corner.nationalreview.com - 3/9/2009
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Last week's health-care summit made clear that, as far as the president is concerned, the question is not whether the U.S. will enact universal coverage but how.
When Obama gets it enacted, most historians will revere him as the president who finally dragged barbaric Americans into the ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 3/10/2009
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Ezra Klein writes that Republicans are drawing the
lines of opposition to the progressive health care agenda...
in pretty narrow terms : Does that matter? It’s hard to say. Rhetorically, the GOP has staked out a very narrow corner of ...
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Is Switzerland a Model of Health Care Compromise?
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Is Switzerland a Model of Health Care Compromise?
Matthew Yglesias —
... When I was in Switzerland, I learned a bit about their health care system. In essence, it looked like the plan Democrats were talking about on the campaign trail but without the public option. And that, it seems to me, would be compatible with what the Republicans are saying here. And just in time, Regina Herzlinger from the Manhattan Institute chimes in at the Corner in praise of Switzerland: ...
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Maggie's Farm —
... On the road to serfdom. One quote:
...not only are the President’s naive and utopian fiscal policies exacerbating an already parlous economic situation: his starry-eyed understanding of foreign relations is set to compromise America’s defense capabilities at the very moment when other parts of the world–Iran, Russia, China–are struggling madly to upgrade their military forces.
A simple alternative to socialized medicine. NRO
A Supreme decision which will harm patients ...
They Were Expendable
Cold Fury —
... of service-related injuries with private insurance. …” Let’s see. The same administration that wants to give tens of billions of dollars to GM, Citigroup, AIG, and a host of other banks and manufacturers wants men and women injured in service to their country to pay for the medical care that arises from these injuries? In what universe does Shinseki and the Obama administration live, anyway? And they tell us that government health care won’t lead to rationing? Right. We need something like this : There is only one viable Republican solution: A consumer-driven system that ...
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