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Posts tagged as “health insurance”

PPACA Wins in Court; Founding Fathers Surely Pleased

Dakota War College toots its horn on the misses; I might as well holler for the hits. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is batting over .500 again in the courts. Judge Gladys Kessler in the D.C. Circuit Court…

Kristi Noem Justifies Government Health Insurance, Massive Government Spending

Kristi Noem, Snow-Job Queen (click for tiara—photo credit: Hardin's Photography) Eager reader and fellow citizen Greg Olson submits for the record Congresswoman Kristi Noem's official response on why she's perfectly comfortable taking government-supported health care while trying to take it…

Health Care Repeal Would Hammer Rural America

Alternative Headline: Noem Hates Small Towns! Congresswoman Kristi Noem's only achievement so far is following Speaker Boehner in holding a symbolic vote on repealing health care reform. She's awfully proud of keeping this promise to do nothing. And thank goodness…

Firearm Mandate Joke Backfires: GOP Embarrasses South Dakota Again

Hat tip to Northern Valley Beacon! Rep. Hal Wick (R-12/Sioux Falls) and the co-sponsors of House Bill 1237, the personal firearms mandate, must have thought they were pretty clever proposing a bill that would never pass but would make some…

Guns and Health Insurance: The False Analogy

Extra credit to Rep. Hal Wick (R-12/Sioux Falls) and friends for sparking conversation with HB 1237, the personal firearms mandate. The bill lit up the blogosphere (see Messrs. Woodring, Crissman, Woster, Dahle, Mercer... and Politico!) and Facebook discussions. But Wick…

Judge Hudson Reminds Me: We Need Single-Payer!

I am not fond of the health insurance mandate included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. I agree with Michael Moore that people aren't cars. If health insurance is so important that it warrants a government intervention in…