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Raising The Medicare Eligibility Age Would Not Increase Costs
In Medicare discussions, the suggestion arises from time to time that we could reduce federal spending by raising the Medicare eligibility age, for example, from 65 to 67. The popular liberal response (see e.g., this Kaiser Family Foundation report) is that raising Medicare’s eligibility age actually … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged budget deficit, health insurance, healthcare reform, Medicare
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Wise Boy Should Wise Up
According to the Wise Boy (aka Ezra Klein), the sequestration (automatic across-the-board spending cuts) proves that the U.S. government is “dumb.” Yeah, for Klein everything is dumb except more taxes and spending. He especially loves the high tax recommendations of the deficit reduction … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged big government, budget deficit, ezra klein, sequestration, taxation
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Sequestration Hysteria
With the sequester about to take effect, the liberal propagandists are beside themselves. According to liberals, Republicans must become Democrats and any who refuse are sick or crazy. David Ignatius of WaPo characterizes Republicans as a bunch of alcohol addicted drunk drivers who … Continue reading
More Medicare Is Not The Answer
Matthew Yglesias is again misrepresenting Medicare, advocating that more of it is the answer to high healthcare prices. As Steven Brill has pointed out, tightening the antitrust laws is the real answer to the problem (although Brill may not really believe his own … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged big government, central planning, liberal mind, Matthew Yglesias, ObamaCare
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Break Up The Big Hospitals
In his Time magazine cover story, Steven Brill criticized the prices that M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston charges patients. In an op-ed piece appearing in the Wash-ington Post, a couple of the hospital’s doctors step forward evidently to defend their employer against Brill’s criticism. And no … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged antitrust, central planning, price controls
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Healthcare Prices
In his lengthy cover article for Time magazine, Steven Brill argues that the first question in the healthcare policy debate should be “why are the bills so high,” rather than blowing past that issue to ask who should pay. Most of his … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged antitrust, big government, competition, Matthew Yglesias, price controls, Steven Brill
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Orwellian Word Games
Ezra Klein is again making an Orwellian argument to mislead readers, this time about taxes and spending. It appears that Klein, other liberals, and even a few misguided Republicans have agreed to use another word for “taxes,” especially those taxes that relate to what has become known as tax expenditures. … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged budget deficit, ezra klein, government spending, liberal mind, Orwellian, propaganda, tax expenditures, tax rates, taxation
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Obama Is Not A Centrist
Liberals love to misuse language to obscure their policies and plans for America. Government spending is characterized as “investment,” gun control is renamed gun “safety,” price controls are “cost containment” measures, and proposed legislation that would eliminate the secret ballot in union elections is called … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged authoritarians, big government, centrist, current events, divided nation, freedom, liberals, ObamaCare, political spectrum
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Liberals And Redskins
Well, about once a year, various liberals at the Washington Post pull out and dust off their old columns in which they claim the nickname of Washington D.C.’s professional football team is offensive, racist, etc., and demand that the team change its … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Sports
Tagged current events, liberals, racism, Redskins, sports mascots
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Ezra Klein: The Wise Boy
First, NBC News publishes a column online touting Hillary Clinton’s “defining moments” that included no accomplishments, and now The New Republic has come out with a veri-table love letter to liberal propagandist Ezra Klein, a/k/a Alfred E. Neuman (check out his Washington Post photo), that is equally light on … Continue reading
Posted in People, Politics
Tagged Alfred E. Neuman, big government, current events, ezra klein, liberal mind, self government
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