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: MediCaid
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
If you want to tick off an American, any American, young, old, male, female, just try ordering them around. Want to see real anger? Pass a law telling them what they have to buy. mandate noun 1. an official order … Continue reading
The Voting Majority
George Will is not my favorite columnist, but I do like to read his commentary. If one can get past his pedantic vocabulary there is always actual reasoning that bears consideration. George never uses a small word when a large … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Politics
Tagged de Toqueville, entitlement reform, entitlements, George Will, MediCaid, Medicare, pedantry, pedants, Social Security, tyranny of the majority, vocabulary
8 Comments
The Misunderstood Public Option
I was verbally jousting about health care on another blog recently when a commenter challenged my support for the Public Option. He charged that the PO would not reduce costs, that is unless I intended it to entail “rationing”. Surely, … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Health, Uncategorized
Tagged doctors, Health care, MediCaid, medical costs, Medicare, public option
31 Comments
Healthcare Enlightenment
Here is another update on the high cost of American healthcare, for those of you who subscribed or commented on “A Simple Picture”. You see, I have had it pointed out to me twice now on other blogs by a … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Medicine
Tagged Chuck Grassley, doctor kickbacks, LabCorp, Max Baucus, MediCaid, Medicare, Medicare fraud, Quest Diagnostics, United States, USA Today
17 Comments
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
A Simple Picture
Trying to make sense of economics, the dismal science, is a pretty thankless task, especially with the sharp political divide in Washington and the myriad ways of expressing statistics. Nevertheless, with the Great Recession and stubbornly high unemployment, economics is … Continue reading
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
5 Comments
Symptoms
As the campaign rhetoric begins to flow toward this fall’s elections I offer a small anecdotal observation to support the idea that whatever the government subsidizes results in more of the same. My wife and I often revisit the same … Continue reading
Posted in Federal Government, Fiscal Policy, Government size
Tagged deficit, extra-marital births, government spending, incarceration, MediCaid
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Still Skeptical After All These Years 