Here's a summary of arguments against so-called health care "reform," specifically, the Senate Bill, HR 3590. It might be useful when contacting a member of Congress (e.g., those on the fence). The bracketed numbers refer to the reference list at the end. (To keep your e-mail short, you can omit ...
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Summary of arguments against health care "reform" (& for free-market medicine)
For the latest in political machinations:
Google News search results on "health care bill."
Politico's "Live Pulse: Breaking news from the health care fight"
Washington Times' politics section
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First, president Obama on reconciliation in 2005. Just replace "TANF program" with "health care", "health care policy", "health insurance regulations," etc:
The TANF program affects millions of American children and families and deserves a full and fair debate. Under the rules, the reconciliation process does not permit that debate. ...
First the mandatory insurance, from the Institute for Health Freedom:
(Feb. 23, 2010)—President Obama’s nationalized mandatory health-insurance proposal (released yesterday, 2/22) puts American families and small-business owners under the control of Big Brother regarding health-insurance coverage decisions.
The proposal requires Americans to buy federally ...
Some reactions to president Obama's health care reform proposal released February 22, 2010:
Keith Hennessey has a summary and analysis of possible political strategies behind it:
Somebody in the Administration put a lot of work into this proposal. It is extremely detailed, and it reads like a best effort to find ...
Last week the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Newt Gingrich and John Goodman titled "Ten GOP Health Ideas for Obama." John Goodman is a great resource on health care policy, and I read his blog regularly. But this article is one example of how Republicans (given the article's ...
The Denver Post reports:
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is pressing colleagues to use a procedural tool known as reconciliation to pass health-reform legislation — and to include the controversial public-insurance option in the bill. ...
"Much of the public identifies a public option as the key component of health care ...
The Denver Business Journal reports:
A recent salvo against the insurance industry came in a missive from U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey, D-Colorado. From an email her office sent out Monday:
“For too many years the health insurance industry has been allowed to fix prices, collude with each other and wield monopoly control ...
Paul Hsieh, M.D. explains in the Daily Camera (Boulder). Here are the opening paragraphs:
Boulder`s Congressman Jared Polis recently made national headlines when he and fellow first-term Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) teamed up to petition the U.S. Senate to include the so-called "public option" in its next version of health care ...
