Tag: Health Care
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Pelosicare Would Vastly Expand Government, Penalize Millions
GWB advisor Keith Hennessey drills down into the report of the Chief Actuary of the federal Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS) to describe the effects of the health care “reform” bill passed by the House. In 2019: The bill would mean almost 30 M new people in government-run insurance, more than four times […]
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“Every Republican in Congress Supports Reform” is a Stronger Message Than “No”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell calls out the other side for dishonest framing of the healthcare debate. I fear the Republicans may have lost the battle simply by letting the issue be framed, improperly, as healthcare "reform."
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Clintonite Matt Miller Makes the Case Against the Public Option
No system will be perfect, but to me it’s axiomatic that competing, regulated insurers will be more responsive to change and innovation than a government bureaucracy.
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The Perverse Incentives of Our Health-Care System
An article in the September Atlantic does the best job I have ever seen of describing why health care is so resistant to cost-control efforts. At 11,000 words, “How American Health Care Killed My Father” is not a quick read, but it’s not a dry policy treatise by any means. (Hat tip: TigerHawk.) When David […]
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Is Pro-Obama News Coverage Hurting ObamaCare?
"While the press often has acted as an early-warning sign for troubled presidential initiatives, the press corp did not perk up until the public was in open rebellion."
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Hitler Comparisons are Odious, Whether About Obama or Bush
You may have seen and applauded the YouTube video of Barney Frank’s verbal smackdown of a twit who accused him at a town hall of backing Obama’s “Nazi” healthcare plan. I agree that Frank’s righteous put-down was well-executed, but I have to protest the notion that anti-Obama rhetoric represents a recent coarsening of the public […]
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Senator Reid’s Odd Notion of Evil
“Evil” is a central concept for me. I named my blog about the need to fight evil. Two presidents in my lifetime have issued clarion calls about evil, and I think history may well ratify Bush’s usage as it already has ratified Reagan’s. If “evil” is to mean anything, it must be reserved for the […]
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A Center-Right Nation Balks at Obamacare
People intuitively understand that the "public option" is a first step toward a single-payer world in which the government directly controls one-sixth of the economy, and has no competitive incentive to reduce costs and improve service.