All Posts Tagged With: "public option"
Democrats 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 | ContinuedObama Visits Congress, Pushes Health Care
“After working through the weekend, the Senate will reconvene Monday for an eighth day of debate and potentially the first controversial amendment, addressing the issue of abortion coverage. After the abortion vote, expected Monday or Tuesday, the Senate could tackle another high-profile amendment: a bipartisan bid to allow the importation of prescription drugs from Canada [...]
7Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedCompetition
Give Me a Break! Competition by John Stossel John Stossel is the hosts of Stossel on Fox Business and the author of Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel—Why Everything You Know is Wrong. Copyright 2009 by JFS Productions, Inc. Distributed by Creators Syndicate, Inc. “Choice, competition, reducing costs—those are the things that [...]
23Oct2009 | John Stossel | 1 comment | ContinuedHealth Care’s Muddled Incentives
On the topic of health care, what empirical observations are reliable? Unfortunately, many “facts” come freighted with a great deal of ideological baggage. Those skeptical of markets, who favor a large role for government in health care, tend to emphasize statistics that disparage the American healthcare system. For supporters of markets, it is tempting to try to [...]
23Oct2009 | Arnold Kling | 15 comments | ContinuedGovernment's Track Record in the Insurance Business
Barack Obama and many others want the government to get into the health-insurance business. Very good. Is the government in any other kind of insurance? As a matter of fact, it is: flood insurance. It essentially has a monopoly. Here’s a Reuters story about the House last month extending the “troubled [i.e., broke] program” for [...]
13Aug2009 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedMore Demagogery in the Healthcare Debate
An argument floating around–I’ve heard Barack Obama and at least one journalist use it–says that opposition to the so-called public option for medical insurance betrays a lack of confidence in private enterprise. After all, if government is so inefficient, surely private insurance companies will beat it in the marketplace.Sheer demagoguery. Does it mean nothing that [...]
17Jul2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedKarl Rove on Health Care Reform and the Public Option
I meant to blog about this last week but I’m just now getting around to it. I understand the Karl Rove is a political consultant, and as such he is beholden to polling and focus grouping and highly prone to framing, triangulating, and outright prevaricating. But even judging him by the low standards of a [...]
16Jun2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 8 comments | Continued-
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