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Competition Deniers
In this post at The Incidental Economist, Aaron Carroll agrees that Obamacare may cause hospital layoffs, but tells us that’s to be expected because, after all, if we contain costs, there will be less money for wages and profits. And Carroll further concludes that the result would … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged Aaron Carroll, big government, central planning, competition, free markets, ObamaCare
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Embracing Central Authority
WaPo columnist Anne Applebaum sees the GOP as endangering democracy by closing the government in an attempt to stop Obamacare. In her column, Applebaum implies (see here) that those who resist Obamacare are members of an “irrational fringe” and no better than “insurgents” or “coup plotters” who should be … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged Anne Applebaum, big government, government shutdown, ObamaCare
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Succinct Wise Boy
So now Wise Boy a/k/a Ezra Klein adopts this single sentence from a book written by Thomas Mann and Norm Ornstein to describe our current governing crisis: The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics — it is ideolog-ically extreme; … Continue reading
The Congressional Exemption From Obamacare
Finally a conservative steps up to criticize the argument made by other conservatives that the administration is giving Congress special treatment by exempting it from the require-ments of Obamacare. In an article at National Review Online, Patrick Brennan explains that “congressional employees aren’t receiving a special handout” … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare, Politics
Tagged congressional exemption, federal employees, Obamacare exemption, Ted Cruz
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Defying The Feds
Well, although healthcare is a local activity, Obamacare is now placing one-sixth of the world’s largest economy under the thumb of the central authority – authority to which liberals meekly acquiesce. The best liberals can do in support of freedom and self-government is … Continue reading
Prosecuting Those Responsible For The Financial Crisis
So now liberals can’t figure out why no one has been prosecuted for their role in the financial crisis. For example, Neil Irwin of Wonkblog finds it shocking that: [For] a crisis that drove the global economy off a cliff, caused millions of people … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged Benghazi, Dodd-Frank, financial crisis, Hillary Clinton, ObamaCare, Wall Street
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Abusing Language
Usually it’s liberals who abuse language in the best Orwellian tradition, but evidently not wanting to be left behind, conservatives have now joined the party. In an article at the National Review Online, John Fund discusses a provision in the Obamacare … Continue reading
The Nature Of The Firm
In a rambling post at the blog The Determined Statist (aka The Incidental Economist), Harold Pollack touches on several topics that ostensibly relate to the work of Ronald Coase, a Nobel Prize winning economist who died recently at the age of 102. Pollack … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged big government, central planning, Matthew Yglesias, Ronald Coase, The Incidental Economist
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Obamacare Alternative
In two separate posts (here and here) at the blog The Incidental Economist, Aaron Carroll, a determined advocate for centrally directed healthcare, is upset and frustrated with the critics of Obamacare and suggests they propose some “sensible alternatives that actually address the policy issues.” Well, … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged Aaron Carroll, central planning, competition, health policy, ObamaCare
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Healthcare Pricing
A recent post at the blog Project Millennial outlines some of the issues relating to health-care as understood by liberals. According to the post, healthcare prices are a “total mess” because “list prices” vary immensely from provider to provider and the price … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged competition, health policy, healthcare costs, healthcare prices, price controls, Project Millennial
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