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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Arguing for free-market health care
Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute summarizes the case for free-market health care. He concludes: The solution to this ongoing crisis is to recognize that the very idea of a “right” to health care is a perversion. There can … Continue reading
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Links to Denver Hands Off Health Care Rally coverage
Check out Ari Armstrong‘s post on the Denver Hands Off Health Care Rally, which contains a video of his talk and links to newspaper articles and other coverage. To be precise, “hands off health care” not only refers to proposed … Continue reading
Obama seeks executive power over Medicare, trump Congressional power
From James C. Capretta at The New Atlantis: the Obama administration delivered one of the more remarkable presidential power grabs seen in recent memory (the transmittal letter is here, and a section-by-section description of the proposal is available here). The … Continue reading
No compulsory charity for Obama Care’s phony reform
The Democrats’ proposals would “reform” nothing. Instead, they would entrench problems with the status quo, as economist Arnold Kling explains in “The Non-Debate over Non-Reform.” Consider the country’s total health care spending. Patients’ out-of-pocket spending accounts for only about 10 … Continue reading
Obama Care: Trojan Horse for Socialized Medicine
by Henry Payne for Reason. (via BigGovHealth) Similar Posts: Stossel, Sick in America, Part 4 State Attorneys General challenge Senator Nelson’s Nebraska bribe Pro-liberty reactions to Virginia health care lawsuit (Cuccinelli-v-Sebelius) Will health care bill bring Canadian horror stories to … Continue reading
Obama Care vs. choice, low costs, and quality
Grace Marie Turner makes some good points in a New York Post op-ed. Excerpt: Rhetoric: The president insisted in his news conference last night that “the bill I sign must also slow the growth of health-care costs in the long … Continue reading
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Jim DeMint’s “Health Care Freedom Plan”: not quite
Linn and Ari Armstrong offer a fine critique of Senator Jim DeMint’s (R, SC) proposed health care reform bill. Som exerpts: The plan contains some good ideas. It reduces political controls of insurance by allowing people to buy policies out … Continue reading
Let customers control the $$ & free-markets will cure health care
So says Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute in a recent Investor’s Business Daily op-ed: Let individuals control their health care dollars, and free them to choose from a wide variety of health plans and providers. If Congress takes those … Continue reading
Bureaucrats get the best value for themselves, not you
In defense of government rationing of medical care, philosopher Peter Singer writes: The task of health care bureaucrats is then to get the best value for the resources they have been allocated. It is the familiar comparative exercise of getting … Continue reading
Perils of Obamacare: The Three Big Lies
Writes Cato‘s Michael Tanner in the New York Post: Lie #1: “If you like your current health-care plan, you can keep it.” Lie #2: “You will pay less.” Lie #3: “Quality will improve.” Read the whole thing here. See also … Continue reading
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