Author: Amy Ridenour

Outrage of the Day: Krugman Again

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The perpetually non-serious (despite his grim look) New York Times columnist Paul Krugman claimed on ABC's This Week that "the argument against the public option is sheer nonsense, we know that, it's nothing except the insurance lobby." (See the last ...
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Outrage of the Day: A Rockefeller Questioning Profits

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Senator John D. Rockfeller IV (D-WV) has sent a letter to the top 15 health insurance companies asking them to report how profitable they are. In part because Rockefeller is a Senate Committee chairman, the letters carry with them the ...
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Dear President Obama: Please Read This

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Join me in urging our President and every Member of Congress to read the article "How American Health Care Killed My Father" by David Goldhill in the September issue of the Atlantic. Sample paragraph: I'm a Democrat, and have long ...
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Quote of Note: Median Wait Between Referral to a Specialist and Treatment in Canada is 17.3 Weeks

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"In 2008, the median wait time from general practitioner referral to treatment by a specialist was 17.3 weeks in Canada. Despite substantial increases in both health spending and federal cash transfers to the provinces for health care over the last ...
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Postal Rationing Confirmed?

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A lot of mail came in about David Almasi's blog post about D.C. area post offices rationing stamps. Of those we were given permission to publish, the following two stood out: i am a long time window clerk. cant say ...
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What’s Happening Now

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Is national health insurance Constitutional? No. Not convinced yet? Go here then. "It's almost as if the president has no experience..." Ya think? What planet is this guy on? Independence Institute: Medical coverage is like a game show. (90 sec ...
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How Rationing Begins

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"Whenever anything has a zero explicit price associated with it, consumer demand will increase substantially, and healthcare is no exception. At the same time, bureaucratic bungling will guarantee gross inefficiencies that will get worse and worse each year. As costs ...
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Quote of Note: Under Socialized Medicine, Rationing is Inevitable

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"As FA Hayek pointed out many years ago in his masterpiece, The Constitution of Liberty, if healthcare is paid for out of general taxation and delivered free at the point of delivery, then in a world of scarce resources - ...
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What’s Happening Now

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The British government health care waiting list problem has been solved. "Racial overtones," says MSNBC, capping its entry into the Stupidest News Clip of the Decade Contest. British tax dollars at work: National Health Service gives Viagra to man with ...
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What’s Happening Now

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Why hasn't David Axelrod recused himself from ObamaCare lobbying? No sunlight in Sunny California: Touchy agency trying to force someone to surrender video he shot of it. The left told a lie? Say it ain't so! Who said it? Climate ...
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