Thursday’s Links

Big Government: ACORN threw out Republican voter registration cards.

World Net Daily: Antarctic ice melt lowest in 30 years. If this Global Warming gets any worse, we may all freeze to death!

Time: “How Did Sarah Palin Write Her Memoir So Fast?” Having written a 300+ page novel in 5 months, while homeschooling my kids, I can tell you it’s not only possible, but fairly simple. But then Time is really more interested in tainting Palin’s name than the truth.

London Mail: From the “Joys of Socialized Medicine” files—Brit plumber with shattered arm left horrifically bent out of shape has operation 'cancelled four times'.

Detroit News: Two Ann Arbor teens, both Muslims, attacked and called ethnic names. The girl, 16, received a black-eye and had to have stitches on a head wound. Police ruled it wasn’t hate crime, since the attackers were Black.

Pennsylvania Patriot-News: Gun grabbers chortle and gloat over shooting death of 2nd Amendment advocate.

Who’s really at fault?

LA Times: Insurance company denies claim, girl dies. Bad, bad insurance company

LA Times: Insurance company refuses to pay for out-of-state operation. Bad, BAD insurance company.

Except that…

A. In the first case the girl actually died nine days after the denial (and hours after the insurance company reversed its decision to allow the transplant). Which means it’s unlikely she would have survived the transplant, even had it been done.

B. In the second case the man is filthy rich and was easily able to afford the transplant out-of-state. His condition wasn’t urgent at the time (thus the wait time in California) and the solution he and others are arguing for would remove the decision making from the insurance companies to government bureaucrats. How’s that going to work?

Heritage Foundation: Medicare is the largest denier of health care claims in the US.

Apparently, not well.

Posted by Danny Carlton at October 8, 2009 8:24 AM