Category: Health

The Best Health Reform May Be to Kill Cap-and-Trade

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If you worry about what Congress could do in its health care legislation, you should be terrified by the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, which could cost millions of Americans their health insurance. Nearly 15 million Americans are now looking for work, ...
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Unlike Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, I Would Save the Babies and Children First

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Betsy McCaughey has an op-ed on Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel in Thursday's Wall Street Journal. I left the following comment on the Journal website: I found it impossible to read Dr. Emanuel's Lancet article (Jan 2009) without getting a chill. He ...
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John Mackey: Eight Ways to Improve Health Care

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John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods, has eight suggestions for improving health care in today's Wall Street Journal. They are, quoting Mackey: Remove the legal obstacles that slow the creation of high-deductible health insurance plans and health savings ...
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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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Girl, 17, Faces Paralysis Thanks to Gov’t Health Care Waiting List

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A young lady in Ireland fears she may be paralyzed for life because Ireland's government-run health care service hasn't gotten around to putting her on the waiting list for the operation she needs -- and the waiting list is a ...
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D.C. Post Office Rationing Stamps (Still Excited About Government-Run Health Care?)

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One of my co-workers, who is managing a particularly large mailing, has just returned empty-handed from a quest to obtain 3,000 stamps from nearby post offices. Not even the official stamp store attached to the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum - ...
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Is Obama Really Dropping the So-Called Public Option? Not a Chance

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The media is making much of the Obama Administration's hints that the President will no longer insist on a so-called "public option" in a health care bill he signs, but the idea of a government-started "co-op" alternative to private health ...
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Want a Baby? Thanks to Government Health Care, In Britain Becoming a Parent May Depend on Where You Live

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Everyone over a certain age knows what you have to do if you want to have a baby -- that is, except in Britain, where for some couples, the route to parenthood lies in changing their home address. That's because ...
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Pelosi and Hoyer Declare War… On Themselves

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"Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American." I've always felt this is true. I just never thought Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer believed it, too. So when might we expect Pelosi and Hoyer to hand over their passports? In yesterday's ...
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Obama/DNC Health Care Operation Urges Congressional Visits

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Someone who lives in Virginia but who did not mention that his name could be used sent me and others the attached two-page flyer from President Obama's health care operation. (Open each photo in a new tab or window to ...
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