All Posts Tagged With: "mandatory health insurance"
A Health Insurance Criminal Pleads His Case
If mandatory health insurance goes through, it will turn me into a criminal. I don’t have health insurance. I don’t want it. And I will refuse to buy it even though I can afford it. Before they lead me to the cell, perhaps the prisoner may be allowed to say a few words in his [...]
24Mar2010 | James L. Payne | 21 comments | ContinuedBig Insurance Wins One from Obama
Barack Obama this morning unveiled his plan for overhauling the health insurance industry in an effort to get the stalled legislative process going again. The bill was just posted on the White House website (Putting Americans in Control of Their Health Care” [!]). Here’s the first detail to jump out, according to the Wall Street [...]
22Feb2010 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedCoercion Is the Only Way to Ensure Health?
Aeon J. Skoble is a professor of philosophy and chair of the philosophy department at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. In his April 11 New York Times column, economist Paul Krugman discusses the minor trouble then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton got into when an anecdote she told about a woman who died because she didn’t have [...]
1Jun2008 | Aeon J. Skoble | 1 comment | ContinuedWHO’s Hidden Agenda
Twila Brase, R.N., is president of the Citizens’ Council on Health Care in St. Paul, Minnesota (www.cchcmin.org). The World Health Organization (WHO) didn’t blink twice before shooting down the United States’ world-class health-care system. In a recently released report, “The World Health Report 2000—Health Systems: Improving Performance,” the WHO ranked the overall performance of the [...]
1Dec2000 | Twila Brase | 0 comments | Continued-
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