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Obama and Clinton have been in a much-publicized spat over their respective health care plans. And while it’s true that Clinton’s would force absolutely everyone to purchase insurance and Obama’s would not, the thing to remember is that both are bad. The Wall Street Journal breaks it down for us:

“Universal” health care is of course […]

Universal health care: It’s free! It’s easy! It’s what the government wants to do for you, right!
Well, if you listen to most of the liberal health care advocates, that’s what you’ll hear.  Problem is, in places where it’s actually been implemented, it’s not true.   See today’s UK Telegraph for Britain’s National Health Service Minister explaining […]

Tonight is a very important night. Not only will the endless TV and radio commercials finally stop, but I get to caucus! I’ll show up early to East High School in Sioux City- still undecided- to join in the democratic process. I’ll let the campaign members try to convince me. If they don’t, I’m caucusing […]

What’s the single easiest thing we could do to fix health insurance?  Allow individuals to purchase insurance across state lines, thus creating a national market and quickly, efficiently deregulating the options for every person in every state.   Right now, Rep. John Shadegg has a bill that would do just that.
The CEI blog quotes a WSJ […]

With little fanfare, President Bush vetoed the dreaded SCHIP for the second time last night. The Washington Times has the full story here. Bush’s comments are pretty much right on - SCHIP puts too many adults and people who can afford their own insurance on the government rolls. The President even seemed to acknowledge, […]

CAFE standards are a favorite of the alt energy crowd, but my former colleague Marlo Lewis explains at NRO today exactly how the two drives could be incompatible:
Tough new fuel economy standards could backfire in a more fundamental way. With oil selling at close to $100 a barrel, a bonanza awaits the first automaker to […]

John Edwards is telling people that if not for health insurance lobbyists, we’d all have universal health care. “We need to take away their power!” he says.
Too bad HMOs were in favor of S-CHIP, the biggest attempt to expand the government’s health-care rolls in recent history.  As Tim Carney recently reported in […]

In his New York Times column today, Paul Krugman provides a frightenly blunt explanation of the liberal rationale for health-care mandates:
The central question is whether there should be a health insurance “mandate”– a requirement that everyone sign up for health insurance, even if they don’t think they need it. The Edwards and Clinton plans have […]

The Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank funded to the hilt by George Soros, has released a series of ads arguing for “progressivism.”  It’s part of a recent effort by the Left to rebrand itself because of the negative connotations that have come to be associated with the word “liberal.” Two of the […]

Andrew Sullivan isn’t convinced by Jon Cohn’s argument that government-run health care won’t have any serious effect on medical innovation. Taking issue with Cohn’s idea that “The goal is to reduce our spending moderately and carefully,” Sullivan writes:
And why should we reduce spending at all if we don’t want to and the market reflects it? […]