All Posts Tagged With: "health care"
National Health Care Passes 219-212
“House Democrats approved a far-reaching overhaul of the nation’s health system on Sunday, voting over unanimous Republican opposition to provide medical coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans after an epic political battle that could define the differences between the parties for years.” (New York Times, Monday) That’s all folks. FEE Timely Classic: “National [...]
22Mar2010 | Mike Van Winkle | 1 comment | ContinuedWill Medical “Reform” Cut Real Costs?
There is no possibility that the President’s plan will even remotely cut real costs. The true legacy of this bill will be to add costs in ways we hardly can imagine.
17Mar2010 | William L. Anderson | 7 comments | ContinuedThe Market Doesn’t Ration Health Care
Health care “reformers” say they have two objectives: to enable the uninsured and underinsured to consume more medical services than they consume now and to keep the prices of those services from rising, as they have been, faster than the prices of other goods and services. Unfortunately, Economics 101 tells us that to accomplish those [...]
24Feb2010 | Sheldon Richman | 9 comments | ContinuedThe Health Care Debate Was “Meaningful”?
Let’s give credit where credit is due. David Brooks does say one true thing in his New York Times column, “The Values Question”, on government health care reform: “The system after reform will look as it does today, only bigger and more expensive.” Brooks is certainly right that no “health care reform” proposal with any [...]
24Feb2010 | Charles Johnson | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Mandated Health Insurance Outrage
The most outrageous aspect of health care “reform” is the insurance mandate: Every individual will have to buy government-defined comprehensive medical coverage (if it isn’t provided by his employer)—or be fined. You must buy it. Who do these politicians think they are? For those who wonder by what authority the government can make us buy [...]
23Feb2010 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedHealth Care and Radical Monopoly
In a recent article for Tikkun, Dr. Arnold Relman argued that the versions of health care reform currently proposed by “progressives” all primarily involve financing health care and expanding coverage to the uninsured rather than addressing the way current models of service delivery make it so expensive. Editing out all the pro forma tut-tutting of [...]
23Feb2010 | Kevin A. Carson | 23 comments | ContinuedThe Personal Is the Political
As government’s role grows, more and more decisions that we think of as personal are becoming political.
11Feb2010 | Steven Horwitz | 21 comments | ContinuedWhere’s the Bipartisanship?
James Fallows had an interesting post yesterday called “Why bipartisanship can’t work.” Since it is a long post I’ll summarize the arguments as I see it: Party discipline is difficult in American Politics because candidates raise their own money and can take the party label without the approval of the party. (Academics call this a [...]
2Feb2010 | Mike Van Winkle | 1 comment | ContinuedHouse Democrats May Back Off on Public Insurance Plan
“Two House Democrats who favor a government insurance plan, a central element of health care legislation passed in their chamber, acknowledged Sunday it might have to be sacrificed as negotiators work out a final agreement with the Senate.”(AP, Sunday) Who says this isn’t the giving season. FEE Timely Classic: “The Return of Activist Government” by [...]
28Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedHealth Care Deal Constitutionality Challenged
“The top prosecutors in seven states are probing the constitutionality of a political deal that cut a funding break for Nebraska in order to pass a federal health care reform bill, South Carolina’s attorney general said Tuesday. Attorney General Henry McMaster said he and his counterparts in Alabama, Colorado, Michigan, North Dakota, Texas and Washington [...]
23Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 1 comment | ContinuedObamacare and the Legacy of Progressivism
In the end, the bill will be whatever the White House wants it to be. The ultimate legacy of “Progressivism” is that political debate no longer matters.
23Dec2009 | William L. Anderson | 4 comments | ContinuedDemocrats End Debate on Health Care
“The Democratic-controlled Senate, voting 60-40, swept aside Republican objections and moved to close off debate on health overhaul legislation, marking a milestone moment for President Barack Obama’s most pressing domestic initiative. “All 58 Democrats and two independents voted to approve the first — and most crucial — of three motions needed to break off action, [...]
21Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedCan We Afford to Avoid the Truth?
The Times is urging us in the name of “cost reduction” to accept a huge new government expense that will affect us all in ways we cannot imagine because the regime in power declares that it will cut costs. It must be so because, well, it must be so.
16Dec2009 | William L. Anderson | 4 comments | ContinuedPublic Support for Healthcare Reform Drops Even More
“A bare majority of Americans still believe government action is needed to control runaway health-care costs and expand coverage to the roughly 46 million people without insurance. But after a year of exhortation by President Obama and Democratic leaders and a high-octane national debate, there is minimal public enthusiasm for the kind of comprehensive changes [...]
16Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedHoward Dean: “Kill the Bill”
“This is essentially the collapse of health care reform in the United States Senate. And, honestly, the best thing to do right now is kill the Senate bill and go back to the House and start the reconciliation process, where you only need 51 votes and it would be a much simpler bill.” (Vermont Public [...]
16Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedSenate Push on Health Care Falling Short
“Senate Democratic leaders appeared poised Monday night to abandon efforts to create a government-run insurance safety net in their push for health-care reform, as they attempted to close ranks around a bill they hoped would win the backing of all 60 members of their caucus … Democratic negotiators had already disappointed liberal lawmakers by jettisoning [...]
15Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedSenate Compromise Scares Medical Professionals
“Industry groups representing doctors and hospitals attacked one of the alternatives in the deal, designed to take the place of a proposed government-run insurance program, in the hours after Senate leaders announced it Tuesday night. They argued that a plan by liberal Democrats to allow uninsured individuals as young as 55 to buy into Medicare [...]
10Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | Continued-
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