Health Care

Feb. 11, 2013 By Chris Reed In April 2010, three weeks after Obamacare was signed into law, The New York Times got around to writing an analysis of the measure that looked at how a key provision had worked at

Karma time: Unions figure out Obamacare is a nightmare

CalWatchdog Staff February 5, 2013

Feb. 5, 2013 By Chris Reed As I noted in a CalWatchdog post last week, the California media are covering the state government’s aggressive attempts to lead the nation in the early implemenation of Obamacare without bringing up its immense fundamental

Obamacare & California: State media ignore coming headaches

CalWatchdog Staff January 27, 2013

Jan. 27, 2013 By Chris Reed Gov. Jerry Brown’s eagerness for California to be the first state to implement the federal Affordable Care Act is being reported matter-of-factly by state newspapers. Completely absent is any big-picture explanation of what this

Same old Dem story: Help for state’s ailing, needy not priority

CalWatchdog Staff January 12, 2013

Jan. 12, 2013 By Chris Reed On the California revenue front, whether times are good or bad, happy or sad, the Democrats who control Sacramento are far more likely to help out the middle-class teachers who are the key force

Video: Obamacare explained

CalWatchdog Staff October 5, 2012

Oct. 5, 2012 By John Seiler Republicans would do better if they were as funny as this lady:

Best short explanation of Obamacare

CalWatchdog Staff September 15, 2012

Sept. 15, 2012 By John Seiler I’ve discovered the best short description yet of Obamacare. It comes in a slam against Mitt Romney by Joe Klein in Time magazine. Klein is a big backer of Obamacare, and of tyrannical central

Budget crisis upside: vindication of critiques of state Democrats

CalWatchdog Staff September 14, 2012

Sept. 14, 2012 By Chris Reed The budget battles of the past few years may have been aggravating, but they have also been full of moments of vindication for conservatives and libertarians who have long watched Sacramento operate with fury

Lance Armstrong should have kept fighting

CalWatchdog Staff August 27, 2012

Aug. 27, 2012 By John Seiler With a name like Lance-Arm-Strong, Lance Armstrong should have kept fighting the anti-doping charges against him. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency just supposedly “stripped” him of his seven titles, although it’s not clear if they

Canada scandal shows how Obamacare would work

CalWatchdog Staff July 5, 2012

July 5, 2012 By John Seiler Even before last week’s Supreme Court ruling mostly green-lighting Obamacare, California was in the forefront of implementing the centralized medicine scheme. In particular, it has been advancing the California Health Benefits Exchange, which would

Brown purges respected doctor

CalWatchdog Staff May 11, 2012

May 11, 2012 By John Seiler California increasingly resembles the Soviet Union in the 1930s but with better weather. The economy is socialist; the leader is megalomaniac; and dissidents are purged. The latest victim is Dr. La Donna Porter, M.D. Her