Wow, talking about not pulling the punches. The Heritage Foundation lays it on the line in response to the president claiming that his plan builds on a model of the reform package espoused by the Foundation. The Obama health-care law “builds” on the Heritage health reform model only in the sense that, say, a double-quarter-pounder [...]
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I love it when someone else says exactly what you’re thinking. That way, you can just quote that person and nobody is really mad at you. In an article published on Fox News the day of the health care “reform” vote, Cal Thomas posits the implausible: That Obamacare will spell disaster for the country. Highlights [...]
Think mandating health insurance coverage at the national level is the functional equivalent of states mandating that drivers carry auto insurance? Obama does. He’s wrong. Again. As Judson Berger of Fox News points out, there are many differences between mandated health insurance and auto insurance. Here are a few highlights: Auto insurance is avoidable – [...]
In a recent editorial, the Wall Street Journal hits the highlights of why allowing Uncle Sam to become Dr. Sam is an inherently flawed concept. As the Journal recognizes, a new Gov’t plan would become yet another middle-class entitlement (as if we don’t have enough already). So what’s wrong with entitlements? Nothing. It’s just that [...]
The ever increasing costs make the current system unsustainable, by any measure.
In another blow to the idea of universal health care coverage, states such as Washington are dropping plans to expand health insurance for kids. Today, about 76,000 children are uninsured in Washington, or about the same amount as in 2002. Story from Seattle Times. Sounds like virtually no progress has been made toward insuring all [...]
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