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Medicare Eligibility Age
It’s always bizarre to see liberals like Matthew Yglesias ignore the historical evidence and argue that central government, with its central planning and price controls, will do a better job at managing the economy than a system organized around markets and competition. … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged big government, central planning, Matthew Yglesias, Medicare, ObamaCare, price controls, public option
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Kiss Mammograms Good-Bye
Well, now that the election is over, the authoritarians (a/k/a liberals) can turn their full attention back to healthcare and resume the task of placing 315 million Americans under the thumb of the central government. Liberals are often seen as wanting to turn America into Europe, … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged big government, current events, healthcare, liberals, ObamaCare, price controls
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More Liberal Thinking
We can always count on Ezra Klein, one of the Obama propagandists at the Washington Post, to give us great insights into the liberal mind whenever he writes (and not in a good way). In a recent column he argues that there are … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged current events, liberal mind, liberals
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Healthcare Efficiencies
According to Matthew Yglesias, Slate magazine’s central planning enthusiast, healthcare accounts for a large and increasing share of the overall labor force. He seems to suggest that increased efficiency in the healthcare sector (which he evidently expects as a result of the impending government takeover) could generate … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged central planning, healthcare, politics
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The Central Planners Are Coming
Most people use hospitals and see doctors that are located within a few miles of their homes. That is, healthcare is a decidedly local activity. So why are liberals continuing to force a centrally planned system on 315 million Americans spread across … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged central planning, healthcare, liberals, ObamaCare, politics
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ObamaCare And The Youth Vote
Slate’s Amanda Marcotte boasts that ObamaCare is already providing benefits for younger people, which in Marcotte’s view is good because it will help Obama with the youth vote in the upcoming election. According to Marcotte, the percentage of uninsured young adults declined between … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare, Politics
Tagged contraception, healthcare, ObamaCare, politics
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College Tuition
Apparently this is how it works: 1. The government throws money at higher education, 2. Colleges raise tuition, 3. The government throws more money at higher education (total student debt is now about $1 trillion), 4. Colleges raise tuition. The liberals’ … Continue reading
Difference In Kind
In her WSJ column, Kimberley Strassel outlines what Americans can expect to see from Obama in a second term: higher taxes, greater spending, growing deficits, fine tuning of the regulatory apparatus, and continued decline of American influence in foreign affairs. She correctly concludes that … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged big government, capitalism, central planning, price controls
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The Liberals’ Orwellian Strategy
Using Medicare as the backdrop in a recent post, Matthew Yglesias claims that the difference between an economy based on markets and competition and an economy that is centrally planned (of the sort that Obama desires) is “superficial.” According to Yglesias, both types of economy are … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged capitalism, central planning, Orwellian
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“Independent” Experts
A panel of independent experts, in a new medical study, concludes that drugs used to treat mild cases of high blood pressure are not very effective. According to Slate’s Jeanne Lenzer, the study turns “decades of medical dogma” on its head, and she’s especially gaga about … Continue reading
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