nytimes.com - 6/22/2009
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America’s political scene has changed immensely since the last time a Democratic president tried to reform health care. So has the health care picture: with costs soaring and insurance dwindling, nobody can now say with a straight face that the U.S. health care system is O.K. And if surveys like ...
hoover.org - 6/20/2009
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hoover.org —
HEALTH CARE: How to Cure Health Care By
Milton Friedman The United States spends a mind-boggling percentage...
of its GDP on a health care system that virtually everyone agrees is a disaster. Is there any way out of this mess? There is—and Hoover fellow ...
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Hoover Institution - Hoover Digest - How to Cure Health Care
nytimes.com - 6/27/2009
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nytimes.com —
IN the debate over health care reform ,
one issue looms large: whether to have a public...
option. Should all Americans have the opportunity to sign up for government-run health insurance? President Obama has made his own preferences clear. In a letter ...
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Economic View - The Pitfalls of the Public Option in ...
online.wsj.com - 6/24/2009
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online.wsj.com —
ROBERT B. REICH Why has health-care reform stalled
in Congress? Democrats, after all, control both Houses, and...
President Obama, whose popularity remains high, has made universal health care his No. 1 priority. What's more, an overwhelming majority of ...
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Why We Need a Public Health-Care Plan
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Paul Krugman: Health Care Showdown
Economist's View —
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Health Care Showdown, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times: America’s
political scene has changed immensely since the last time a Democratic president
tried to reform health care. So has the health care picture: with costs soaring
and insurance dwindling, nobody can now say with a straight face that the U.S.
health care system is O.K. And if surveys ... are any indication, voters are
ready for major change. ...
Links June 22 09
Moon of Alabama —
... Memo to the President: What You Must Do To Save Universal Health Care - Robert Reich
In Poll, Wide Support for Government-Run Health - NYT
Health Care Showdown - Krugman/NYT
Guardian Council: Over 100% voted in 50 cities - PressTV
Rafsanjani ally calls for ‘political bloc’ (alt link) - FT
Bearded old men running scared will lose, though it may take a while - Mavercon/FT
Russia ready for deep nuclear arms cuts: ...
Do you believe in Stein's Law?
Marginal Revolution —
... Recent polls notwithstanding, I still don't see the median U.S. voter as either a) willing to have his or her own health insurance taxed, b) accepting serious restrictions on Medicare reimbursements relative to the status quo, c) accepting the mix of HMOs and co-ops that could actually control costs, or d) taking lots of money away from "health care" and putting it into arguably-more-effective public health programs. ...
Big Government Ben?
Economist's View —
... piece of
legislation that is proposed will be fought tooth and nail by the GOP as being far too
intrusive, granting the government too much power, and generally going far
beyond what is needed to solve the problem. The fact that the will for reform will diminish with time works in their favor, and if they can string things out long enough with this strategy, the result will be that the legislation eventually passes in a much weaker form, or it won't ever pass at all.
Just
ignore them. Altering a few words:
The Republicans, with a few possible ...
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