Since President Oblarney and his congressional accomplices started talking about including a “public option” in their health care “reform” package, many free market advocates have warned that this would lead to a government-run single-payer system. For anyone still naive enough to doubt that, US Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) let the cat out of the bag: Rep. Jan Schakowsky, [...]
Well, it would appear that our new President has an afinity for tax dodgers. First, he puts tax cheat Timothy Geithner in charge of the IRS. Now he wants tax cheat Tom Daschle to run Health & Human Services. This highlights the essential hypocrisy that animates all “progressive” policy makers. Tom Daschle plans to vacuum your pockets to [...]
Many advocates of “universal” health care tell us that the best way to fix American health care is to expand Medicare to cover everyone. They ignore the fact that the program is already fiscally unsustainable, even if its scope remains static. George Will explains why: When Medicare was created in 1965, America’s median age was 28.4; now [...]
As I pointed out recently, the socialized medicine crowd has come up with a new pretext for imposing government-run health care on the country—-that it will somehow stimulate the economy. Michael Cannon asks an inconvenient question: That seems to contradict their usual spiel … that America’s health care sector is wasteful and inefficient … How is pumping more [...]
Earlier this month I noted that the health care bureaucrats of the U.K. consider paying fat people to walk a judicious use of taxpayer money. Well, here’s an example what these apparatchiks consider an injudicious use of that money: Jack Rosser’s doctor says taking Pfizer Inc.‘s Sutent cancer drug may keep him alive long enough to [...]
I have already pointed out that Ted Kennedy has a health care agenda that he plans to begin pushing early next year. Yesterday, he reiterated his intentions: Senator Edward M. Kennedy … told reporters yesterday that he would advance a bill early next year calling for universal health care. Kennedy plans to reclaim his chairmanship of the Senate [...]
If the definition of insanity involves doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, Democrat Senator Max Baucus is as crazy as a rat in a barrel. The health care plan he announced yesterday incorporates the very features that have doomed every state-level universal coverage plan. Devon Herrick provides a conspicuous example: The Baucus plan includes many of [...]
While Barack Obama runs for President on an ostensibly ”moderate” health care reform proposal, his accomplice Ted Kennedy is busy putting together the actual program they plan to shove down our throats: From his sickbed, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has secretly been orchestrating meetings with lobbyists and lawmakers from both parties to craft legislation that would greet [...]
I wonder how many state-level “universal coverage” plans have to crash and burn before the advocates of government-run health care figure out that they don’t work. The latest such plan to slam headlong into the laws of economics is The Keiki Care program in Hawaii: Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the [...]
While participating in a debate about universal health care, Paul Krugman apparently wanted to demonstrate how happy Canadians are with their health care system. So, he decided to involve the audience in the discussion, with the following result: PAUL KRUGMAN And private insurance? That’s the thing, I— Actually, can I just —I wanted to ask a [...]
