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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Media: Obama's a neologist; Bush was just dumb. Jokes to play on the President. Where does YOUR state rank? (H/T Coyote Blog.) Examiner: If Americans were getting an average of 20 miles to the gallon before Cash for Clunkers, they ...
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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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"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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