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Galley Slaves: The New Yorker and Truth in Advertising
Articles on National Review Online: Three Strikes against Obamacare -- By: The Editors
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The full article by John Cassidy can be found here http://bit.ly/3eRwOm 7 days ago |
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RT @jamarhudson: Very nice read on the health care situation. Worth a look -- http://bit.ly/4l1aNx Knowledge is cool...good$$ 16 days ago |
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Current health-care system excludes 46.3 million Americans (Census Bureau) & it is inordinately expensive http://bit.ly/4l1aNx 18 days ago |
The New Yorker and Truth in Advertising
Galley Slaves —
The New Yorker has a piece by John Cassidy which offers the view that the Democratic push for healthcare reform is: (1) Laudable. (2) Dishonestly presented. (3) Likely to incur giant costs, despite what Democrats say. (4) Likely to incur a large set of unforeseen consequences. (5) Likely to become impossible to dismantle once it becomes law. (6) On balance a net good. (7) Such a net good that it justifies--and perhaps even requires--the Democrats' dishonesty. That's fine, as far as it goes. But ...
Three Strikes against Obamacare -- By: The Editors
Articles on National Review Online —
... That’s a lot of angst and upset for a bill that, according to its own supporters, will only raise insurance coverage from 83 percent of the population to 96 percent. ...
Is Cost Control a Joke?
The New Republic blogs —
... people affected by those changes--be they health care businesses that would lose reimbursements or everyday Americans facing the prospect of higher taxes--will complain. Once they do, Congress is likely to have second thoughts and repeal those measures. I wrote the article thinking primarily about conservatives and libertarians who have made this case. But, to be clear, you don't have to be a conservative to have these concerns. Just a few days ago, for example, the New Yorker 's John Cassidy warned about the likely high costs of health care reform: The U.S. government is ...
New Yorker's John Cassidy on the Real Reason for the Health Care Bill
Hit & Run —
... Cassidy's
full piece for the New Yorker which the
Journal is quoting, which has many more details on the
fantasy of "cost-savings" in the health care bill as it stands. ...
