I did a little reading yesterday about health care reform over at Matthew Yglesias blog. I was trying to learn the current liberal point of view on the subject. Yglesias himself is frustrated at the American people, who don’t seem … Continue reading →
Obama finally has achieved a certain measure of bipartisanship. The only thing is—it’s in opposition to his health care reform bill. If a party with the huge majorities the Democrats enjoy right now in Congress is having trouble passing a … Continue reading →
Susan Estrich is a liberal Democrat through and through. But I’ve noticed that every now and then she writes a column that goes against the party line. In this recent one she shows a great deal of common sense, speaking … Continue reading →
Here’s an addendum to last night’s post. The gist of it is that at least one person disagrees with that analysis of the health care bill by Investor’s Business Daily, the one that said it would call a halt to … Continue reading →
…you’ll be able to keep your present coverage, this is what he meant. And Investor’s Business Weekly had to dig into the fine print of the jumungous bill to ferret it out: So we can all keep our coverage, just … Continue reading →
Is this WaPo editorial a portent of things to come? Let’s hope so. The paper has turned on Congress and to a lesser extent the President, criticizing their proposal to further tax the rich to fund universal health care: The … Continue reading →
President Obama gave a press conference recently at the G-8 summit. In response to a question about health care reform, he said: …whatever bill is produced has to be paid for, and that creates some difficulties because people would like … Continue reading →
…so goes the nation? Actually, the Massachusetts plan for health insurance reform, which passed in 2006 with bipartisan support and required everyone in the state to have health insurance or face penalties, seems almost modest compared to some of the … Continue reading →
Ah, it seems so easy. We all know that there’s waste in health care. We all know that there are unnecessary tests and treatments, and that if we could figure out what they are and eliminate them, health care costs … Continue reading →
This editorial in today’s WSJ points out that Obamacare rests on a number of unproven assumptions: The main White House argument for health-care reform goes something like this: If we spend now on a hugely expensive new insurance program for … Continue reading →
Is this a description of your doctor’s future under ObamaCare? Doctors will consolidate into larger practices to spread overhead costs, and they’ll cram more patients into tight schedules to make up in volume what’s lost in margin. Visits will be … Continue reading →
This WSJ article points out that: The private groups [who have announced their “cooperation” with Obama’s health care cost-cutting] are calculating that they can better influence this year’s bill if they’re “partners” instead of villains. They’ve no doubt seen what … Continue reading →