Let me get this straight. In the continuing effort to fix things, Health and Human Services (HHS) has strongly encouraged insurers to do the following things: 1. Pay claims for folks who have not yet purchased health insurance by paying their premiums. 2. Treat out-of-network health care providers as if they were in network. 3.…
I’ve heard lots of things, but this is right up there with the most ludicrous. Recently in Texas, a teenage drunk driver was involved in a horrible traffic accident in which four pedestrians, all members of the same family in the same small town were killed. The teen’s blood alcohol level was apparently three times…
In this information age, we are inundated by the banal. Sometimes, we are overtaken by it, caught up in it, and pretend we are wrestling with monumental human issues, when we are actually being divided to the point of being the exalted potentate of our own individual fiefdom. We have become the kings of our…
You young invincibles…your unwillingness to sign up for insurance under the ACA is a sure sign of your moral failure, since it is the morally right thing for you to do. Any reluctance on your part is an obvious indication of your lack of morality. Have you stopped and considered that? Older, sicker folks need…
Thad Cochran, Mississippi’s Senior Senator, has been good for the State of Mississippi. He has been mostly conservative, but he ranks among the more moderate GOP Senators. Thad has been the champion of earmarks, choosing, rather than media coverage, to bring home the bacon for Mississippi. Thanks, Thad. As a Republican who is more and…
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. Winston Churchill Opinions are like love bugs on a humid July evening. They flit about aimlessly on their brief amorous adventures, only to find themselves mashed against your windshield about the same time they find a mate. I don’t think anything…
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. G.K. Chesterton Once you start with Chesterton, there is no good stopping point. The above quote will likely infuriate my many excellently educated friends. Chesterton said what he said. I will likely add to it. We will go from there…
The traveler sees what he sees; the tourist sees what he has come to see. G.K. Chesterton That Chesterton is so annoying. He takes the obvious and demands that I stare at it until I see its obviousness. There is no escaping him once you start. Arguments against him are undertaken at one’s own…
I have been the recipient of some benefits under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (The ACA, also known as Obamacare). I wonder by what name I should call it now? Should I take the administration’s recent cue and revert to calling it the ACA instead of Obamacare? Should I call it the ACA…
I cannot help but reflect on the shame of the behavior of many shoppers this past Black Friday. Every year it seems like things get worse. It could be that since a whole year rolls around between one Black Friday and the next, it only seems worse. Perception becomes ones reality and I perceive this…
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