cato.org - 1/30/2009
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Cato's health policy work is designed to show that the only way to make health care of ever-increasing quality available to an ever-increasing number of consumers is to put consumers in charge of their health care dollars and decisions. With that in mind, Cato has worked to familiarize the ...
nytimes.com - 1/30/2009
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nytimes.com —
Why has the Obama administration been silent about
one of the key promises during the campaign —
the promise of guaranteed health care for all Americans? >
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Op-Ed Columnist: Health Care Now
blogs.tnr.com - 2/3/2009
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blogs.tnr.com —
Can health care reform go ahead, this year,
even without Tom Daschle? Yes. Does this episode--and Daschle's
absence--make the task of enacting health care reform harder? Yes, although how much harder is difficult to say right now.
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The New Republic: Daschle is Done. Health Reform Is ...
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Cannon: Daschle Care
Articles on National Review Online —
... s rationing board, if it gets established, will get defanged by lobbyists immediately. House Democrats disagree: Their stimulus package would give Daschle $400 million to get his rationing board going. History suggests that government money will do nothing to reduce health-care costs. And even if Democrats could create a rationing board that could deny health care to people without accountability, is that kind of savings we want? Michael F. Cannon is director of health-policy studies at the Cato Institute and co-author of Healthy Competition: What ...
Oh, the Irony
The Corner on National Review Online —
... says, "If the industry's influence is so pervasive that not even Tom Daschle the acknowledged gold standard for integrity in government can escape industry money, then we need a completely unaccountable Federal Health Board to make the important decisions about our health care." (Of course, I'm assuming no one has said that already.) That argument will resonate in certain quarters. I doubt it will pass the public's smell test. Michael F. Cannon is director of health-policy studies at the Cato Institute and co-author of Healthy Competition: What s ...
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