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Did You Hear About Anthem Blue Cross Cutting Premiums 20 Percent?

Probably not. But it’s just as accurate as recent headlines trumpeting a 39 percent increase for individual policyholders. The insurer’s letter to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, describes a wide range of premium changes, from a reduction of 20 percent to an increase of 35 percent, after ...
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Top Canadian Politician Chooses U.S. Health Care

Heartland Institute, March 1, 2010 Heartland Institute “[Premier Williams] is a medical tourist; he went where he obviously felt he would get the best treatment and where he would not have to wait. He did not follow [political film documentarian] Michael Moore’s advice. He came here because in the United ...
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Health reform plans represent financial malpractice

Detroit News, February 27, 2010 President Barack Obama has made it clear that reducing the cost of care is one of the primary goals of his reform effort, a point he emphasized at Thursday’s health care summit. And yet, according to a recent report from the Department of Health and ...
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Harkin’s Health Care Summit Non-Sequitur

One of the great things about the health summit was getting to witness certain members’ rhetorical skills and getting to hear how they think about things. One of the most revealing comments was made by Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), who lamented that people whose medical bills are higher have to ...
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Summit Standoff

Galen Institute, February 26, 2010 INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SYSTEMS Why Canadian Premier Seeks Health Care in U.S. Sally C. Pipes, Pacific Research Institute San Francisco Chronicle, 02/25/10 Danny Williams, the premier of the Canadian province of Newfoundland, traveled to the U.S. earlier this month to undergo heart valve surgery at Mount ...
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Half-Time Report

This was evident right away, when Sen. Mitch McConnell handed the floor over to Sen. Lamar Alexander for opening Republican remarks — apparently without the president’s prior knowledge or permission — and Alexander, a former governor and presidential candidate, proceeded to look the president directly in the eye, at eye-level, ...
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Strickland Aims To Require Voter Approval Before Making Health Care Mandatory

KHTS Hometown Station, February 25, 2010 This morning State Senator Tony Strickland proposed Senate Constitutional Amendment 29, which if passed will require voter approval of any state or federal measure implementing a healthcare program that: Requires individuals to obtain health coverage; Requires individuals to guarantee issuance of health coverage; Creates ...
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Health Care Summit: Pipes sees no lasting impact

Washington D.C. Examiner, February 25, 2010 To the surprise of virtually no one, President Obama’s health reform summit did little to change the course of the healthcare debate. Although the president claimed that he was interested in incorporating Republican ideas into his reform plan, he acknowledged that he didn’t know ...
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It’s Summit Day in Washington

Of course, there will be no grand reopening, no joyful children, and no bands, just the same old Obamacare — which is not something Americans would get to choose whether to buy so much as it would be forced down their throats by any means possible, including via “budget reconciliation” ...
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Why Canadian premier seeks health care in U.S.

San Francisco Chronicle, February 25, 2010 The Greeneville Sun, February 22, 2010 Danny Williams, the premier of the Canadian province of Newfoundland, traveled to the United States earlier this month to undergo heart valve surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami. With his trip, Williams joined a long list ...
Health Care

Did You Hear About Anthem Blue Cross Cutting Premiums 20 Percent?

Probably not. But it’s just as accurate as recent headlines trumpeting a 39 percent increase for individual policyholders. The insurer’s letter to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, describes a wide range of premium changes, from a reduction of 20 percent to an increase of 35 percent, after ...
Commentary

Top Canadian Politician Chooses U.S. Health Care

Heartland Institute, March 1, 2010 Heartland Institute “[Premier Williams] is a medical tourist; he went where he obviously felt he would get the best treatment and where he would not have to wait. He did not follow [political film documentarian] Michael Moore’s advice. He came here because in the United ...
Commentary

Health reform plans represent financial malpractice

Detroit News, February 27, 2010 President Barack Obama has made it clear that reducing the cost of care is one of the primary goals of his reform effort, a point he emphasized at Thursday’s health care summit. And yet, according to a recent report from the Department of Health and ...
Commentary

Harkin’s Health Care Summit Non-Sequitur

One of the great things about the health summit was getting to witness certain members’ rhetorical skills and getting to hear how they think about things. One of the most revealing comments was made by Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), who lamented that people whose medical bills are higher have to ...
Commentary

Summit Standoff

Galen Institute, February 26, 2010 INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SYSTEMS Why Canadian Premier Seeks Health Care in U.S. Sally C. Pipes, Pacific Research Institute San Francisco Chronicle, 02/25/10 Danny Williams, the premier of the Canadian province of Newfoundland, traveled to the U.S. earlier this month to undergo heart valve surgery at Mount ...
Commentary

Half-Time Report

This was evident right away, when Sen. Mitch McConnell handed the floor over to Sen. Lamar Alexander for opening Republican remarks — apparently without the president’s prior knowledge or permission — and Alexander, a former governor and presidential candidate, proceeded to look the president directly in the eye, at eye-level, ...
Commentary

Strickland Aims To Require Voter Approval Before Making Health Care Mandatory

KHTS Hometown Station, February 25, 2010 This morning State Senator Tony Strickland proposed Senate Constitutional Amendment 29, which if passed will require voter approval of any state or federal measure implementing a healthcare program that: Requires individuals to obtain health coverage; Requires individuals to guarantee issuance of health coverage; Creates ...
Commentary

Health Care Summit: Pipes sees no lasting impact

Washington D.C. Examiner, February 25, 2010 To the surprise of virtually no one, President Obama’s health reform summit did little to change the course of the healthcare debate. Although the president claimed that he was interested in incorporating Republican ideas into his reform plan, he acknowledged that he didn’t know ...
Commentary

It’s Summit Day in Washington

Of course, there will be no grand reopening, no joyful children, and no bands, just the same old Obamacare — which is not something Americans would get to choose whether to buy so much as it would be forced down their throats by any means possible, including via “budget reconciliation” ...
Commentary

Why Canadian premier seeks health care in U.S.

San Francisco Chronicle, February 25, 2010 The Greeneville Sun, February 22, 2010 Danny Williams, the premier of the Canadian province of Newfoundland, traveled to the United States earlier this month to undergo heart valve surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami. With his trip, Williams joined a long list ...
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