All Posts Tagged With: "Obamacare"

Wishful Thinking on Health Care

For a century the foundation of medicine in the United States has steadily shifted from cooperation and competition to compulsion and management through government power.

26Mar2010 | | 19 comments | Continued

ObamaCare and Unions

Last November 7, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3962, crafted by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and whimsically titled the Affordable Health Care for America Act (AHCAA). It was the House’s version of ObamaCare. American labor unions, whether representing government- or private-sector workers, enthusiastically endorsed the measure. Yet most unions have been effective at securing good [...]

24Mar2010 | | 1 comment | Continued

Will 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 | | 8 comments | Continued

How Can that Be?

The White House website’s summary of Barack Obama’s health insurance plan says these two things: New plans will have to offer preventive care and immunizations at no cost; and Nothing in the proposal forces anyone to change the insurance they have.  Period. Can both be true? What if you have a plan that doesn’t include [...]

22Feb2010 | | 2 comments | Continued

TGIF: Obama and the Public

Broken or not, government at the moment is not inspiring confidence in the majority of people. That’s good news for those who look to government for neither inspiration nor solutions (to problems it itself has created). There’s no more urgent task that to fan the flames of political cynicism, emphasizing that what’s wrong with health [...]

5Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Where’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 | | 1 comment | Continued

Obamacare 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 | | 4 comments | Continued

Senate 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 | | 0 comments | Continued

Big Business Goes Big for Health Care Reform

“What disturbs Americans of all ideological persuasions is the fear that almost everything, not just government, is fixed or manipulated by some powerful hidden hand,” Frank Rich wrote in the New York Times a few months ago. That manipulation should disturb us. But contrary to Rich, it is not the work of “corporatists” who have [...]

18Nov2009 | | 5 comments | Continued

ObamaCare: Status Quo on Steroids

Let’s begin by noting that the so-called health-insurance companies deserve little sympathy. As they exist today, they are very much creatures of the State. In fact, there’s a sense in which it can be said that if we didn’t have health-insurance companies, we wouldn’t need them. Economist William Niskanen writes, “We did not have a [...]

11Sep2009 | | 3 comments | Continued

TGIF – ObamaCare: Status Quo on Steroids

Let’s begin by noting that the so-called health-insurance companies deserve little sympathy. As they exist today, they are very much creatures of the State. In fact, there’s a sense in which it can be said that if we didn’t have health-insurance companies, we wouldn’t need them. Read the rest here.

11Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

TGIF: Obama's Impossible Healthcare Reform Promises

In his drive to “reform” health care — that is, redesign 18 percent of the U.S. economy — Barack Obama is clearly terrified that his mission will crash and burn if people think it will cost them their freedom of choice in doctors and insurance. He is surely convinced that this is what scuttled the [...]

19Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Obama’s Impossible Healthcare Reform Promises

In his drive to “reform” health care — that is, redesign 18 percent of the U.S. economy — Barack Obama is clearly terrified that his mission will crash and burn if people think it will cost them their freedom of choice in doctors and insurance. He is surely convinced that this is what scuttled the [...]

19Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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