washingtonpost.com - 8/25/2009
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Staff Writer, The Atlantic Wednesday, August 26, 2009; 1:00 PM
facebook.com - 8/21/2009
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President Obama's health care "reform" plan has met
with significant criticism across the country. Many Americans want...
change and reform in our current health care system. We recognize that while we have the greatest medical care in the world, there ...
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Sarah Palin: No Health Care Reform Without Legal Reform
inversesquare.wordpress.com - 8/29/2009
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…the necessary blood pressure medication on its own
would bankrupt our soon-to-be-reformed health care system. Though perhaps,...
pieces like this actually evoke more of a sense of wonder than anything else — not merely at the banality and ...
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Another Reason Why My Doctor Tells Me The Nation ...
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Megan Live!
Megan McArdle —
I'll be doing a live chat on the Washington Post tomorrow. Those who are interested can participate, or view it, here.
Chat
Balloon Juice —
Megan McArdle will be putting her own smug, glibertarian spin on the perils of health care reform in 1 pm chat today.
It’s probably too early for a drinking game, so take a swig of whatever beverage you like every time you read “free market”, “innovation”, or “obesity”.
If you hear “Ayn Rand” or the name of any character in an Ayn Rand novel, finish the whole glass.
If you read “death panels” or “death books” (from McArdle herself, not a questioner), you have permission to ...
And Again
Crooked Timber —
... she thinks would be ideal (or at least admirable) goals. Just to be clear: I am not planning to argue that everything that is ideal must be possible. I am merely pointing out that, in a case like this, where there is horse-trading and sausage-stuffing in practice, it is a good idea to step back – once in a while – and say what the point is supposed to be. I don’t think this is intolerably impractical. And, if it is, McArdle is in no position to complain. As she herself wrote just last week: “You seem to be under the mistaken impression that I ...
McArdle to facts: kiss my ass, facts.
INSTAPUTZ —
... blogger Megan McArdle wrote a post on pharmaceutical companies last month, and while replying to one of her commenters, she said this: The United States currently provides something like 80-90% of the profits on new drugs and medical devices. Perhaps you think you can slash profits 80% with no effect on the behavior of the companies that make these products. I don't. Last week, during a Washington Post online chat, this exchange took place: Anonymous: You said that ...
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themoderatevoice.com 8/16/2009 — This article in the Atlantic is the best “conservative” argument against the health system/reform that I’ve read. Regardless of how you feel about the policy proposal, the description of the root problem is entirely accurate and rarely addressed.
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