Sunday, December 08, 2013

A Walk on the Wilde Side
...The new health-care law exists for the common good, not just the individual consumer. . . . We are better off as a society--more compassionate, but also healthier--when we can all get the care we need.

So yes, I'll subsidize someone else's prenatal coverage. . . . And I'll remember to be relieved that my own access to health care is guaranteed. But they had better work out the problems with the A.C.A. [Affordable Care Act, the euphemism for ObamaCare]; if they don't, and it doesn't fulfill its promise of insuring the uninsured, I'm really going to feel like a chump....

...The Department of Health and Human Services has crowned a YouTube video entitled "Forget About The Price Tag" as the grand prize winner in a contest meant to encourage young people to sign up for Obamacare. . . .

Without a hint of irony, McDonald sings her chorus: "Ain't about the, uh, cha-ching cha-ching. Ain't about the, yeah, bla-bling bla-bling. Affordable Care Act. Don't worry 'bout the price tag."...