Michael Snyder on the Coming Doctor Shortage

"The United States already has an emerging shortage of doctors, and thanks to Obamacare that shortage is about to become much, much worse. Right now, the U.S. has close to a million doctors, and about half of them are over the age of 50. Many of them are beginning to wonder if practicing medicine is worth it anymore. In some specialties, treating Medicaid and Medicare patients pays so little that many doctors are now turning them away. Other doctors are charging their regular patients enormous amounts in order to make up for the money that they are losing on Medicaid and Medicare patients. And of course the paperwork and the red tape imposed on doctors by the health insurance companies and the federal government gets worse with each passing year. Some doctors actually spend more time filling out paperwork and dealing with red tape than they do seeing patients. On top of everything else, there is the constant and never-ending threat of being sued by predatory lawyers and losing everything."


Read the full article at FreedomOutpost.com.

Michael Tanner: Lies about Lies

"The Obama administration continues to suggest that it’s not the health-care law that is causing people to lose their current plan, but rather unscrupulous insurance companies, which are canceling plans for reasons unrelated to Obamacare. That’s nonsense. The genesis of the cancellations start with the law’s individual and employer mandates."
"The same conditions that are causing the cancellation of individual policies will eventually result in the cancellation of millions of employment-based policies as well...Even the Congressional Budget Office estimates that as many as 20 million workers will lose their current employer-sponsored plans."


Read the full article at NationalReview.com.

Dean Kedenburg: FreeMarketCare

"The first thing Republicans need to do is take the largest lesson from the ACA playbook; then do the opposite. The ACA went large, voiding longstanding relationships among patients, providers and insurers, a strategy ill-received by many. A successful alternative plan should begin small, picking apart the vulnerabilities of the ACA and countering with more favorable alternatives. Since proponents of the ACA will strive to thwart every free-market proposal, any step put forward must be simple, popular, and difficult to oppose. Any unnecessary steps should be avoided."


Read the full article at AmericanThinker.com.

Kimberly Strassel: The President's ObamaCare Backpedal

"Mr. Obama took to the podium in the White House briefing room to explain that yes, some Americans may indeed now keep the health-care plans they like. Maybe. If insurers can undo three years of work in a few weeks. If state regulators can move at similar lightning speed. So long as the old plans come with new warning labels. And with the understanding that those Americans lucky enough to receive a renewal option can only keep the plans they "like" for a further year. Those giant caveats aside, the president wishes you good fortune."


Read the full article at The Wall Street Journal.

Why does the Pay Suck?

High and rising wages depend on the quantity and quality of liberated capital invested in the labor.


Read the full article at FrontPageMag.com.

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Where do Jobs Come From?

Praise for 'Where do Jobs Come From?'
"This article is an exemplar of clarity, logic, and structure, in its advocacy of literacy in fundamental market economics."
Dernon Ruton

"Excellent article, Mr. Hyde, it should be required reading and re-reading...for all youngsters from Jr. High, Sr. High and throughout their college, trade school and / or apprenticeship years of education"
-KansasCindy

"There are economics and business majors across the USA (and probably Canada too) who will graduate in May or June of next year. And they have not yet read one article like this."
-Fernanando

Read the full article at: http://www.americanthinker.com.

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Pro American Defense Libertarians of the World, Unite!

Dr. George Reisman is a retired professor of economics at Pepperdine University and was a personal disciple of Ludwig von Mises and Ayn Rand. He has written a 1 million-word treatise on economics titled Capitalism, which as one might expect is an exhaustive defense of free-market principles. Unlike some of his libertarian colleagues, however, he does not drive his theory over the cliff and bury it 6000 feet under the ocean floor. Here is a difference between George Reisman and the Murray Rothbard-Lew Rockwell libertarians. George Reisman: "The paid manufacture of weapons of defense comes under the heading of productive activity. For example, American defense contractors, who produce weapons to defend a division of labor, capitalist society against foreign aggression, perform an invaluable service on behalf of the protection of innocent human life." Rothbard and Rockwell would have difficulty pronouncing such a pro-American government-based defense statement. Ask Ron Paul to declare where he stands.

Elbert Guillory: Why I am a Republican

Louisiana state senator and African-American Elbert Guillory explains why he switched from the Democrat to the Republican Party.
Watch the video at YouTube.com.

Howard Hyde Pulls the Plug on Obamacare at AAPS Conference

On September 28th, Howard Hyde presented his vision and strategy for defeating Obamacare at the annual meeting of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS).
Watch the video at YouTube.com.

