Health Care

The Two Big Lies of Health Care “Reform”

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 3, 2009

Here are a couple of good readings on health care policy: The Hoover Institution has a “second opinion” with ten reasons why health care in the U.S. is…

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Taxes & Economy

Federal Spending by the Numbers

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 31, 2009

The Heritage Foundation has a new report on federal spending. The short document includes lots of good tables and charts showing the effects of Bush-Obama spending increases.

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Health Care

ObamaCare vs. Free Market Solutions

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 24, 2009

The Heritage Foundation has a new analysis of the US House Democrats’ health care bill, showing that over 80 million people would lose their private insurance, and costs for…

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State Budget

Your $28 Million Dollar Pork Dinner

  • July 21, 2009

With growing criticism of the effectiveness of President Obama $787 billion dollar economic stimulus plan mounting, several recent purchases by the Department of Agriculture have American taxpayers in a…

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Health Care

Why We Must Ration Health Care

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 20, 2009

In a New York Times piece, a bioethics professor defends rationing in health care, stating we have to do it.  He uses a number of examples in which the…

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Health Care

ObamaCare will Raise Costs and Taxes

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 19, 2009

The Director of the Congressional Budget Office warned that the “public option” and other items in Congressional Democrats’ health care proposals would cause health care costs to increase, not…

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Taxes & Economy

Obama Reverses On Stimulus Promises

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 18, 2009

The GOP has a pretty hard hitting video on Obama’s stimulus promises.  First it shows Obama’s promises that the stimulus would have an “immediate impact” on creating jobs.  Then…

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Health Care

Federal Government, M.D.

  • July 15, 2009

President Obama’s $1.5 trillion health care plan would make health insurance a “right” for all Americans. The proposed plan empowers the federal government to ensure that employers provide insurance…

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Health Care

Video: Health Reform and Wait Times (In Lego!)

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 9, 2009

Here is a good video comparing health care wait times in Atlanta and Boston – home to the failed Massachusetts health care reform, which serves as a model…

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