In the ongoing health care debate, it is often difficult to understand the complexity of the problems that are going to be caused by rising health care costs over the next few years. With the population aging and programs like Medicare quickly running out of funds, there are few easy answers about how...
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John Hanlon
on 08-06-2009
Filed under: economics, health care reform, John Hanlon
"But I'm happy to report that it has succeeded well beyond our expectations and all expectations, and we're already seeing a dramatic increase in showroom traffic at local car dealers." -Barack Obama President Obama recently used the aforementioned quote in declaring victory in the...
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John Hanlon
on 08-03-2009
Filed under: Cash for Clunkers, economics, fact check, John Hanlon
This week, the House passed a bill that imposes further regulations on financial firms - on executive pay which is bad enough in itself, and to add insult to injury, on the way those firms and employees do business. The bill is "aimed at preventing financial firms from adopting compensation systems...
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Despina Karras
on 08-02-2009
Filed under: economy, capitalism, free market, business concerns, investors, economic crisis, regulation, government, economics, federal government, action, government intrusion, government expansion
Unlike our President and many of our representatives in Congress, I've tried to read the 1000+ page health care bill a few times this week. As a lawyer, I'm used to dealing with tedious and confusing legal jargon, yet this monolithic bill is still too hard for me to understand. It proposes drastic...
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Despina Karras
on 07-22-2009
Filed under: free market, stimulus package, stimulus, universal health care, Heritage Foundation, insurance, economics, federal government, health care benefits, health care tax, "the demands of this moment", health care reform, deadlines