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Tag: Health care

In health care debate, can we trust the president?

In the health care debate, President Obama pleads with Americans to get the facts straight before making up their minds. But that’s easier said than done, and by his actions, I wonder if the president really believes this.

September 22, 2009
Fact-checking the president on health insurance

Advocates for more government control over health care, including President Obama, cite cases where people have been abused by private health insurance companies. We ought to be sure that these cases are real, and we need to be aware of the scope of the problem, before we assign weight to these arguments.

September 18, 2009
Articles of Interest

Van Jones, Jay Leno, smoking in Kansas, Obama’s health care speech.

September 14, 2009
Health care reform threatens anesthesiology, patients

While doctors aren’t the only source of information we should use when considering health care reform, they are on the front lines of providing care, and so their insights are valuable. Recently, Ronald Dworkin contributed An Anesthesiologist’s Take on Health-Care Reform to the Wall Street Journal. He makes some good observations on doctors in general,…

September 14, 2009
Health Czar, interrupted

The Sam Adams Alliance presents another humorous look at health care reform in American. The first, Health rations and you, was very popular on YouTube. Now: “After months of Americans happily sacrificing for the Health Administration Bureau, Health Czar O’Brien holds his first press conference, ready to answer the tough questions.”

September 11, 2009
Death goes to Washington

Wichita activist Wendy Aylworth has taken her cause, Morticians for National Health Care to Washington. This group, a tongue-in-cheek preview of the future Wendy believes we face under ObamaCare, seeks to inject a little humor and satire into the debate over health care reform.

September 11, 2009
President Obama’s health care speech

Speaking to a joint session of Congress and the American people, President Barack Obama laid out his latest vision for health care reform.

September 9, 2009
Health care video fails to make case for universal, “socialized” medicine

A video that’s getting some viewers on Youtube (235,000 as of this moment) serves as an illustration of how wrong the left is in its prescription for health care reform.

September 8, 2009
Government institutions not role model for health care

One of the arguments used to promote more government involvement in the provision of health care is this: government already provides so many services, and government does it so well, that we ought to turn over medicine to it too.

September 6, 2009