Medicaid
Health Care
Red Pill, Blue Pill, Better Not, Get Ill
Does he really think it’s that simple? Red pill versus blue pill? What does he think this is, Keanu Reeves trying to figure out what the Matrix is all about? Does he have the slightest idea how complex the U.S. Pharmacopeia is? The answer is clearly “no.” He also recycles ...
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Haste makes waste has never been truer in terms of health-care reform
Talk about crazy ideas. The NFL wants to try out a new concept during the pre-season. When the Broncos and Raiders play in Oakland, the referees will wear Raider caps and will be chosen from a pool of former and current members of the Raiders organization who have given verbal ...
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Expanded Government — and No More Tonsil Theft?
In his televised press conference on Wednesday evening, President Obama said three separate times that he was being “honest” with the American people. So we know he was telling the truth. Therefore, we know that we can take the president at his word when he said: If you already have ...
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MSNBC: The Left Rejects Free-Market Solutions to Healthcare
NewsReal.com, July 22, 2009 Filling in for Keith Olbermann yesterday on MSNBC’s Countdown program, guest host David Shuster chastised Republicans for having no plan “to contain exploding healthcare costs.” So busy was Shuster smirking and sneering (like Olbermann) over the Republicans’ alleged indifference to those costs, that he neglected to ...
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Not Ready for the Big Leagues
Obamacare would look like Obama’s first pitch. Ideally, our health-care system would remind one of a major-league fastball: crisp, efficient in its delivery, on-target, hitting the catcher’s mitt with a pop. Our current health-care system, burdened with too many middlemen and too little competition and choice, is more like a ...
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Pacific Research Institute Releases State Rankings on Health Ownership
North Dakota Comes Out on Top, New York Finishes Last for the Third Straight Year San Francisco, July 21, 2009 – Americans continue to lack the basic freedom to make their own health care decisions according to the third edition of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, an annual report ...
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U.S. Index of Health Ownership: 3rd Edition
North Dakota Comes Out on Top, New York Finishes Last for the Third Straight Year Americans continue to lack the basic freedom to make their own health care decisions according to this third edition of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, an annual report by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI). ...
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‘Reform’ Will Cost Us More For Less
New York Post, July 20, 2009 State Policy Network, July 22, 2009 Health care reform is turning into the ultimate bait and switch. Candidate Barack Obama promised Americans savings of $2,500, expanded coverage and no generalized tax increase in the form of an individual mandate. Yet President Obama is endorsing ...
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Why not try ownership?
Reform bill too ambitious for real problem America does not face a health care crisis. America faces a manageable challenge — how to help a relatively small share of the population purchase health insurance. ObamaCare is too big a solution chasing too small a problem — like hunting quail with ...
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Government Care Costs More
The testimony by Congressional Budget Office chief Douglas Elmendorf that the health-care legislation in Congress “significantly expands” costs shocked Capitol Hill. Yet the evidence shows that government-run care has always been more costly than private-sector care. In claiming that the solution to skyrocketing health costs is more government-run care, President ...
Red Pill, Blue Pill, Better Not, Get Ill
Does he really think it’s that simple? Red pill versus blue pill? What does he think this is, Keanu Reeves trying to figure out what the Matrix is all about? Does he have the slightest idea how complex the U.S. Pharmacopeia is? The answer is clearly “no.” He also recycles ...
Haste makes waste has never been truer in terms of health-care reform
Talk about crazy ideas. The NFL wants to try out a new concept during the pre-season. When the Broncos and Raiders play in Oakland, the referees will wear Raider caps and will be chosen from a pool of former and current members of the Raiders organization who have given verbal ...
Expanded Government — and No More Tonsil Theft?
In his televised press conference on Wednesday evening, President Obama said three separate times that he was being “honest” with the American people. So we know he was telling the truth. Therefore, we know that we can take the president at his word when he said: If you already have ...
MSNBC: The Left Rejects Free-Market Solutions to Healthcare
NewsReal.com, July 22, 2009 Filling in for Keith Olbermann yesterday on MSNBC’s Countdown program, guest host David Shuster chastised Republicans for having no plan “to contain exploding healthcare costs.” So busy was Shuster smirking and sneering (like Olbermann) over the Republicans’ alleged indifference to those costs, that he neglected to ...
Not Ready for the Big Leagues
Obamacare would look like Obama’s first pitch. Ideally, our health-care system would remind one of a major-league fastball: crisp, efficient in its delivery, on-target, hitting the catcher’s mitt with a pop. Our current health-care system, burdened with too many middlemen and too little competition and choice, is more like a ...
Pacific Research Institute Releases State Rankings on Health Ownership
North Dakota Comes Out on Top, New York Finishes Last for the Third Straight Year San Francisco, July 21, 2009 – Americans continue to lack the basic freedom to make their own health care decisions according to the third edition of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, an annual report ...
U.S. Index of Health Ownership: 3rd Edition
North Dakota Comes Out on Top, New York Finishes Last for the Third Straight Year Americans continue to lack the basic freedom to make their own health care decisions according to this third edition of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, an annual report by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI). ...
‘Reform’ Will Cost Us More For Less
New York Post, July 20, 2009 State Policy Network, July 22, 2009 Health care reform is turning into the ultimate bait and switch. Candidate Barack Obama promised Americans savings of $2,500, expanded coverage and no generalized tax increase in the form of an individual mandate. Yet President Obama is endorsing ...
Why not try ownership?
Reform bill too ambitious for real problem America does not face a health care crisis. America faces a manageable challenge — how to help a relatively small share of the population purchase health insurance. ObamaCare is too big a solution chasing too small a problem — like hunting quail with ...
Government Care Costs More
The testimony by Congressional Budget Office chief Douglas Elmendorf that the health-care legislation in Congress “significantly expands” costs shocked Capitol Hill. Yet the evidence shows that government-run care has always been more costly than private-sector care. In claiming that the solution to skyrocketing health costs is more government-run care, President ...
