Dear MSM, Thank you for your mean-spirited and mendacious coverage of Sarah Palin. You have accomplished what no Republican strategist, talk radio host, or blogger could have managed—-you have energized conservatives and convinced many independents that they should vote for McCain-Palin. I would like to offer special thanks to the Washington Post for your incredibly dishonest story claiming [...]
In its coverage of the phony troopergate “investigation,” the MSM issued a collective yawn about Michael Wooten’s propensity to taser 10-year-olds. It appeared that, for the media, child abuse was “not an important failure,” as the poet Auden might have put it. Now, however, the media are suddenly outraged by some new “child abuse” they have discovered relating to [...]
Kevin, MD has written an open letter to John McCain and Barack Obama challenging them on the primary care crisis. He correctly points out that neither has a plan to deal with the problem: I do not hear any solutions addressing this issue on the campaign trail. No suggestions to, i) reform the dysfunctional physician payment system [...]
Because a nomination acceptance speech requires a candidate to cover so much policy ground in a short space of time, McCain didn’t dwell on health care last night. Nonetheless, he laid out the McCain/Obama choice pretty clearly: My health care plan will make it easier for more Americans to find and keep good health care insurance. His plan [...]
I think John McCain has hit the ball out of the park with his VP choice. Among the many assets the Alaska governor brings to the Republican ticket is a bias in favor of free market health care reform. Here’s a quote that captures her general position: I support flexibility in government regulations that allow competition in health care that is [...]
There’s only one presidential candidate promoting serious change in national health care policy—-and his name isn’t Barack Obama. John Goodman does a good job of expanding on this point in the WSJ: If you listen only to presidential campaign rhetoric, you might conclude that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama proposed bold new changes for our health-care system, while [...]
I have, of course, made this point before. But it bears repeating as we approach the election, which is less than 100 days away (Yikes!). Michael Tanner of The Cato Institute does a good job of explaining why McCain’s plan is superior to that of his opponent: Senator McCain’s proposal is far from perfect, but from a free-market [...]
John McCain has finally pointed out what should be obvious to anyone with a rudimentary understanding of economics: Small businesses are the job engine of America, and I will make it easier for them to grow and create more jobs … my opponent wants to make it harder by imposing a ‘pay or play’ health [...]
Once upon a time, the health care industry harbored considerable animus toward Democrats. This hostility reached its peak during the 1993 fight over Hillarycare. However, as that old tune from yesteryear phrases it, the times they are a changin’. The Health Blog reports the following: From Jan. 1, 2007 through March of this year, people and political action [...]
Last week, I highlighted what has already become the standard meme for ”progressive” policy wonks who wish to bash John McCain’s proposal to decouple health insurance from employment. The basic talking point, as expressed by Jonathan Cohn, goes as follows: Insurance companies generally won’t offer coverage directly to people with ‘pre-existing conditions,’ since they represent such bad financial [...]
