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: Staunchly Democratic, converted after the GOP receded from its Eisenhower roots.
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Tag Archives: ObamaCare
A Naval Approach to Healthcare
Most Americans find the notion of “socialized medicine” to be abhorrent. In most citizens the concept evokes visions of a moribund, inefficient bureaucracy more concerned with paperwork than in attending to the complexities of health problems. However, I would like … 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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The Medical Contract
I read a George Will column on the Supreme Court’s review of the ACA in this morning’s Joplin Globe that prompted me to submit a letter to the editor. With apologies to those readers who have endured my essays on … Continue reading
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
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
ObamaCare Is Not Insurance
Food, clothing, shelter and health care are not guaranteed citizen rights under the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence, but only “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. Nevertheless, as of last month ObamaCare appears to have become, along with Medicare … Continue reading