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Three Obamacare Defunding Myths

Liberals seriously exaggerate the costs of the Cruz strategy. Unfortunately, much of the debate surrounding this question has been misleading, if not completely wrong.
Read the complete article at The Cato Institute.

Howard Hyde Speaking at Annual Meeting of AAPS Denver Sept 28

Howard Hyde will be one of many distinguished speakers at the annual meeting of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), which starts tonight in Denver Colorado. Mr. Hyde's talk on Obamacare, citizen economics and the unprecedented achievements of American medicine prior to 2010 is scheduled for Saturday morning September 28.
See: http://www.aapsonline.org/index.php/event/aaps_70th_annual_meeting.

Obamacare Will Increase Avg. Individual-Market Insurance Premiums By 99% For Men, 62% For Women

For months now, we’ve been waiting to hear how much Obamacare will drive up the cost of health insurance for people who purchase coverage on their own. Last night, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services finally began to provide some data on how Americans will fare on Obamacare’s federally-sponsored insurance exchanges.
Read the complete article at Forbes.com.

GOP Congress Gets Serious About Fighting Obamacare

The GOP House leadership will adopt a politically risky strategy to try to stop Obamacare by passing a bill funding every government function except Obamcare. Also Wednesday, Republicans in the House unveiled legislation they plan to push to replace Obamacare and provide real health care affordability and access to the American people.
Read the complete article at World Net Daily.

The Obamacare Bomb

A mere three weeks remain before the Obamacare exchanges open for business. The likely result will be the closing doors on Main Street, as shopkeepers and entrepreneurs shut down, unable to make ends meet. It’s clear that the wounded economy can’t cope with the exploding costs ahead. Ohio announced that premiums would rise in the individual market by an average of 88 percent next year. Premiums will rise 72 percent in Indiana, 125 percent in Wisconsin. Even California, with its relatively robust individual market, is bracing for increases of 66 percent.
Read the complete article at The Washington Times.

The Obamacare Exchanges are only the First Step

Supporters of Obamacare acknowledge that "the exchanges are an instrument of enormous potential power". Anyone who says ObamaCare isn’t a government take-over of health care needs to pay better attention. We should all be very, very concerned.
Read the complete article at The Galen Institute.

As Obamacare's 'Compassionate' Reality Sets In, Companies 'Cruelly' Cut Health Benefits

American businesses are discovering each and every day that the president’s signature law will raise health costs for them and their employees in short order.
Read the complete article by Sally Pipes at Forbes.com.

Migration of Personal Incomes Between States

Some states, due to their tax and regulatory regimes, are gaining in personal incomes at the expense of other, more poorly-run states. Biggest winners: Florida, Arizona, Texas and North Carolina. Biggest losers: New Jersey, Illinios, California and New York.

See the graphic at The Tax Foundation

ObamaCare Was Sold to American Voters on Deceptive Terms

In most states, the only people who face real premiums are in the “individual market,” where individuals and families pay for insurance out of their own pockets. Yet the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) will outlaw the pricing of individual risk (medical underwriting) by year’s end. Health insurance, therefore, is very different from just about every other form of insurance.

Read the complete article by John C. Goodman, PhD at The Independent Institute.

The Wisdom of Ronald Coase

Economist Ronald Coase passed away September 2 at age 102. His influence on the discipline is immeasurable. He had co-authored his last book, How China became Capitalist, just last year.
Coase's most famous paper, "The Problem of Social Cost" in 1960, dealt with "externalities," or economic costs (say, downstream pollution) that are used to justify some tax or regulation. Coase showed there may be better ways to address those costs, especially if property rights are well defined. The right to perform certain actions, when properly protected by the law, can be priced and traded like any other good. If transaction costs are low, firms and individuals can bargain their way to a mutually beneficial outcome without litigation, taxation or coercive regulation.

Read the complete article at The Wall Street Journal.

Obamacare Threatens Privacy in America

Over the past several months, a stream of reports from government auditors and news stories has raised serious questions about the Administration’s implementation of Obamacare and its effects on the privacy of millions of Americans. The reports paint a portrait of an Administration casting aside security concerns—potentially putting Americans’ financial and health data at risk—in its push to open insurance exchanges in all 50 states by October 1. These recent developments should provide further impetus for Congress to defund the entire law before the exchanges are able to undermine personal privacy.

Read the complete article at The Heritage Foundation.