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U.S. Credit Rating: Don’t Shoot the Downgrade Messenger0
- August 12, 2011
Attacking S&P for the U.S. credit downgrade is like criticizing your doctor for diagnosing your cancer.
READ MOREDid health care bill suppress job growth & promote unemployment?0
- August 8, 2011
Before the health overhaul law passed, the number of new jobs was soaring. After the bill passed, job growth stagnated.
READ MOREDebt ceiling: Budget Deal Doesn’t Cut Spending0
- August 2, 2011
“Rs & Ds have come together on a ‘historic’ budget deal that … [the] Washington Post’s lead story calls the cuts ‘sharp’ and ‘severe.’ However, the budget deal doesn’t cut federal spending at all. The ‘cuts’ in the deal are only cuts from the CBO ‘baseline,’ which is a Washington construct of ever-rising spending.” – Chris Edwards, Cato
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England’s NHS ‘creaking at the seams’ as waiting lists rise0
- July 21, 2011
The Telegraph (UK) reminds us that single-payer “universal” health care is really universal misery: “A senior doctors’ leader has warned that the NHS is “creaking at the seams” as official figures showed almost a third more patients are waiting too long to be treated in hospital.”
READ MOREWill ObamaCare produce cascade of insolvent Colorado insurers?0
- July 18, 2011
ObamaCare threatens the solvency of private health plans, which will significantly reduce consumer choice and increase costs. …[In] Colorado, where one large health plan has already announced plans to leave the state, Graham’s analysis demonstrates a “cascade” of insolvency, whereby only five of the ten largest plans in 2009 will be operating in 2017.
READ MORE“Accountable Care Organizations”: The Coming Collectivization of American Health Care0
- July 12, 2011
In the 1930s, the USSR forced independent farmers into large state-run collective farms. … these collective farms could not feed the country. … Unfortunately, the United States is about to make the same mistake in health care by collectivizing doctors and hospitals into government-supervised accountable care organizations (ACOs).
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