One of the most profound ironies of our era is that many of the people who live and die by the internet, the “netroots” for example, spend much of their time trashing the very economic system that provided them with the technology and the discretionary time to do so. This video explains it in terms even a progressive […]
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A WOLF IN FREE-MARKET CLOTHING
Dr. Milton Wolf takes on his cousin, President Obama, in an op-ed for Fox. Wolf is a strong advocate of individualism and therefore of the free market. Thus, he is able to accurately diagnose the basic problem with ObamaCare:
The fundamental flaw at the core of ObamaCare is the mistaken belief that the government can spend your dollars […]
THE PURPLE HEALTH REFORM PLAN
The reds and the blues have been engaged in a running gun battle over health reform for a long time. But, as David Hogberg reports at IBD, one group of economists believes it is possible to achieve progressive aims by market-based means:
Boston University economist Laurence Kotlikoff … seeks to achieve the liberal goal of universal care via a market-oriented […]
VIDEO: A DOCTOR EXPLAINS WHY OBAMACARE IS WRONG MEDICALLY AND MORALLY
This is a must watch: Dr. Beth Haynes of the Black Ribbon Project explains why ObamaCare is wrong from the perspectives of economics, medicine AND morality. Listen particularly closely to the quotes she provides from CMS administrator Donald Berwick and consider her words about capitalism as well:
[ht Paul Hsieh]
DR. BERWICK AND MR. HIDE
My latest column for the American Spectator highlights the many flip-flops Obama’s CMS chief executed in his February 10 testimony before the House Ways & Means Committee. He changed so many of his positions it was as if he had become a completely different person:
His disingenuous opening remarks, evasive answers, and transparent contempt for congressional oversight revealed Obama’s recess-appointed […]
DUMBEST REFORM POST OF THE WEEK (V)
This week, the competition for this coveted prize was absolutely ferocious. Indeed, a veritable blizzard of brainless reform posts poured forth from the “progressive” blogosphere.” But this post by Patrick Appel takes the biscuit on the basis of its breathtaking contempt for the voters.
Responding to a post at Reason discussing the value of placing “individuals on equal tax footing as employers when […]
THE GOP “HAS A PROBLEM” WITH REFORM
Philip Klein does a good job of summarizing the fundamental problem with our health care system: the U.S. health care market is everywhere shackled by government:
The way the health care system functions in this country is completely different from the way any other part of the economy functions. Everywhere else, American consumers face a dizzying array […]
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DUMB HEALTH POLICY
As anyone with a modicum of literacy in economics understands, a major driver of high health costs has been the absence of a national health insurance market. Grace-Marie Turner, for example, explains it thus:
Freeing Americans to buy health insurance across state lines would give people more choices in health care.
Why can’t they do so? Because it is against […]
OBAMACARE & PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS
Andrew Sullivan raises an issue that many opponents of Obamacare have difficulty handling: the plight of patients with pre-existing conditions. He begins, however, with a paean to the U.S. health care system:
Only 15 years ago, the retrovirus, HIV, was killing thousands in America … I was told in 1993 that I had a few years to live. I write […]
ARE CRITICS OF MARKET-BASED HEALTH REFORM SIMPLY NEUROTIC?
Most of the progressives I know and read seem reasonably intelligent, or at least not exceptionally stupid. Nonetheless, they often adopt positions that make a mockery of critical thinking.
Take their bias against market-based health reform: They can’t articulate a coherent justification for their position, yet they reject the market in favor of a nanny-state “solution” modeled on a series of spectacular failures.
So, what’s wrong […]