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• How the Current Senate Bill Will RAISE the Cost of Health Care

  
  The Entreblog! — Authority: 112
  A month ago, I wrote about the “tragedy of the commons” and how it applies to health care in the US. Basically, “The same holds true for health care. Collectively, we all have an incentive to avoid over-utilizing health care and unnecessarily burdening our system. Individually, however, when we have no ...
  3 days ago

• What Happened to the Public Option

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 691
  Robert Reich refuses to give up on the public option: Harry Reid, and What Happened to the Public Option, by Robert Reich : First there was Medicare for all 300 million of us. But that was a non-starter because private insurers and Big Pharma wouldnt hear of it, and Republicans and "centrists" thought it was too ...
  5 days ago

• What should we do instead of the Obama health reform bill?

  
  Paul M. Jones — Authority: 127
  …4. Make an all-out attempt to limit deaths by hospital infection and the simple failure of doctors to wash their hands and perform other medically obvious procedures.5. Make an all-out attempt, working with state and local governments (recall, since the Feds are picking up the Medicaid tab they have temporary ...
  1 week ago

• Health care costs vs. the U.S. military budget

  
  swimming freestyle — Authority: 483
  (SenateMinority Leader Mitch McConnell) said..."according to independentestimates, every health care proposal Democrats on Capitol Hill haveoffered would only hurt the economy." Its pretty much the fundamental tenet of the GOPs opposition to health care reform;  "sure, we need it, but we cant afford it." David ...
  1 week ago

• Im In the Stupid Aisle

  
  NPR Check — Authority: 423
  Okay, Chana Joffe-Walt actually said, "Im in the the soup aisle" as she spoke to her partner in inanity, David Kastenbaum on their Planet Money story on this Fridays ATC . NPR Check reader, Grumpy Demo , picks apart the Planet Monkeys latest effort in the Q Tips below and in the comments section of the NPR story: ...
  1 week ago

• "An Open Letter to Harry Reid on Controlling Health Care Costs"

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 691
  Robert Reich: An Open Letter to Harry Reid on Controlling Health Care Costs, by Robert Reich : Dear Senator, I know youre in a tough spot. It would be bad enough if you only had to get Ben Nelson, Evan Bayh, Mary Landrieu, and Blanche Lincoln on board, but anyone who has to kiss Joe Liebermans derriere deserves a ...
  1 week ago

• Lies, damned lies and the health care debate

  
  Reality Hammer - For People Who Can Handle The Truth — Authority: 131
  The faux victim stories are making the rounds in the press. And just like all those jobs "saved or created" by Obama, no one can really point to a specific job but everyone has "estimates". And, of course, it is usually some poor, orphaned, Hispanic, black waif who fought in Iraq that suffers the most. Never mind ...
  1 week ago

• Why We Need an Individual Mandate for Health Insurance

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 691
  At MoneyWatch: Why We Need an Individual Mandate for Health Insurance, by Mark Thoma
  1 week ago

• More on Health Care & the Constitution

  
  FRC Blog — Authority: 571
  Sen. Daniel Akaka is probably the quietest person in the U.S. Senate. He is known as a kindly man who votes faithfully but is not a vocal or activist member of the “upper body.” But this week, when asked if there is a constitutional basis for the Democratic health care bill , he candidly said, “I’m not ...
  1 week ago

• Dodd Wants A Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Will It Regulate Congress?

  
  Big Government — Authority: 813
  With everyone focused on the “health care” bill and Afghanistan is anyone paying attention to the push for another government agency ? The Consumer Financial Protection Agency is on the way. “* Dodd Backs Obama proposal to create agency to regulate credit cards, mortgages, other financial products * ...
  1 week ago

• Harvard economist explains why Obamacare will raise premiums

  
  The City Square — Authority: 502
  The people in Congress seem to know nothing about how insurance actually works. Martin Feldstein, who is a professor of economics at Harvard University and the president emeritus of the nonprofit National Bureau of Economic Research, explains what should be obvious about the insurance market. In the Washington Post, ...
  1 week ago

• Prepare to shop at Safeway/Fry’s this weekend to thwart union picketing

  
  Sonoran Alliance — Authority: 142
  In a strikingly bizarre twist, grocery store employees at Safeway and Fry’s Grocery have been picketing the stores’ union this week in order to stop it from picketing. The  United Food & Commercial Union Local 99 is threatening to go on strike this Friday at 6pm over health insurance. Their reason? Safeway ...
  1 week ago

• Iron Law of Oligarchy Alive and Well In Colorado

  
  Wash Park Prophet — Authority: 134
  One of the oldest empirical economic theories is that markets naturally tend to towards oligarchy, now called oligopoly, where a small number of firms dominant a given market. Health insurance in the Colorado market is not exception. Five firms dominant the health insurance market in the state . The biggest five ...
  1 week ago

• Camille Paglia Against The Health Care Bill?

  
  Paul M. Jones — Authority: 127
  I can’t say she’s all right, but she does get a hell of a lot right.As for the actual content of the House healthcare bill, horrors! Where to begin? That there are serious deficiencies and injustices in the U.S. healthcare system has been obvious for decades. To bring the poor and vulnerable into the fold [...]
  2 weeks ago

• The Youth Tax, Ctd.

  
  Voting While Intoxicated — Authority: 134
  Further thoughts on age rating in health insurance. I think eliminating age rating is good in theory, but it seems to require some other element in the system to promote redistribution to the young. The present health reform goes to varying lengths to limit age rating but does not completely stop it, in part because ...
  2 weeks ago

• Making Jobs More Expensive

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 673
  The recently passed health care “reform” noted by James below is going to have another impact some have noted, but many have not given much thought too. It will, in effect, make labor more expensive. When something becomes more expensive for firms then tend to use less of it. They will substitute away from it ...
  2 weeks ago

• Liberty dies with thunderous applause

  
  Paul M. Jones — Authority: 127
  The beginning of the end, I fear. Baby steps on the road to serfdom.theblogprof: Liberty dies with thunderous applause.
  2 weeks ago

• Does Doing Nothing Cost Nothing?

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 691
  Failure to enact health care reform will be costly: The cost of not enacting health care reform, by Linda J. Bilmes and Rosemarie Day, Commentary, Boston Globe : Much of the health care debate is focused on whether the country can afford the $850 billion the Congressional Budget Office estimates it will cost. ... ...
  2 weeks ago

• How "Free" Government Health Care Works

  
  artdiamondblog.com — Authority: 425
  "Michael Kellerman and daughter Jovi, 1, wait in line near 69th and Underwood for a flu shot Thursday morning." Source of caption and photo: online version of the Omaha World-Herald article quoted and cited below. Thousands turned out this morning for Douglas Countys first public clinic for H1N1 flu ...
  2 weeks ago

• CBO slams Republican health care plan

  
  swimming freestyle — Authority: 483
  The official Republican line on the health care reform debate has been that theyve got really great ideas but Democrats have failed to include them in forming the legislation.  Throughout the debate, House Minority Leader John Boehner would conduct news conferences and wring his hands, despairing that the Democrats ...
  2 weeks ago

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