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Nanny state expansion passes in House
The U.S. House voted to pass a bill to expand eligibility for the State Health Insurance Program. Having government tax citizens to provide health insurance for kids is great way to build allegiance to the state, and hence an … Continue reading
Tom Daschle’s High Court of Health
In the Washington Times, Robert Moffit sums up the implications of Daschle’s proposed Federal Health Board: “Details kill.” That’s Tom Daschle, President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee for secretary of health and human services and the nation’s new “health-care czar,” explaining to … Continue reading
Universal healthcare and the waistline police
Imagine a country where the government regularly checks the waistlines of citizens over age 40. Anyone deemed too fat would be required to undergo diet counseling. Those who fail to lose sufficient weight could face further “reeducation” and their communities … Continue reading
Government health insurance: a political power grab
From Paul Starr’s The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry (Basic Books, New York. 1982. P. 235). “Whoever provides medical care or pays the costs of illness stands … Continue reading
The Arrogance and Elitism of Government Health Care and Schools
On buying health insurance directly from an insurance company instead of through one’s employer, ABC News Medical Editor Dr. Tim Johnson states: The idea that individuals are going to have enough knowledge and enough savvy and enough insight and, frankly, … Continue reading
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Government health insurance builds state allegiance
In his review of John E. Murray’s Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds, George C. Leef writes: Murray points to an important subtext in the Progressive case. One reason Bismarck had worked so hard for … Continue reading
Does the president “manage the economy”?
Apparently some people think that “managing the economy”* is a presidential responsibility. From Reuters/Zogby: McCain now has a 9-point edge, 49 percent to 40 percent, over Obama on the critical question of who would be the best manager of the economy … Continue reading
SCHIP director: SCHIP lacks “actual evidence of the benefits for children”
Via Michael Cannon at Cato-at-Liberty: Like other advocates for children’s health, I have an almost religious conviction that the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is effective public policy. … Although I have no empirical evidence to support the assertion … Continue reading