Jim Wheeler
BS, USNA, Annapolis, 1959; MSA, The Geo. Washington U., 1975; Submariner, Commander, USN, 1959 - 1981; Aerospace battery engineer & mgr., 1981 - 1999; Political affiliation: Mainly of the Democratic persuasion but not a fan of the extremes on either side.
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Tag Archives: ACA
The Chargemaster
One of the several magazines I subscribe to is Time. It’s skinnier than it used to be and it doesn’t provide as extensive a coverage of the nation’s culture as it used to aspire doing, but it does produce writing … Continue reading
Open Wide and Say, AHA!
Few events in American life are more controversial than healthcare reform, the Affordable Care Act, also known as “ObamaCare”. The prejudice against it from the right has been so intense and prolonged that the mere term became a pejorative on … Continue reading
China Redux?
A major meme driving conservatives’ disparagement, nay hatred, of Obamacare, is that it is a socialistic approach to medicine, something that is ruining “the greatest healthcare system in the world” by turning competitive businesses (the medical industrial complex) into a … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare
Tagged ACA, bureaucracy, capitalism, China, healthcare, malpractice, maozedong, medical errors, ObamaCare, primary medicine, socialism, socialized medicine
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Striking It Rich In Galena?
The practice of medicine continues to be a lucrative business, at least for some doctors. Only yesterday I posted about how medical insurance, unlike car or life insurance, is little more than passing on budget-killing costs to an increasingly needy … Continue reading
Hey Doc, Is There A Generic For This?
What is the most profitable of all industries in the country? Before I looked it up I might have said electronics or movies, or maybe even computer games. But no, I won’t keep you in suspense, Dear Reader. It is … Continue reading
Ice Bergs and Ice Cubes
The financial crisis in healthcare dwarfs all other federal budget problems. It is an iceberg, and the ship of state is headed right for it. The ACA does not do enough to rein in medical costs that continue to outpace … Continue reading
Boiling It Down
With confirmation bias rampant, sometimes it makes sense to me to try to boil problems down to basics, so I have tried to do that here. A writer in the Globe thinks he is the only one who can see … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Medicine, Obamacare
Tagged ACA, EMTALA, Health care, hospitals, Insurance, ObamaCare
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Uncle Sam’s Protection Racket
George Will, that persistently pedantic pundit of politics, now chooses in today’s Joplin Globe (3/14/11) to peruse the constitutionality of mandatory health insurance, i.e., the Affordable healthCare Act, a.k.a., ObamaCare. I enjoy watching George on television, but his writing, not … Continue reading
An Economic Conversation
Having been inspired by my recent trip into the past in the time machine left to me by my distant ancestor, Dr. Wells, I recently resolved to test its functions for traveling into the Floyd’s house was a modest, well, … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Federal Government, Fiscal Policy, Government size, Government waste, Humor, Medicare
Tagged ACA, humor, MediCaid, Medicare, tax code, tax code reform, tax preparers
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Still Skeptical After All These Years 