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Misreading the Numbers
Has Obama’s team also misread the numbers on health care reform? The big number, the number which drives all the other numbers is 45.7 million. That’s the number of Americans said to be lacking health insurance. If that number is accurate, it’s still less than one in six Americans. But is it accurate? Continue reading
Obama Will Repeal Medicare
It is so ironic that the elderly – who were so vigilant when Bush proposed to change Social Security – are so relaxed about the Obama health care proposals. Continue reading
Why the Kennedy Health Bill Would Wreck Bipartisan Reform
The Affordable Health Choices Act is a setback for bipartisan health care reform. Continue reading
Murder by Bureaucracy
Wise guy liberal talk show hosts and writers of impassioned letters to the editor have been lecturing me with the argument that Obama and his Democrats are not remotely planning any sort of government health-care rationing in their socialized medicine plan, which is going to save so much money that they are now scrounging around for the biggest tax increase in U.S. history to pay for it. But Obama has now made fools out of all of them with the release last week of his White House report, “The Economic Case for Health Care Reform” (.pdf), produced by his Council of Economic Advisors (CEA). Read the document, and you will see that it envisions a complete government takeover of America’s health care in great det Continue reading
Income Tax Will Become More Progressive Under Obama Tax Plan
Progressivity discourages hard work, savings, investing, and entrepreneurship. Discouraging these catalysts of economic growth is always counterproductive, but doing so during a severe economic recession is particularly irresponsible. Continue reading
