Tag Archives: persuasive quotes

White House economist: third-party payment increases health care spending

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Brian Schwartz

Last week I noted that President Obama does not know what health insurance is, and decries real insurance while praising prepaid health plans masquerading as insurance.  I also posted about how ObamaCare, HR 3590, threatens real insurance policies, that is, … Continue reading →

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A Democrat’s case for opposing Obama Care

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Brian Schwartz

Michael Cannon at Cato pulls some choice quotes from David Goldhill’s piece in the Huffington Post, includes a video of Goldhill interviewed by Cato, and links to Goldhills’s eye-opening Atlantic Monthly article.  Check it out at Cato-at-Liberty: David Goldhill: “A … Continue reading →

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The conceit of Obama’s insurance price controls

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Brian Schwartz

President Obama has wants empower the federal government to forbid insurers from increasing their premiums more than the authorities allow.  Two reactions to this part of the president’s health care proposal: Don Boudreaux, Cafe Hayek on price controls: What cool … Continue reading →

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Joe Lieberman on the public health plan

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

“It doesn’t help one poor person get insurance who doesn’t have it now. It doesn’t compel one insurance company to provide insurance to somebody who has an illness.  And . . . it doesn’t do anything to reduce the cost … Continue reading →

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Harvard Medical School Dean: Health “reform” a failure

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

Some choice words from Jeffrey S. Flier, Dean of Harvard’s Medical School.  Some excerpts from his Wall Street Journal article: Our health-care system suffers from problems of cost, access and quality, and needs major reform. Tax policy drives employment-based insurance; … Continue reading →

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Obama vs. his economic advisors, Part II

Posted on December 18, 2008 by Brian Schwartz

In a previous post I discussed how Obama’s advisor Jason Furman is critical of employer-sponsored insurance, even though Obama wants to “strengthen it.”   In this Cato Institute podcast Michael Cannon talks about how other advisors have been critical of Obama’s … Continue reading →

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Obama vs. his economic advisors, Part I

Posted on December 17, 2008 by Brian Schwartz

Barack Obama says his health care reform “strengthens employer–based coverage.”  But the government’s favoring employer-based coverage has had terrible consequences.  Just ask Jason Furman, one of Obama’s economic advisors.  In an article published in Health Affairs he wrote: The tax … Continue reading →

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