The new calorie-labeling rules are counterproductive, both because people don’t pay much attention to them (appropriately), and because the whole notion of calorie counting as a means of weight control is nutritionally ignorant.
Category Archives: Health
Junk Nutrition Science
In the comics.
Who knew eating meat causes diabetes?
The Inuit
How adapted to fat are they? Carbs can be literally deadly to them.
E. Coli And Radiation
If this is valid, it would have application not to just life extension, but to space travel as well.
Gruber
Dear Democrats, don’t even think about trying to run away from him.
[Afternoon update]
The epic search of Diogenes for an honest man is over.
[Update a few minutes later]
It gets worse:
I think we’d probably like to get rid of the tax exempt status for health care benefits.
Note that McCain proposed doing just that in the 2008 election. His idea was that we would get rid of this exemption and instead give people an additional tax credit valued at the average cost of health insurance. Thus, people would be held harmless by the change, but we’d get rid of this government-made distortion in how employers pay their employees.
Barack Obama, get this, demagogued that plan and accused McCain of wanting to increase taxes on people.
And meanwhile, he schemed to achieve the same thing, except without that part about giving people an additional tax credit which would offset increased taxes, and, get this, without telling people he was getting rid of the tax exemption.
Once again — subverting democracy by completely destroying the concept of Consent of the Governed.
All in a day’s work.
[Update a while later]
Obama himself was leading the discussion of how to take away the tax benefits.
A Simpler Cheaper Health-Care Policy
It would be a huge improvement over the current mess:
I think that from the libertarian perspective, either of these proposals should be preferable to Obamacare. I’d even argue that they should both be more appealing to progressives. But the administration didn’t want simple, modest and stable; it wanted a massive, transformational legacy. Which is why, four years later, we’re still fighting about it.
Yup.
Sat Fat Resistance Continues To Crumble
This is a pretty significant paper, considering the author.
Airline Travel Tips
From an apparent idiot. Hard to tell if she’s serious, or if this is a parody.
You Can Keep Your Plan And Your Doctor
An ObamaCare architect freely admits they had to lie to the voters to get the law passed. They assume that the voters are stupid, with some basis, since they continue to get re-elected. So it’s a shock to them when the ones who really care and know what’s going on show up at the polls, as they did last week.
ObamaCare
…is going back to SCOTUS.
This makes the en bank ruling in DC pointless.
I’m guessing they’ll find that the subsidies aren’t legal. The question is whether or not they’ll strike down the whole law this time, because they’re a pretty fundamental part of it.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here’s an explainer from SCOTUSblog.
[Update a while later]
And here‘s Jonathan Adler’s take:
With this grant, the court has the opportunity to reaffirm the principle that the law is what Congress enacts, not what the administration or others wish Congress had enacted with the benefit of hindsight. Granting tax credits to those who need help purchasing health insurance may be a good idea, and may have bipartisan support, but the IRS lacks the authority to authorize such tax credits where Congress failed to do so. The PPACA only authorizes tax credits for the purchase of insurance on exchanges “established by the State.”
Yup. To grant an agency that kind of discretion would be a form of tyranny.
[Update a few minutes later]
Six potential effects of a ruling against HHS.