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No surprise in Massachusetts: Central planning still fails
The Dec. 11 Associated Press article about health care in Massachusetts illustrates why central economic planning will always fail. As Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek wrote: “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” Continue reading
Medicare head Donald Berwick: You’re a pawn
In the American Spectator David Catron points out a disturbing quote from Medicare & Medicaid Services head Donald Berwick is. Berwick’s view of rationing is, in fact, the opposite of [Paul] Ryan’s. The latter believes it should be driven by … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Berwick, economics, Frédéric Bastiat, Statism
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Donald Berwick’s Five-Year Plan v. the iPhone
Paul Howard and David Gratzer, MD write Last month, Apple released its new iPhone, a faster and more powerful version of its ever popular computer-phone. It’s a remarkable device – particularly remarkable given that its machine ancestors were large and … Continue reading
Obama’s Progressive Fatal Conceit
Writes George Will: Progressives are forever longing to replace the governance of people by the administration of things. Because they are entirely public-spirited, progressives volunteer to be the administrators, and to be as disinterested as the dickens. … Professor Obama, … Continue reading
Government-run health care erodes liberty forever
From Mark Steyn in the Orange County Register: [T]he governmentalization of health care is the fastest way to a permanent left-of-center political culture. It redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state in fundamental ways that make limited government … Continue reading
Health care bill, arbitrary power & dictatorship
From Duke Visiting Professor John David Lewis in Pajamas Media: The essence of a dictator’s method is not to write harsh laws and enforce them rigidly. The world’s most destructive thugs have wanted something different. They have wanted to impose … Continue reading
Health care bill HR 3962: Politicians shall control your medical care
David Harsanyi summarizes it nicely: You will, of course, need to be plastered to buy Pelosi’s fantastical proposition that 450,000 words of new regulations, rules, mandates, penalties, price controls, taxes and bureaucracy will have the transformative power to “provide affordable, … Continue reading
Senator laments lack of government dependence
Ensuring that our kids have enough to eat during summer months is critically important, especially during these tough economic times… Unfortunately, despite repeated efforts, the number of children participating in federally reimbursed summer nutrition programs in 2008 was the same … Continue reading
Bureaucrats get the best value for themselves, not you
In defense of government rationing of medical care, philosopher Peter Singer writes: The task of health care bureaucrats is then to get the best value for the resources they have been allocated. It is the familiar comparative exercise of getting … Continue reading
Stimulating Welfare (RMN)
The Rocky Mountain News has a good, and scary, critique of how Obama’s so-called “stimulus” package expands health care entitlements. Funny how this crisis brings on leviathan, as historian Robert Higgs has written. Here’s an excerpt: It would be bad … Continue reading
Posted in Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP, Policy - National, PPC
Tagged COBRA, Medicaid, Statism
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