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Myths, Lies and Stupidity About Health Care
President Barack Obama’s health care plan, we are told, will spend $1 trillion over the next 10 years. But since trillion is the new billion, Americans aren’t supposed to worry about that. Obama’s health care plan will cause employers to stop providing private health insurance for millions of employees and ...
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Massachusetts’ Health Care Reform: Be Careful What You Wish For
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts passed a first in the nation “universal” health care bill in 2006. Massachusetts’ health care plan includes an “individual mandate” and generous subsidies through a quasi-government health insurance plan known as “Commonwealth Care.” So how well are the Democrats in Massachusetts doing at controlling health care ...
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The Teacher Unions’ War Against Military Families
The Senate Armed Services Committee is considering a proposal to provide military families with tuition vouchers. The idea enjoys support in the military but the National Education Association (NEA) has mounted an attack in a letter to the Committee, part of its ongoing battle against educational choice. Both the NEA ...
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Will Cap and Trade Pass Congress?
The Volockh Conspiracy, June 23, 2009 The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on cap-and-trade this week. The bill seeks to lower US per capita cabon emissions to levels below those of the US colonial period. As I blogged four months ago: The goal is an 83% reduction in ...
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Health-Care Myths
Fox Business News, June 23, 2009 The Obama administration is now attempting the biggest overhaul of healthcare since Lyndon B. Johnson pushed through Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. But the health care reform debate is riddled with misleading myths taken as fact, myths that are torquing the debate beyond recognition, ...
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The president’s Trojan horse
During his recent speech to the American Medical Association, President Obama addressed what he called the “illegitimate concern” that “a public option is somehow a Trojan horse for a single-payer system.” Referring to such concerns, he added that “when you hear the naysayers claim that I’m trying to bring about ...
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“Districts of Choice” Program a Good Choice
California’s Districts of Choice program allows school boards to decide if their districts will accept students from outside their boundaries, giving families more options beyond the confines of their zip code. The program has been in place for 17 years but is set to expire at the end of June, ...
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Health-Reform Traps: Universal What?
THE rush to remake the 17 percent of America’s economy known as its health-care system is matched only by the muddle of the motivations driving it. Above all else, consider the confusion of health insurance with access to actual health care. The reality is that having insurance is not the ...
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Healthcare, part 1
What to look for in the Obamacare informercial on ABC this week 1. Why do we need healthcare reform? Why is it absolutely necessary to offer a public healthcare option? And why should the government be responsible (using taxpayer money) for organizing it? Proponents of the democrats’ quest to provide ...
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Public Option To Cut Health Costs? Medicare’s Record Says Dream On
“First, the rising cost of health care must be brought down.” That’s what President Obama recently declared when outlining the basic principles of his health care plan. His supporters have echoed his emphasis. The New York Times writes that, when it comes to health policy, “The president’s main focus is ...
Myths, Lies and Stupidity About Health Care
President Barack Obama’s health care plan, we are told, will spend $1 trillion over the next 10 years. But since trillion is the new billion, Americans aren’t supposed to worry about that. Obama’s health care plan will cause employers to stop providing private health insurance for millions of employees and ...
Massachusetts’ Health Care Reform: Be Careful What You Wish For
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts passed a first in the nation “universal” health care bill in 2006. Massachusetts’ health care plan includes an “individual mandate” and generous subsidies through a quasi-government health insurance plan known as “Commonwealth Care.” So how well are the Democrats in Massachusetts doing at controlling health care ...
The Teacher Unions’ War Against Military Families
The Senate Armed Services Committee is considering a proposal to provide military families with tuition vouchers. The idea enjoys support in the military but the National Education Association (NEA) has mounted an attack in a letter to the Committee, part of its ongoing battle against educational choice. Both the NEA ...
Will Cap and Trade Pass Congress?
The Volockh Conspiracy, June 23, 2009 The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on cap-and-trade this week. The bill seeks to lower US per capita cabon emissions to levels below those of the US colonial period. As I blogged four months ago: The goal is an 83% reduction in ...
Health-Care Myths
Fox Business News, June 23, 2009 The Obama administration is now attempting the biggest overhaul of healthcare since Lyndon B. Johnson pushed through Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. But the health care reform debate is riddled with misleading myths taken as fact, myths that are torquing the debate beyond recognition, ...
The president’s Trojan horse
During his recent speech to the American Medical Association, President Obama addressed what he called the “illegitimate concern” that “a public option is somehow a Trojan horse for a single-payer system.” Referring to such concerns, he added that “when you hear the naysayers claim that I’m trying to bring about ...
“Districts of Choice” Program a Good Choice
California’s Districts of Choice program allows school boards to decide if their districts will accept students from outside their boundaries, giving families more options beyond the confines of their zip code. The program has been in place for 17 years but is set to expire at the end of June, ...
Health-Reform Traps: Universal What?
THE rush to remake the 17 percent of America’s economy known as its health-care system is matched only by the muddle of the motivations driving it. Above all else, consider the confusion of health insurance with access to actual health care. The reality is that having insurance is not the ...
Healthcare, part 1
What to look for in the Obamacare informercial on ABC this week 1. Why do we need healthcare reform? Why is it absolutely necessary to offer a public healthcare option? And why should the government be responsible (using taxpayer money) for organizing it? Proponents of the democrats’ quest to provide ...
Public Option To Cut Health Costs? Medicare’s Record Says Dream On
“First, the rising cost of health care must be brought down.” That’s what President Obama recently declared when outlining the basic principles of his health care plan. His supporters have echoed his emphasis. The New York Times writes that, when it comes to health policy, “The president’s main focus is ...
