Jacon Sullum explains at Reason.com:
"We allow the insurance industry to run wild in this country," President Obama declared on Monday. "We can't have a system that works better for the insurance companies than it does for the American people."
Yet Obama's plan to tame health insurers would boost their business, ...
Paul Hsieh, M.D. writes:
The key is Obama’s declaration, “I don’t know how this plays politically, but I know it’s right.” Ultimately, Obama and his liberal base believe that government-guaranteed health care is a “moral imperative” — i.e., “it’s right.” And that will also be the key to ...
From Intrade.com:
'Obamacare' health care reform (see contract rules*) to become law before midnight ET 30 Jun 2010:
I think this chart is set up to update automatically. If not, click here or here. If anyone has a reference to how accurate InTrade's prediction markets are, do link them in ...
[The latest news looks like the House of Representatives will soon vote on the Senate health care bill or a "smaller bill." Make sure you tell your representative what you think via Congress.org]
From Americans for Prosperity:
Tracy Walsh survived her fight with breast cancer because of early detection. The testing ...
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. ...
he Wall Street Journal reminds us:
Natural experiments are rare in politics, but few are as instructive as the prototype for ObamaCare that Massachusetts set in motion in 2006. The bills for "universal coverage" are now coming due, and it appears the state political class is prepared to ...
Linda Gorman, director of the Independent Institute's Health Care Policy Center, summarizes this bill and how it's bad for Coloradans. Here's a list of her main points:
What the Bill Does: Gives the Executive Director of Health Care Policy and Financing the power to create a database to collect and ...
Linda Gorman, Director of the Independence Institute's Health Care Policy Center explains why Colorado House Bill 1008 is a bad idea:
House Bill 1008 would make it illegal in Colorado for insurance companies selling accident, sickness, or health insurance to charge men and women different prices for the same ...
Writes Paul Hsieh, M.D. in Pajamas Media:
Controls breed more controls. The seemingly innocuous “reform” of requiring insurers to cover all pre-existing conditions would merely set the stage for ever-tightening controls until liberal Democrats achieved their long-held dream of a complete government takeover of health care — ...
Keith Hennessey reviews the disagreement between Paul Krugman (on one side) and Rep. Paul Ryan, New Gingrich, and John Goodman (on the other) about how to change Medicare so it does not bankrupt the country. How much is Medicare spending? Consider what Hennessey points out:
The policy reality is that if ...
