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Lessons from Massachusetts
Submitted on 8.29.2007
Massachusetts' health care mandate provides a poor model for the rest of the country -- unless we are looking for an expensive expansion of government. It won't achieve universal care. It has increased government spending, bureaucracy and regulation. It most certainly will prompt increased taxes, says Sally C. Pipes, President and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute.
Dr. Romney Goes National. A Republican health-care plan.
Submitted on 8.27.2007
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney laid out his health-care plan on Friday in Florida. The former Massachusetts governor has earned both contentious criticism and accolades for working with Democrats to reform health-care there while governor. National Review Online asked a group of health-care experts to take a look at what he had to offer Friday. Here are their reactions.
Health Care Amid the Campaigns
Submitted by Carter Wood on 8.27.2007
Sally C. Pipes, head of the Pacific Research Institute, examines the Massachusetts health-care plan, worth special note because it requires everyone to obtain health insurance -- the so-called individual mandate -- if only through a heavily subsidized government plan. (She's a health policy advisor for Rudy Giuliani, and Gov. Romney is the originator of the Massachusetts plan, so this column can be viewed as political critique. On the other hand, she was making these criticisms before signing on with Giuiliani.)
Canadian health system can be nightmare
Submitted by Fred C. Robinson on 8.25.2007
With this letter I should like to add my enthusiastic assent to Sally C. Pipes’s July 27 column, “Sicko slant irksome even in Canada,” and the gross inaccuracy of Michael Moore’s starry-eyed endorsement of Canadian health care.
Lessons from Massachusetts
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 8.23.2007
Health care reform is hot this election season and presidential hopefuls from both parties appear weekly with promises of reforms that will supposedly solve our system's problems with universal coverage at affordable costs. A recent overhaul in Massachusetts that expanded taxpayer-funded health insurance and requires individuals to purchase government-approved policies is proving particularly compelling to many, not the least because its architect, Mitt Romney, is a leading Republican candidate.
Should health insurance be required?
Submitted by Ed Tibbetts on 8.23.2007
Most Americans accept the idea to drive a car they need insurance. But what about health care? Should all Americans be forced to sign up for health insurance?
Mitt's Mythical Massachusetts Miracle
Submitted by Deroy Murdock on 8.22.2007
With his confident style and crowd-pleasing smile, Ames, Iowa, straw-poll winner Willard Mitt Romney looks like a formidable contender for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination. If he's lucky, he can leave voters so dazzled that they ignore his record.
A nation sold on drugs
Submitted by John R. Graham on 8.20.2007
Melissa Healy's series examining the pharmaceutical industry's influence on doctors and patients ignores a key reality. Physicians have absolute control over their relationship with Big Pharma by virtue of their professional monopoly on prescribing medicines.
More lies from Moore
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 8.7.2007
In "Sicko," Michael Moore uses a clip of my appearance earlier this year on "The O'Reilly Factor" to introduce a segment on the glories of Canadian health care.
The Universal Distraction
Submitted by Arnold Kling on 8.7.2007
The Pacific Research Institute's John Graham offered this glum assessment during a brief chat recently when he came to Washington, DC for a meeting. He points out that the focus of health care policy is on how to get to "universal coverage." In this context, the conservative approach involves mandatory health insurance. The liberal approach involves expanding government coverage. Hence, it is either fascism or Communism.
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