Posts Tagged ‘health care’
NBC: Obesity ‘No Longer A Question of Individual Responsibility,’ Government Must Act
Touting new recommendations from an Institute of Medicine panel on obesity on Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, science correspondent Robert Bazell proclaimed to viewers: "...a sea change in how we perceive obesity. No longer a question of individual responsibility, but a need to change...-
HHS Sebelius Forced to Admit Total Constitutional Ignorance of Health Mandate Legal Issues
Get me outta here! I'm being forced in a most humiliating manner to reveal to all the world my profound ignorance of basic constitutional issues.Something like that thought must have been rolling around inside the mind of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius while she...-
Walter E. Williams Column: Being a Good Economist and Being ‘Compassionate’ Are Mutually Exclusive
It's difficult to be a good economist and simultaneously be perceived as compassionate. To be a good economist, one has to deal with reality. To appear compassionate, often one has to avoid unpleasant questions, use "caring" terminology and view reality as optional.Affordable...-
WaPo Ombudsman Agonizes Over Popularity of ObamaCare Story
Please forgive us for publishing a story about the true costs of ObamaCare. We didn't really mean for it to go viral on the Web. Even worse, the article bolstered the arguments of those vicious rightwingers.That pretty much sums up the laughable public hand wringing by Washington Post...-
WaPo Ombud Frets Paper Produced Story Conservative Bloggers Liked
It's not every day that the ombudsman for one of the nation's elite newspapers puts, front and center, his publication's angst about publishing information counter to the Obama administration's spin, but there it is, today, in the Washington Post.The Post's ombudsman, Patrick...-
At AP, De Facto Obama Admin Spokesman Babington Continues to Milk the ‘Gender Gap’
When I saw the headline at last night dispatch from the Associated Press's Charles Babington on presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his campaign ("Romney rebuts claims that he, GOP are anti-women") I thought that the Obama administration and Babington's employer,...-
