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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Soaring ObamaCare costs break the bank
Key points about HR 3590 from Grace-Marie Turner in Soaring ObamaCare costs break the bank: “The Congressional Budget Office recently issued a revised estimate showing the law will cost $115 billion more than it projected the week before it was … Continue reading
Health care: both an entitlement & an individual responsibility?
Is it possible for health care to be both something you’re entitled to and an individual responsibility? I think not. If you’re “entitled” to health care, then other people are responsible for providing it to you. But if you are … Continue reading
ObamaCare unconstitutional in ways New Deal is not
From Dave Kopel: Let’s begin by getting rid of the red herring that questioning the constitutionality of Obamacare requires denying the constitutionality of the New Deal and the Great Society. Orin asks: In your view, which of the following federal programs … Continue reading
Legal challenges to ObamaCare – updates
A couple of updates on the legal challenged to ObamaCare health control legislation (HR 3590): The first is by Ilya Shapiro at Cato:Update on the Legal Challenges to Obamacare. A particularly notable section: At least one enterprising analyst [Greg Scandlen] … Continue reading
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Tagged HR 3590, ObamaCare lawsuit, ObamaCare severability, repeal ObamaCare
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More Colorado employers are offering HSAs
The Denver Business Journal reports: Twenty-seven percent of Colorado and Wyoming employers surveyed by MSEC recently said they now offer Health Spending Accounts as an option for their employee benefit plans, up from 21 percent in 2009, 18 percent in … Continue reading
Mandatory insurance violates your medical privacy
Dave Kopel notes: Among the lawsuits filed against Obamacare is a class action in the Southern District of Mississippi. Class representatives, for residents of Mississippi who do not wish to be subject to the health insurance purchase mandate, include State Senator Chris McDaniel … Continue reading
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Tagged mandatory insurance, medical privacy, ObamaCare lawsuit
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ObamaCare and increased wait times
Peter Suderman at Reason notes that waiting times for physicians increased in Massachusetts increased after politicians passed health control legislation there. Don’t be surprised if the same happens across the country. Quoted in The Hill, The Chief Actuary at the … Continue reading
The ethics of so-called health care “reform”
Jason Sagall at Americans for Free Choice in Medicine has written an excellent health care parable showing that politically-controlled health care turns ” turns each person into, at once, prey and predator, victim and thief.” It begins: Your wife is … Continue reading
“Public option”: kept alive by health control bill?
[Post updated in response to Max's comment. Thanks!] The San Francisco Examiner reports: Remember when Obama and congressional Democrats made a big show of dropping the public option government insurance program that was supposedly going to give private insurers competition … Continue reading
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Tagged crowd out, HR 3590, politician credibility, public option
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ObamaCare: Insurers Need Permission to Survive; Citizens, to Live
This is the provocative title of Dr. Paul Hsieh‘s recent article in Pajamas Media. It begins: Suppose our government declared that everyone had the “right” to a nice steak dinner. The government would require restaurants to sell $50 steak dinners … Continue reading