According to its website, the National Legal and Policy Center"has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from ... READ MORE
On the way in to work this morning, I saw a vehicle with a bumper sticker "Buy Fresh, Buy Local" and various other green bumper stickers. Presumably, the point was that by buying local, you avoid extra greenhouse emissions from ... READ MORE
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 ... READ MORE
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 ... READ MORE
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 ... READ MORE
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 ... READ MORE
"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 ... READ MORE
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 ... READ MORE
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 ... READ MORE
"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 - ... READ MORE
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