Obamacare was never primarily about getting the best, most affordable health care to Americans

◼ Here's what the the dishonest selling of Obamacare is really all about - Star Parker/Washington Examiner

Why is there no special section “Preventive health services for men?”

A 2010 newsletter from Harvard Medical School talks about the “gender gap” in health, saying that when it comes to health, “men are the weaker sex.”

Life expectancy for women is five years longer than for men. Of the top 10 leading causes of death in the U.S., the incidence among men is markedly higher than among women in 9 of the 10.

You would think if the health care law was going to focus on gender, it would focus on men.

The answer to all of this is that Obamacare was never primarily about getting the best, most affordable health care to Americans.

If it was, there would have been open discussion from the beginning about how best to achieve this. That open discussion never took place.

This was and is about bringing the left-wing agenda of the Obama White House to America.

The result is displacement of religious freedom with left wing tyranny and the beginning of more expensive, lower-quality health care.

◼ Obama's corporatist contraceptive mandate - Timothy P. Carney/Washington Examiner @TPCarney

The audacity and mendacity with which the Obama administration defends its illegal contraception mandate is standard fare for politics. What's distinctively Obamian in this fight is the insidious corporatism underlying it all.

Look at the contraception mandate from almost any angle, and you see the corporatism. Sometimes it's on the surface, and sometimes it's implicit in the arguments.

The contraception mandate is nakedly a huge subsidy to the industry that most firmly supported Obamacare: the drugmakers....

The contraception mandate is corporatist in the way much of Obama's regulation is corporatist: it imposes costs --both financial and moral -- on anyone who dares to go into business for himself. You're better off being a local manager of a Walmart than trying your own hand at entrepreneurship.

Sometimes people think politics is about the collective versus the individual. Most of the time, though, it's about the state versus civil society. It's coercion versus voluntary association.

Government's growth almost always comes at the expense of its rivals -- and that's good news for the corporations willing to mind their own business and leave all that morality stuff to our politicians.