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Pawlentycare Vs. Obamacare
By: John R. Graham
1.4.2011
Over at The Atlantic, Nicole Russell has given us “A First Look at Pawlentycare.” There’s little doubt that Tim Pawlenty, former governor of Minnesota, is eager to trumpet his state’s achievements on health-care reform, and he definitely talks the talk of consumer-driven health care. I was very impressed by an op-ed he wrote in the San Diego Union-Tribune last November, wherein he called for “repealing Obamacare state by state”. There is no doubt that Governor Pawlenty executed some changes in the right direction — the Flexible Benefit Plan, for example, allowed employers more flexibility of health benefits. He’s also a champion of using prices, and allowing patients more control of how their health dollars are spent. Doing this for public-sector workers resulted in lower costs to taxpayers.
But there is also more of a whiff of big-government conservatism in Pawlentycare.
Read more at National Review Online.
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