(With apologies to blog post subscribers because I mistakenly “Published” a work in progress that had some old data.) It is very difficult to get…
Public Option – Creeping Coverage – POCC
Posted in Health Care, and Health Insurance
Author: skepticalobserver
It can make a person feel really old to find that a common word of his youth is now classified as archaic. That is what…
I didn’t vote for Donald Trump for POTUS (or for Hillary Clinton), but I understand exactly why so many did and why he won the…
Skeptical of Government?
Posted in Government, and Investing
The December 4th Charleston SC Post and Courier included a rather lengthy story, by David Slade (Facebook), describing mismanagement of state employee pension funds over…
Syria Following US Example?
Posted in Civil War
The news from Aleppo makes me wonder how different our own history might have been if Lincoln had just said to the six deep south…
I seldom agree with Leonard Pitts, but today he has a good suggestion. He is very upset about the election of Donald Trump and lists…
Obamacare Replacement Act
Posted in Health Care, Health Insurance, and Medical Care
The “Repeal and Replace” mantra has become a joke since we have not seen any reasonable, easily understood, proposal for the replacement, let alone any…
Power Shift Needed
Posted in Uncategorized
Reading all the doomsday rhetoric on the web today about our president elect gives me hope that we all can unite now in demanding that…
The currently trendy demonization of capitalism and profits and the misperception that “non-profits” are somehow better or more virtuous than for-profit enterprises are unfortunate. Greed…
Measuring Unemployment
Posted in Jobs
Here are three simple true/false questions about employment in the USA. Unemployment is down 40% since February 2009 when President Obama entered office. A person…