OPINION MARCH 26, 2010 ObamaCare: Repeal, Replace or What? Editor’s Note: We asked five opponents of government-directed health care for their thoughts on our new health-care entitlement. Specifically: Now that ObamaCare is law, how should Republicans respond? Should they work to repeal some or all of it, and do they need to offer an alternative […]
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REVIEW & OUTLOOK MARCH 27, 2010 The ObamaCare Writedowns It’s been a banner week for Democrats: ObamaCare passed Congress in its final form on Thursday night, and the returns are already rolling in. Yesterday AT&T announced that it will be forced to make a $1 billion writedown due solely to the health bill, in what
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MARCH 27, 2010 ‘Basically an Optimist’—Still Gary Becker By PETER ROBINSON Stanford, Calif. ‘No, no. Not at all.” So says Gary Becker when asked if the financial collapse, the worst recession in a quarter of a century, and the rise of an administration intent on expanding the federal government have prompted him to reconsider his
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New York Times March 21, 2010 Op-Ed Contributor The Real Arithmetic of Health Care Reform By DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN Arlington, Va. ON Thursday, the Congressional Budget Office reported that, if enacted, the latest health care reform legislation would, over the next 10 years, cost about $950 billion, but because it would raise some revenues and lower
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REVIEW & OUTLOOK MARCH 25, 2010 Reconciling Mr. Nelson The Senate began work Tuesday on the House’s “reconciliation” bill that will add even more taxes and spending to ObamaCare. Guess who’s already declared himself firmly, forthrightly, unabashedly in opposition? None other than Ben Nelson, who on Christmas Eve became the most famous Nebraskan not named
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REVIEW & OUTLOOK MARCH 25, 2010 ObamaCare Day One Democrats dragged themselves over the health-care finish line in part by repeating that voters would like the plan once it passed. Let’s see what they think when they learn their insurance costs will jump right away. Even before President Obama signed the bill on Tuesday, Caterpillar
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By KARL ROVE Democrats are celebrating victory. The public outcry against what they’ve done doesn’t seem to bother them. They take it as validation that they are succeeding at transforming America. But we’ve seen this movie before and it won’t end happily for Democrats. Their morale rose when the stimulus passed in February 2009. The
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Mark Steyn Wednesday, 24 March 2010 All this week, in the wake of the health care bill, we’re looking back at some of my broader takes on the issue, and its implications. I think most of the points in this piece from last summer stand up pretty well: Health care is a game-changer. The permanent game-changer.
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The president says electronic systems will reduce costs and improve quality, but they could undermine good care if people are afraid to confide in their doctors. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703580904575132111888664060.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_opinion Mar 24, 2010 By DEBORAH C. PEEL I learned about the lack of health privacy when I hung out my shingle as a psychiatrist. Patients asked if I
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Special Editorial: Repeal BY William Kristol March 22, 2010 9:00 AM The editors of National Review sensibly counsel conservatives, in the wake of last night’s victory for Obamacare: “‘Nil desperandum’–never despair.” I agree, though I’m more inclined to the mock-Latin motto of the Harvard band: “Illegitimi non carborundum”–don’t let the bastards get you down. Why
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