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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Health care bill: fewer insured, higher premiums
Obama Care – more uninsured, higher premiums, writes economist Martin Feldstein in the Washington Post: A key feature of the House and Senate health bills would prevent insurance companies from denying coverage to anyone with preexisting conditions. The new coverage … Continue reading
Posted in Policy - National, PPC
Tagged death spiral, guaranteed issue, HR 3962, mandatory insurance, Massachusetts health, uninsured
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Will health care bill bring Canadian horror stories to U.S. patients?
The Independence Institute has two new videos in its series on Obama’s health care policy proposals (as proposed by Congressional Democrats). These are two testimonials from Canadian patients who suffered while waiting months and years for medical treatment. Is this … Continue reading
Health care bill HR 3962: Politicians shall control your medical care
David Harsanyi summarizes it nicely: You will, of course, need to be plastered to buy Pelosi’s fantastical proposition that 450,000 words of new regulations, rules, mandates, penalties, price controls, taxes and bureaucracy will have the transformative power to “provide affordable, … Continue reading
HR 3962: how the AMA, AARP, and insurers benefit
Dick Morris and Eileen McGann describe how the American Medical Association, the AARP, and health insurance companies, benefit from the House Health Reform Bill (HR 3962) at the expense of everyone else. (Well, except for politicians.) The AMA: Politicians promise … Continue reading
Posted in Policy - National
Tagged AARP, American Medical Association, HR 3962, rent seeking
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Pelosi health care bill & rationing: H1N1 vaccine an example
If you want a taste of what more politically-controlled medicine would look like, check out this story from MSNBC about how Wall Street executives have access while others wait. The Wall Street Journal also reports: The director of the Centers … Continue reading
Vaccine “Public Option Plan” Has Produced Shortages of Vaccines
[Originally published at John Goodman's health policy blog] With H1N1 flu vaccine shortages looming, now is a good time to reflect on the health care shortages, lack of innovation, and outflow of capital created when a public option health plan … Continue reading
Health care bill & the death of freedom
From the Washington Examimer: That American citizens should be fined or even put in federal prison for refusing to purchase government-approved health insurance is as un-American as any idea we can imagine. But such a mandate is the very heart … Continue reading
Dems renege on health care bill transparancy
From John Fund in the Wall Street Journal: Back in September, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters she was “absolutely” committed to having the final language of any health care bill posted on the Internet for 72 hours before a … Continue reading