Cavalcade of Risk #167: Now online!

Russell Hutchinson presents this week's Cavalcade of Risk and, as usual, does an outstanding job. As he notes, "whatever the conditions, I usually find at least one writer in each Cavalcade offers something interesting that is written well."Take his advice and check it out....

Obamacare vs. God

The battle over forced birth control just won't go away. This should not be surprising. Government intrusion in to our life is creating a nanny state.      Eat this, don't eat that. Warning labels. Calorie counts. You can buy two 16 ounce drinks but not one 32 ounce drink.Yeah, that makes sense.Tyndale House...

Alzheimer's News

It's been a little while since we've written about Alzheimer's; two recent news items on the subject caught my attention.First, it appears that researchers at the "Barcelona Biomedical Research Institute have hailed a natural hormone linked to the sleep cycle as an important new weapon in the fight against" Alzheimer's. Combined with an active lifestyle (exercise), melatonin seems to be effective...

ObamaDentalTax

Dr Kim Henry is a dentist (and friend of Bob's) who practices in Hapeville, Georgia. He's also a veteran (Navy) who served alongside Marines in Lebanon in 1983. Having been in practice for over 3 decades, he's seen a lot of changes in health care. Recently, he penned this post for his own FaceBook page, and has graciously allowed...

Will Obamacare figure in the debates that start this week?

I think not much. Why not?  Obama may not want to bring up this law because, despite the Supreme Court decision, it remains widely unpopular. Romney may not want to bring it up either.  That’s because the Obama campaign would very likely not respond on the issue, but instead would respond by claiming "Romneycare" in Massachusetts was the model for Obamacare.  That’s false; Romney’s...

Assinine Industry Tricks

Back in the day (2 months ago), I could get competitive quotes from several carriers using the application of just one. Apparently, the carriers think the new ObamaTax Exchanges are preferable to (icky) agents, though, because that's now a thing of the past.Professional agents "pre-screen" groups so that the quotes have some...

Sarah P and The MVNHS© [UPDATED]

If you want to see how the system on which the ObamaTax was modeled really works, you have only to pick up a British newspaper:"Cost-cutting NHS chiefs are routinely assigning just one family doctor to districts that stretch over hundreds of square miles ... Patients are still put at unacceptable risk by apparently negligent...