine. Enjoy the filth. Prepare to clean … Continue reading →
