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One of my favorites, Grace-Marie Turner, addresses Obamacare: The American people figured out very early in the health reform debate that you can’t create a new entitlement that finances health insurance for 30 million…
Read MoreIn a relatively short post titled “Mandates vs. Free-Riders,” Health Care policy expert John Goodman does what very few Republican Party elected officials do – he explains the solution to an important current policy…
Read MoreMike Shedlock’s latest column is worth reading (his nickname is ‘Mish’): Here is an interesting email from reader “George” on his experiences with Romneycare. Hello Mish, Here is my personal experience with socialized medical…
Read MoreLinks to two good health care articles follow. First, from Heritage: Critics Are Wrong: Conservatives Have a Plan for Health Reform Following last week’s Supreme Court arguments, supporters of the President’s health care law…
Read MoreIt’s a long article but if you want to understand the evolution of and problem with the individual insurance mandate, it’s worth your time. As a bonus, you’ll read yet another reason why Mitt…
Read MoreIn 2002 I penned a column about the health care issue during the Illinois governor campaign – and four year later I re-used the quotes from it because they still were the best I’d…
Read MoreFrom Richard A. Epstein: If Congress can regulate health care, it can regulate everything under the sun. As everyone knows, the dispute over the individual mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act…
Read MoreA friend out east brought this to my attention – it’s linked at the Cato Institute’s website here. It’s 7 minutes – but it makes the point brilliantly. To learn more about the very…
Read MoreIf John Goodman is right – and I suspect he is – it’s another HUGE example of how government screws up almost everything massively: “How many people do you know who pay three health…
Read MoreCourt challenges will cast critical eye at constitutionality By J. Matt Barber The Washington Times Obamacare is like turnip greens: bitter and hard to swallow, but Mommy made you choke them down anyway. The…
Read MoreFor years this column has been pleading with Republican elected officials and candidates to do a much better and more thorough job of engaging the public. Too few of them go beyond shallow mail,…
Read MoreDuring the many months of debate over health care emanating from Washington, D.C., many Americans had the opportunity to hear from their elected officials about the competing health care reform ideas. There’s a great…
Read MoreThose of us who are old enough remember the attempt by the Clinton Administration to win support for what was called “HillaryCare” back in the early 1990s. It failed, and many people cited that…
Read MoreYesterday was big. It was one of those policy-meets-politics days when Americans know what’s happening. Like a bridge collapsing in Minnesota, people found out quickly the events of the day despite the countless news items and life matters competing for their attention.
Read MoreIf “HillaryCare” in the early 1990s was the nation’s first health care war, we’re well into the second war with ObamaCare 2009.
As I noted here, and as commentary and news consumers across the nation are fully aware, the battle is fully engaged by both sides: those who want to increase government’s role, and those who want consumers to be in charge.
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