Betsy McCaughey suggests some health care questions for tonight’s Presidential debate in Austin. Since Hillary appears to be on the verge of becoming an “also ran,” I’ll focus on three queries relating to Obama’s proposals:
You have said that you will require all parents to have health insurance for their children. What will you do to enforce this law?
This is the […]
The elderly bobby-soxer of TAP, as Mark Steyn aptly describes Ezra Klein, inadvertantly exposes the essential paternalism that animates the single-payer project:
Liberal solutions don’t try and force the individual into a governing role he or she is not equipped to assume.
In other words, the hoi polloi are simply too stupid to make their own health care decisions, so their betters in […]
Single-payer advocates promote the fiction that people who disagree with them are “against reform.” In reality, however, the most ferocious defenders of the status quo are those who favor government-run health care. The Florida Times-Union reports on a typical campaign to undermine market-oriented reform:
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush led the most ambitious and significant reform to Medicaid in the country. Since he […]
A couple of weeks ago, Clinton lickspittle Paul Krugman denounced Barack Obama for sending out what he termed an “ugly mailer.” Krugman was unable to find any factual inaccuracies in the mailer, so he used its resemblance to the famous Harry & Louise TV commercial as a pretext for another of his attacks on Obama.
Now, Hillary Clinton has sent […]
Barack Obama has been successful in the Democratic primaries and caucuses largely because he doesn’t seem as threatening as Hillary Clinton. Even for Democrats, Hillary is a little scary. I mean, we’re talking about someone who sees political opposition in terms of dark conspiracies.
So, how does a scary authoritarian like Hillary counter a challenge from a purveyor of innocuous bromides like […]
I have written before about ostensibly non-partisan organizations and publications that have been infected by faux-progressive politics. The latest victim of this contagion is the New England journal of Medicine, which provides space for political hack Robert Kuttner to promote discredited Lefty canards such as the following:
The extreme failure of the United States to contain medical costs results primarily […]
Why do I have the feeling that this story from The Telegraph would have received much more play in the establishment media had the medical students in question been Christian fundamentalists?
Muslim medical students are refusing to obey hygiene rules brought in to stop the spread of deadly superbugs, because they say it is against their religion.
It would appear that […]
Yesterday, I noted that Barack Obama and John McCain are both right on health insurance mandates. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about their positions on drug reimportation. Both are for it—which means they are for importing the price controls of Canada and other countries.
As I discuss here, drug reimportation would stifle innovation while producing insignificant reductions in pharmaceutical spending. […]
Last week, Maggie Mahar linked to a risible attempt to rehabilitate the reputation of Canada’s dysfunctional health care system. Mythbusting Canadian Health Care is really just a series of straw men that its author, Sara Robinson, makes a great show of knocking down, presumably in the hope that no one will notice her failure to address the real problems plaguing her country’s health care system. She […]
The Potomac primary has made it more likely than ever that Barack Obama and John McCain will be the nominees of their respective parties in the Fall. That’s good news for those of us who oppose health insurance mandates. It’s not unheard of for politicians to renege on promises, of course, but both have made very strong statements […]
