If you’re a health insurance company’s CEO and the government mandates premiums, who you must cover, what kind of coverage you must offer, and the margins you are permitted to make, do you really think you can stay in business? …
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A simple point: why health care is not, and can never be, a "right"
Today, just two days later, Obama is speaking again about health care in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Health Care Ad Inifinitum – Real Clear Politics – TIME.com
Former Reason magazine Editor in Chief Virginia Postrel has seen the strengths and the shortcomings of the American health care system both as a kidney donor and a breast cancer survivor.
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Reason.tv: Virginia Postrel on Health Care Reform & The Role of …
Amid consumer furor over rising health insurance premiums, the Obama administration asked insurers on Thursday to post rate hikes — and the justification for them — on the Internet. Also on Thursday, Sen
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Obama asks health insurers to post reasons for rate hikes online …
Do you think that will make health care more or less efficient? Do you think that will make health care more or less expensive
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All You Need To Know About the Health Care Debate | Erick's blog
When Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), Ben Nelson (D-NE), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Joe Lieberman (I-CT), and the entire Republican Senate caucus stepped up to kill the public option in the Senate, it is important to remember that the health …
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Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle was nominated by President Barack Obama to be secretary of Health and Human Services and the White House’s point person on health reform. Although Daschle withdrew his name after reports that he …
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Daschle: Incremental Health Reforms Won't Work – Kaiser Health News
Martin Wolf’s Economists’ Forum in the Financial Times writes about Obama, central banks, regulation, financial services, China and the global crisis.
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India: Reviving public health services | Economists' Forum | FT.com
Shame on me. I was elsewhere yesterday and missed the health care summit. I’m catching up now, and the tea leaves seem to indicate that Obama came out well ahead of the Republicans
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The Health Care Summit – Swampland – TIME.com
The health care plan President Obama recently released is mostly a combination of the different plans passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate. But in one major way it breaks with long-standing precedent, …
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Obama's Health Plan Has Dangerous New Taxes | The Foundry …
