Another Obamacare “gotcha” surfaced this week. There is a provision therein that socks the pharmaceutical industry with an additional new tax, the proceeds of which are to be used to study the comparitive effectiveness of various prescription drugs in treating several illnesses. It appears the aim of that study is to discover one drug, out of several used to treat the same medical condition, which is most effective for the greatest number of patients. Well, SHAZAM, nobody in the medical community ever thought of that before Obamacare came along. Thank goodness for the big brains in Washington, D.C.

Of course Big Brother’s aim is to find one drug that best treats most patients, then dictate that it is the only one Doc’s can prescribe…and then squeeze the drug manufacturers by allowing them to manufacture only that drug for the given condition and accept whatever Big Brother will pay for it….However, you and I were not baked in the same oven and we were not shaped by the same cookie cutter…think, “different strokes for different folks.” One size fits all does not fly in the medical field. This latest little land mine fits right in there with Obamacare’s death panel. Look for some push back from the medical care professionals on this one.

By the way, did you receive your Holiday Thank You Card from PresBO? As the First Family’s little get away to Hawaii cost you and me $4,000,000.00 tax dollars, one would expect at least a small thank you.

How many of you have played ninety (90) rounds of golf in the last 36 months? PresBO has…good thing he has so little business to attend to…such as keeping his “laser like” attention on the economy and lack of jobs for Joe and Jill Sixpack, (the back-
bone of his Party, by the way).

Does it strike you as a little insensitive for your Pres to spend a bazillon dollars of your money on his Hawaii vacation while the rest of us are left back here to twist in the winds of a stagnant economy? Tacky, tacky, as we say down South. The evil George W. Bush, stuck around D.C. over the holidays because he wanted his Secret Service detail to have the opportunity to spend the holidays with their families. Then he left for a time after Christas…and usually went to Crawford, TX or to visit with family in the U.S.

Carpe Diem