Michael Tanner at Cato summarizes:
Congressional Democrats received another $68 million from unions in 2008, and $21 million more so far this year. And that doesn't count the value of "in kind" contributions like phone banks, poll volunteers and independent advertising.
Looks like the unions are getting their money's worth — with ...
Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute has a well-documented article at Sphere explaining some false claims about of the looming health care "reform" (HR 3590)
Health care reform will reduce your insurance premiums.
Middle-class taxes won't be raised.
You can keep your current insurance
It will only cost $848 billion. (As if that would ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jeff Scialabba at the Ayn Rand Institute has written a two-part blog post on how HR 3962 would punish medical innovation. Part one is about the benefits of medical devices and the cost of bringing them to market. It begins:
America is the world leader in medical device innovation, producing more ...
Pajamas Media was kind enough to publish my article about the Democrats' "Bizarro" health care reform. Here's the first few paragraphs:
Expect less, pay more. It’s not the slogan for some “Bizarro World” Target store in a comic book; it’s an accurate slogan for congressional Democrats’ health care “reform” proposals. They ...
At times I find it difficult to distinguish between a politician and a user, someone who habitually treats others as if they were instruments or tools for their own ends. Their policies imply that other people exist merely for the sake of paying for their great ideas. Such politicians or ...
the Cato Institute points out three "irrefutable facts" about the Baucus health care bill:
The real cost of the bill is in excess of $2 trillion.
The bill contains an enormous middle-class tax hike.
The bill creates a national ID program.
Read the whole post: Three Irrefutable Facts About the Baucus Bill.
Some links to good articles on this:
Sorry, O: It Is a Tax, Michael Tanner, Cato
Health 'Reform' Is Income Redistribution, Michael Leavitt, Al Hubbard and Keith Hennessey, Wall Street Journal (via FIRM)
Nobody Considers Health Insurance Mandates a Tax? Really??, Michael Cannon. ... Except for Obama’s National Economic Council chair, Obama’s appointee ...
