Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
From the Washington Post's Breaking News Blog:
Virginia's Democratic-controlled state Senate passed measures Monday that would make it illegal to require individuals to purchase health insurance, a direct challenge to the party's efforts in Washington to reform health care. ...
Each of three similar bills that passed the state Senate on Monday ...
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
Originally published in the Aurora Daily Sentinel, January 29th, 2010. This version has links to references.
Why we're "crazy" about health care choice
By Brian T. Schwartz and Linda Gorman
Sentinel Editor Dave Perry dismisses the Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative as "crazy" and says its supporters "clearly have lost" their ...
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
From the AP:
Opponents of the health care reform bill are not giving up the fight, and some think their last, best hope to halt the legislation lies not in the Capitol but in the court across the street.
A small but vocal contingent of legal scholars and many Republican lawmakers argues ...
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
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From the Denver Post:
Coloradans will likely be asked in November to blunt the impact of federal health-insurance reform with a state constitutional amendment that would attempt to undo some of what Congress is trying to ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
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 is that the private-sector mandates accounted for around 60 percent of ...
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Saturday, December 12th, 2009
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, not just in scope but in kind, and unconstitutional either ...
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Writes Cato's Michael Cannon:
Amid double-digit unemployment, a record $1.6 trillion federal deficit and a national debt projected to double in 10 years, U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., voted to bring to the floor of the Senate a health care overhaul with so many job-killing tax increases that it’s hard to ...
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
The Institute for Health Freedom advises you to contact your Senator today about tomorrow's vote "on a motion to proceed" on Harry Reid's health care bill (Sat. Nov 21). There are many reasons not to like this bill. The Institute summarizes:
The bill would (among many other provisions):
require nearly every ...
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
Dr. Paul Hsieh has a great article in the Washington Examiner about HR 3962 and mandatory health insurance. It begins:
Suppose the mafia came to your town and forced everyone to purchase all their meals at mob-approved restaurants. The mafia would also select the menu items.
If you liked broccoli but their ...
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Friday, November 13th, 2009
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 would start immediately, and the premium could not reflect the individual's ...
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