The DEA is making codeine a harder drug to get, and a badder drug to deal. This makes me nostalgic for a simpler time, with simpler professionals. When I was a kid, my doctor was a white-haired sadist from Rockford, IL, named Languish. I used to get a lot…

Show Notes: The fight against Obamacare is getting dirty, and you are being tricked out of affordable, effective, healthcare. Americans have been trained to believe two ideas about health care: 1. The market will  take care of you (if it’s profitable), and 2. You’re on your own. Those are…

The fight against Obamacare is getting dirty, and you are being tricked out of affordable, effective, healthcare. Americans have been trained to believe two ideas about health care: 1. The market will  take care of you (if it’s profitable), and 2. You’re on your own.  Is that what America…

Outrage #1: Apple Pie Economics Rewards Cheap Employers Companies can beat their competitors by charging less – if they let the government pick up the tab for employee health insurance.  Solution: Big Companies have to provide health insurance (a/k/a “Pay or Play”): Beginning in 2014, companies with 50 full…

This is a series called “10 Health Care Outrages Fixed by Health Care Reform. I wrote this because I didn’t know what was in the big bill the President signed last March – and this was a good way to find out. Having read the contents, I’m actually proud…