slate.com - 4/14/2009
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My colleague Timothy Noah argues that a) Congress "must" enact health care reform because "health care costs have spiraled out of control," and b) the "consensus" (that is, insurer-endorsed) cost saving solutions are inadequate:
Some of these (more electronic recordkeeping, more ...
slate.com - 4/13/2009
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slate.com —
Remark From The Fray: It's not so bizarre
that the IRS doesn't require 503(c)3 organizations to reveal
their funding sources when you consider that lots of very controversial (genuine) grassroots organizations are 503(c)3 non-profits. For example, the ...
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Who is Dick Armey kidding? - By Timothy Noah - Slate ...
pr.thinkprogress.org - 4/12/2009
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pr.thinkprogress.org —
HEALTH CARE The Case For A Public Health
Care Plan Though President Obama and 73 percent of
voters strongly support a new public health insurance plan that can compete with private insurers equally and transparently within an insurance exchange, some ...
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Health Care -- The Case For A Public Health Care Plan
qando.net - 4/10/2009
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qando.net —
Ramesh Ponnuru writes one of the better op/eds
discussing the push for “universal health care” I’ve seen.
The practical case is that uninsured people raise premiums for everyone else. But such cost shifting raises premiums by 1.7 ...
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Health Care Reform And The Free Market
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Maggie's Farm —
... Jackson Jr. offered Blago $5 million for Senate seat
Faked Obama story passed off as real by the MSM
Are we wasting $ on Alzheimer's care?
Black Caucus duped by Fidel. (Why is there a Black Caucus?)
Gov. Rick Perry and the Tenth Amendment. Nobody told him that the Constitution was obsolete.
More on the paper scam. Mankiw. It's only $8 billion.
Kaus takes a look at medical care costs
Metrosexual Dems giddy about guns. ...
Choice, Costs, And Healthcare
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Mickey has an excellent and helpful post on the subject. One point that often gets lost in the shuffle:
Just because rising health care costs have eaten up all of the average American's wage increases, it does not necessarily follow that either this rise was unwarranted or that health care costs need to be controlled. Maybe Americans, like richer people everywhere, want to spend more money on health care (as opposed to, say, newspapers) and advances in health care have given them more valuable services to purchase (or have their employers ...
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 5/5/2009 —
Ezra Klein had an interesting post yesterday taking on the question of whether or not healthier lifestyles reduce health care costs . I think you can probably sum this up by saying: “it depends.”
What it depends on can get very ...
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 5/2/2009 — I don’t really like it when people attribute to me views I don’t hold, so I’ll say in response to Paul Campos that I know perfectly well that if the public adopted healthier lifestyles this would do little to reduce health care ...
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pollingreport.com 3/9/2009 — Paying for a major medical emergency
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msnbc.msn.com 2/25/2009 — A new government report on medical costs paints a stark picture for President Barack Obama, who is expected to call for a health care overhaul in a speech Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress.
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GOP: Budget creates 'mountains' of debt —
CNN Political Ticker 4/11/2009
Gov. Tim Pawlenty says the budget Congress is considering does not provide tax relief.
(CNN) – Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty charged that President Obama’s budget “creates mountains of new debt that will ultimately require higher taxes on all ...
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