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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Little transparency in Democrat health care “reform”
A one-minute video shows the discrepency between their promises for transparency and how the House Bill and Senate bill have progressed: (Via Patients First) Similar Posts: Dems renege on health care bill transparancy Petition to Pres. Obama and Congress: Let … Continue reading
State governments ration “free” cancer screenings
When you empower government to provide “free” health care (paid by others through taxes), government gets to decide when it’s appropriate for you to receive it. Here’s yet another example from the Associated Press: …low-income women in at least 20 … Continue reading
Congressional Budget Office hides costs of health care bill
By not accounting for the cost to taxpayers of mandatory insurance, the Congressional Budget Office is hiding the true cost of the Senate health care “reform” bill. Michael Cannon at Cato writes that: CBO’s score of the Clinton health plan … Continue reading
Posted in Policy - National, PPC
Tagged Congressional Budget Office, HR 3590, mandatory insurance, politician credibility, taxes
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Health care “reform” is all politics now
Grace-Marie Turner cites a couple of good analysis in her National Review blog post: The health overhaul debate is no longer about policy; it’s all politics now. And the tone at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue is becoming increasingly desperate. … Continue reading
Medicare “buy in”: more deficits, higher premiums, & step toward single-payer
A Wall Street Journal editorial summarizes: [Harry Reid] is claiming that a Medicare “buy-in” for people from ages 55 to 64 has overcome the liberal-moderate impasse over the “public option.” But if anything, this gambit is an even faster road … Continue reading
Posted in Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP, PPC
Tagged crowd out, Harry Reid, HR 3590, Medicare, uninsured cost-shift
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Majority prefers “nothing” to Dems’ health “reform”
From James Taranto in the Wall Street Journal: the health-care ideas Congress is considering are so bad that inaction would be vastly preferable. Fox News.com reports that a majority of Americans in a new poll now agree with us: While … Continue reading
Harry Reid & Democrats’ health “reform” will enslave us
As you’ve probably heard, Senate Majority Leader Harry Read likens those who oppose the Democrats’ so-called health care “reform” as those who opposed the end of slavery: Melissa Clouthier points out the irony of this, as it is the Democrats’ … Continue reading
Free-markets: how to fix health care
From Reason.tv: Make no mistake about it. Health care reform is coming. But what’s the best way to fix our health care system, which is an inefficient, complicated mess of private actors, third-party payers, public subsidies, and innumerable state and federal … Continue reading
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Tagged free-market health care brief, health care video, laser-eye-surgery, patient-as-customer
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Proposed one-year moratorium on new Colorado insurance mandates
Remember, mandated benefits in insurance plans are hidden taxes. They force you to pay for benefits that you may not want or need, and effectively force you to subsidize other people’s insurance. From the Denver Business Journal: Colorado businesses could … Continue reading
Mandatory insurance is unconstitutional
Excerpts from a new article (its summary) co-authored by Randy E. Barnett, Professor of Legal Theory at Georgetown U.: An individual mandate to enter into a contract with or buy a particular product from a private party is literally unprecedented, … Continue reading
Posted in mandatory insurance, Policy - National, PPC
Tagged Constitution & health care, mandatory insurance
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