Tag Archives: Insurance Reform

The Health Care Cost Saving Myth

August 20, 2009 – 12:23 pm

Here are the real options for health care cost-cutting: less care; less money to caregivers, which would amount to the same thing; less use of intermediaries; or less cost in using intermediaries. There will be no cost savings. There’s no sense in pretending otherwise.

By Dan McLaughlin | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged , , , , | Comments

The Left’s Double Standard on Dissent

August 18, 2009 – 11:35 pm

The response to the town hall questioners reveals a sinister side of the Left that is about as intolerant, undemocratic, and illiberal as it gets. This is an egregious double standard, and should be recognized as such.

By Ken Connor | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments

Obama’s JFK Mistake: All Glamour, No Game

August 18, 2009 – 9:47 am

When it comes to domestic policy, thus far there is no presidency that Barack Obama’s resembles more than John F. Kennedy’s. This is not a positive statement: Kennedy, equipped with a similarly strong majority on Capitol Hill, was nonetheless a legislatively frustrated president. By mismanaging his health care insurance reform, Obama now risks the same thing.

By Ben Domenech | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments

Mobs and Town Halls: Politics Isn’t All About Kissing Babies

August 18, 2009 – 8:25 am

If I had been back home last weekend, I would have joined my mother, my brother, my friends and my neighbors at that town hall asking questions, searching for what I could do to change the course of this debate, change the tenor of things in Washington, and get reforms from Capitol Hill that make things better, not just hand things over to more bureaucracy. If that means that I am the mob, so be it.

By Brad Jackson | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged , , , , , , | Comments

How Competition Works in Health Care

August 17, 2009 – 8:05 am

There are many good reasons to have a deep conversation about how health insurance works in this country, because there are a lot of things wrong with it.

By Francis Cianfrocca | Posted in Blogs, Markets & Policy | Also tagged , , , | Comments

Town Halls, Protesters, Astroturf and the Return of the Perotistas

August 8, 2009 – 6:22 pm

The surge in expressions of protest at the recent town hall meetings have many ramifications, but it’s important to note the miscalculations of both sides about the nature of these protesters, and the potential political outcomes of their fomented frustration.

By Ben Domenech | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Comments
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