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Rip Van Health Care: Heritage Foundation Recycles ‘Big Government’ Fear Mongering
Wonk Room —
... services for the American people.” A simple copy-paste job fourteen years later and Heritage is now warning that a national health board and a new public health plan — as proposed by Baucus, Obama, and Daschle — would “cancel private coverage and care“: ...
Holding Obama Accountable on Health Care
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... We think Obama should listen to Republicans and conservatives. Heritage fought vigorously against Hillarycare in 1993 and remains committed to free-market principles on healthcare reform. The legislation we helped design for Sen. Don Nickles (R-OK) at that time, which gained strong support in the Senate as well as the House, became the bulwark against the Clinton bill and assured its defeat. Ellis should get his history right. Don’t worry. We won’t support an Obama plan that violates conservative principles. When the Obama administration puts forth a health care reform plan, ...
Don't Let Daschle's Transparency Talk Fool You
The Next Right —
... Daschle doesn’t care if you meet at home, the office or a coffee shop -- just as long as he’s able to boast that the Obama administration listened to Americans. He probably figures it’ll be an easier sell when he proposes his Orwellian “Federal Health Board” to ensure unprecedented government interference in the delivery of care. ...
CJR Worries Conservative Health Care Ideas Might 'Seep' into Coverage
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
Journalists, consider yourselves warned.
Columbia Journalism Review worries government-run health care might not come to pass; indeed, ideas for consumer-driven health care could "seep" into media coverage.
CJR's Trudy Lieberman announced it was "ominous news" that a government health insurance plan might be delayed:
"Ezra Klein over at The American Prospect’s blog was right on point last week when he sent along some ominous news. Klein, quoting a story in Congressional Quarterly, said that John McDonough, the former head of a Massachusetts advocacy group who now works for ...
Working Too Closely With Republicans Is Toxic For Obama's Plans To Reform Health Care-- And Unhealthy For Americans
DownWithTyranny! —
... will limit patient choice. REALITY: Progressive reforms would provide more choice, not less. Under progressive proposals, Americans will have the choice to keep the employer plan they currently have or buy an affordable plan from the national insurance exchange. Individuals and small businesses will be able to “compare private coverage options and a public plan and to purchase the policy that would work best for them.” GOP Lie: Americans will lose their existing coverage. REALITY: Progressive proposals strengthen the employer ...
Commonwealth Fund: Stark’s Health Bill Covers All, Nets Savings
Wonk Room —
... Stark’s large expansion of Medicare is politically toxic because it exposes him to conservative claims that his plan would “crowd out” private coverage. ...
Friday morning links
Maggie's Farm —
Sex in the Middle Ages, via the NSFW cool site Cool Shit which Tiger found.
Souter? Won't make a big diff. (Does anyone doubt that he wailted until there were Dems in control?) And Specter? Is John Cornyn trying to make lemonade out of a lemon, or is he right?
See? Earth Day made a difference!
Good interview with Mark Levin (his book remains #1) by John Hawkins. h/t, Dr Helen
The SAT and its enemies. Weekly Standard
Government medical care from a nurse, at Am Thinker: ...
