Democrats are poor in virtue, but rich in craftiness. They always are up to something, and almost always no good. Since President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration, Democrats relentlessly have screeched, “Republicans want to cut Medicaid! Republicans want to cut Medicaid!” Their desperate screams…
In yesterday’s column discussing the escalating Alinskyite war by the American Left against Elon Musk, I referenced an interview the industrialist, tech tycoon, and scourer of America’s broken federal fisc gave with Larry Kudlow at Fox Business on Monday. That…
The Department of Government Efficiency draws two extreme reactions from budget-focused observers. On one side, you have cynics rolling their eyes and arguing that the truly consequential problem is not overpriced government boondoggles but rather entitlements like Medicare and Social…
Rent-seeking describes profit-seeking through the manipulation of the regulatory or legal apparatus rather than by competing with others in the marketplace. Cronyism is a common form of rent-seeking, as demonstrated by the Solyndra fiasco. When the California-based green energy start-up company…
Recently, Democrats at both federal and state levels have passed or are considering regulations that will grant government health coverage to illegal residents. Bad move for both illegals and legal residents. The Biden administration just announced a Final Rule that will allow…
A recent news report from ABC News caught my eye and should raise the eyebrows of all 85,815,827 Americans enrolled in Medicaid, 26 percent of the U.S. population. Massachusetts Medicaid enrollee Salvatore LoGrande recently lost his battle with cancer after extensive medical…
Gavin Newsom proudly made California the first state to provide no charge Medicaid (called Medi-Cal in Golden State) health insurance to illegal entrants (“illegals”). His plan will cover only adults. Eleven other states also intend to enroll illegals in Medicaid. In contrast to…
Many of our current domestic disasters stem from a slate of legislation passed six decades ago: President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, which resulted in a disastrous centralization of power in the Washington bureaucracy and then sought to impose its destructive…
As drug prices rise, Congress has tossed about for a new villain in the healthcare industry — and it isn’t Big Pharma. Instead, there is an all-out campaign against pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). Ads on YouTube, news sites, Pinterest, and…
