First, let’s stop pretending Barack Obama didn’t play the race card. Here’s what he said about McCain and his campaign:
What they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know: ‘He’s not patriotic enough. He’s got a funny name. You know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the […]
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Posted 02 August 2008
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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 John […]
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 perspective, […]
Despite implausible claims by Barack Obama and his cadre of policy advisors, it’s pretty obvious that Obamacare will be VERY expensive. Here’s what the NYT says about the combination of tax credits and subsidies that Obama’s plan envisions:
The subsidies are expensive, estimated at well over $100 billion. Other components of the Obama plan also bear up-front costs, like a […]
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Posted 23 July 2008
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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 mandate […]
When Barack Obama gave his nomination victory speech he advised his listeners that he was (like the Dickens character, Uriah Heep) very, very humble:
I face this challenge with profound humility and knowledge of my own limitations.
It would appear, however, that Obama’s humility is as “profound” as his commitment to public financing of presidential campaigns and FISA. He’s so humble, in […]
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Posted 21 June 2008
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Robert Goldberg has a mordant op-ed in the Washington Times about Barack Obama’s plan to “reform” U.S. health care. Here is his succinct description of Obamacare:
Mr. Obama plans to make Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) expansion the foundation of his proposal to expand coverage. He would make private health insurance affordable by having the government force […]
Although it is becoming increasingly obvious to serious policy wonks of all political persuasions that Health IT is not the panacea it has been made out to be, Barack Obama is still peddling EMR as a magical elixir. Newsweek has a good piece about this particular brand of Dr. Obama’s snake oil:
He claims that a […]
The more one examines the health care references in Barack Obama’s recent victory speech the more ridiculous they seem, a point not lost on Michael Graham of the Boston Herald:
For sheer entertainment value, few things can beat South Side Obama, the High Priest of Rezko Politics, offering himself as the new Moses in the land of free medical care manna […]
Anyone doubting that contemporary Progressivism is intellectually moribund should consider the credulous reaction of the Left to Barack Obama’s recent victory speech. Does one not have to be totally brain dead to take the following seriously?
I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was […]
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Posted 09 June 2008
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