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The U.S. Healthcare System Isn't So Bad
Newsweek | December 20, 2024 | Sally C. Pipes
Following the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the mores of the farthest reaches of social media have made their way to Congress.
Last week, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said, “The visceral response from people across the country who feel cheated, ripped off, and threatened by the vile practices of their insurance companies should be a warning to everyone in the healthcare system. … People can only be pushed so far.”
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said, “Anyone who is confused or shocked or appalled, they need to understand that people interpret and feel and experience denied claims as an act of violence against them.”
Wait until Warren and Ocasio-Cortez find out what’s happening in Canada and the United Kingdom. If “denied claims” are violence, then Canada and Britain are in a permanent state of low-grade warfare.
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Drivers Beware: California's Road Diet To Grow Stricter In New Year
Santa Monica Observer | Kerry Jackson | December 20, 2024
When the calendar turns over to 2025, parking in California cities will be even more of a hassle than it already is. Jan. 1 marks the day that cities can begin slapping tickets on cars parked too close to crosswalks. San Francisco is expected to lose nearly 14,000 street spaces. As many as 100,000 will be erased statewide.
The California Road Diet, which has an insatiable appetite for chewing up useful concrete and asphalt, continues.
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Mushrooming Health Subsidies Are Creating Sick Incentives For Governments To Push Suicide
New York Post | Sally C. Pipes | December 23, 2024
Speaker Mike Johnson this month blasted the United Kingdom’s brand-new assisted suicide law, which will allow doctors to help terminally ill patients end their lives.
“Any society that rejects that truth about life as a gift from our creator and adopts a culture of death . . . is in the process of crumbling,” Johnson (R-La.) warned.
He’s right. Alas, parts of America already welcome assisted suicide.
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