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Shocked, Shocked: AHIP Caves
By: Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D
3.31.2010
The insurance industry announced today that it would not dispute the Obama administration interpretation of the requirement for insurance "coverage" (subsidies) of children with pre-existing medical conditions. And why should they? The new law transforms the insurers into public utilities, and premiums will have to cover costs plus a fair and reasonable return.
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Repeal Means Repeal
By: Jeffrey H. Anderson, Ph.D
3.24.2010
Less than three days after the passage of Obamacare, many Republicans are already losing their stomach for the fight.As Ezra Klein gleefully — but aptly — observes over at the Washington Post, “In about 12 hours, the GOP's position has gone from ‘repeal this socialist monstrosity that will destroy our final freedoms’ to ‘there are some things we don't like about this legislation and would like to repeal, and there are some things we support and would like to keep.’ . . . At this rate, they'll be running on expanding the bill come November.”
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They Still Don’t Have the Votes
By: Jeffrey H. Anderson, Ph.D
3.20.2010
The most likely explanation for the breakdown of talks between Rep. Bart Stupak and Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not that Pelosi decided she didn’t need Stupak and his crew in order to have enough votes to pass Obamacare. Rather, it is that Stupak — who is increasingly emerging as this drama’s Jefferson Smith (Jimmy Stewart’s heroic character in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) — held firm in insisting on language that would truly prevent taxpayer-funded abortions, and in insisting that such language be passed by the Senate before the bill could become law.
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