Far be it from me to not give credit where it is due. Unlike what I detailed last night in the inaugural edition of the Choice and Competition Death Watch, it should be pointed out that the new federal health care legislation did actually create a new choice in many states. A key piece of the legislation was the creation of a new set of | Read More »
On the campaign trail and all through the first year of his administration, President Obama touted the benefits of his health care plan. One of the often repeated phrases that his legislation sought to increase choice and competition in the health market. Across the right it was widely predicted that the kind of legislation that the President was seeking would provide for just the opposite | Read More »
On Tuesday, Missouri voters went to the polls. Among other things, the voters decided on Proposition C, a statute exempting Missouri from the individual mandate from Obamacare. By an overwhelming percentage, voters rejected Obamacare and passed Prop C (71.1 to 28.9). This ardent rejection of the individual mandate puts Missouri voters on par with then-Candidate Obama who, during the 2008 primary, attacked Sen Hillary Clinton’s | Read More »
It’s the bad idea that just won’t die: the public option. Progressives have been pushing a government run “option” to private health insurance as some sort of panacea over the last few years. Their vision is that a government that has shown itself to be second to none in cost over-runs and bloat will somehow magically be able to operate more effectively and efficiently than | Read More »
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote a very dishonest op-ed ["Defending the Indefensible"] attacking what they call “opponents of health reform”. Here is my response that I left for them on their web site: I guess this is one way to win an argument. 1. Claim that your opponents are arguing for something that they aren’t. Who exactly has put forward a plan that says “Keep | Read More »
This is Elston McCowan. Elston K. McCowan is a former organizer – now the Public Service Director of SEIU Local 2000 – and board member of the Walbridge Community Education Center, and is a Baptist minister, has been a community organizer for more than 23 years, and now, he is running for Mayor of the City of St. Louis under the banner of the Green | Read More »
All over the country, people (on both the left and the right) are trying to figure out how we are going to solve the problem of health care. The choices run the gamut from free market solutions to full government take-over of the funding and running of the health system. What is often forgotten in the debate is discovering what the problem really is. Currently, | Read More »
The Heritage Foundation has pointed out that the pending stimulus legislation includes a provision in it that would subsidize COBRA to the tune of $30.3 billion. For a quick primer (or reminder for those who know what COBRA is), let’s see how the U.S. Department of Labor defines the program: The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) gives workers and their families who lose their | Read More »
Promoted from the Diaries by Jeff. Under former Governor Mitt Romney, the state of Massachusetts undertook the largest single step towards single payer health care of any government entity in the United States to date. It has created a myriad of problems, chief of which is a massive headache for those who are now forced to pay for insurance that they never wanted or can’t | Read More »
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