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All About Health Care: The Best of the Blogs
Today, all of the columns we published on the site are about health care. To complement that, we've selected some of our favorite blog posts about health care from the last two months or so. If you're unfamiliar with the AIP blog, please browse around a bit--and know that we address your concerns about health care reforms nearly every day. (Sign up for our RSS feed to be sure you don't miss a post.)

  • Government Health Care = Loss of Life, Liberty + the Pursuit of Happiness

    A recent column on CBC.ca written as an open letter to Americans provides somewhat of a defense of the Canadian health care system. Much of what writer Neil Macdonald says betrays the insidious ways in which being beholden to the government, such as with universal health care, leads to the loss of or...
    Posted to AIP Blog by Alexa Shrugged on Fri, Jun 5 2009

  • It's Now or Never for a True Conservative Health Care Alternative

    President Obama said on Thursday that the time is now or never for health reform, which means it is also the time for conservative alternatives to Obamacare. Ryan Ellis, Tax Policy Director for Americans for Tax Reform , writes on Red State that the current solution proposed by Congressional Republicans...
    Posted to AIP Blog by Alexa Shrugged on Fri, May 29 2009

  • Health Care Plan Could Add Massive New Tax

    A national sales tax may or may not be a good idea, depending upon the terms of the tax, the rate of the tax, and whether or not it replaces the national income tax. Assuming it is meant to supplement the income tax, not replace it, a national sales tax would constitute a monstrous tax increase that...
    Posted to AIP Blog by Justin Higgins on Thu, May 28 2009

  • Health Care: U.S. vs. the Rest

    John C. Goodman has an excellent piece in the May 25, 2009 issue of National Review magazine refuting many of the myths of U.S. health care compared to Western socialized health care. It turns out that people who utilize U.S. health care are better off in almost every category. Better science and health...
    Posted to AIP Blog by Alexa Shrugged on 22 May 2009

  • The Politics of Health Care Reform

    A recent Rasmussen poll shows mixed feelings about the upcoming health care reform debate that many expect the Congress to engage in this summer. According to the poll , “Forty-two percent (42%) of Americans say every one in the United States should have free health care. The latest Rasmussen Reports...
    Posted to AIP Blog by John Hanlon on 21 May 2009

  • Health Care Reform: Now We Just Have to Pay For It

    After hearing the President's call for expensive health care reform without any sort of detail again and again, Senators Max Baucus and Chuck Grassley have released the options for financing this effort . If you're one of the 95% of American workers receiving a "broad and sweeping tax cut...
    Posted to AIP Blog by Karen Untereker on 19 May 2009
    Filed under: health care

  • Warning: British health care is coming!

    The battle over health care reform is really starting to ramp up and one British doctor is sounding the alarm about President Obama's plan for "comparative effectiveness research." Oncologist Karol Sikora recently submitted an op-ed to the Manchester Union-Leader with the dire warning that...
    Posted to AIP Blog by Alexa Shrugged on 15 May 2009

  • Adding more bureacracy to "unsustainable" government spending

    In New Mexico yesterday, President Obama spoke about the issue of massive governmental spending. According to a Bloomberg News article , “President Barack Obama , calling current deficit spending 'unsustainable,' warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues...
    Posted to AIP Blog by John Hanlon on 15 May 2009

  • Single Payer Health Care Off The Table?

    In what will be good news for many proponents of a capitalist health care solution, President Obama announced today that a single payer health care system, like some of the socialist programs of Europe, is off the table. While this is good news, he also made it clear that he would push for the big government...
    Posted to AIP Blog by Justin Higgins on 14 May 2009

  • A Soda Tax To Pay For Obama-Care?

    Late last year , New York Governor David Paterson proposed a 15% "obesity tax" on non-diet soda to help close the state budget gap. The idea was so unpopular, Paterson had to axe the idea in March. Despite the warning, Democrats in congress, determined to find a way to pay for Barack Obama's...
    Posted to AIP Blog by Matt Margolis on 13 May 2009

  • We Know The Cost, We Don't Know The Savings

    Last week, I wrote about the $635 billion pricetag on President Obama's planned health care reforms. The retooling of the system would cost 150 percent of the cost of the omnibus spending bill and roughly 80 percent of the cost of the stimulus bill, to put it in perspective. While this number is...
    Posted to AIP Blog by Justin Higgins on 12 May 2009

  • Health care companies to cut costs: what's in it for them?

    "An unrivaled set of abstractions and posturing," is how a Boston University Professor of Health Policy described the announcement that health companies (insurers, providers and drug companies) have promised to enact $2 trillion in cost-cutting measures over the next 10 years. This ceremonial...
    Posted to AIP Blog by Despina D. Karras on 12 May 2009

  • $635 Billion, And That's Just The Beginning...

    The Obama Administration has been pushing Congress for major health care reforms for the last couple months, and Liberals in Congress have been easier to embrace the big government model that the President is pushing. It's very likely that Conservatives and some more moderate members of the Senate...
    Posted to AIP Blog by Justin Higgins on 7 May 2009
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