Category Archives: Health
Mad Soybean Disease
The USDA has averted – we hope – an outbreak of “mad cow disease” in the United States. James Mackintosh tweets this hilarious timeline, based on the British experience – meat sales collapse, government insists safe, politico shows kids eating burgers, … Continue reading
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Don’t Eat That!
AFA Foods has filed for bankruptcy following a media campaign against their “finely textured beef” product, also known as pink slime. The surviving producer, Beef Products, Inc., will mount a defensive campaign of their own. The beef scraps, which might … Continue reading
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ObamaCare’s Weakest Link
The Affordable Care Act has some problems, but the individual mandate is not one of them. Conservatives are attacking this provision, on constitutional grounds, simply to poke holes in the Act. This is an ironic position for conservatives, who ought … Continue reading
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David Frum’s Waterloo
Congratulations to David Frum on his induction as a centrist. He was sacked from his job at the American Enterprise Institute after criticizing Republicans for their role in the health care debacle. Among other things, Mr. Frum says that Republicans … Continue reading
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Health Care Disaster
Well, that was a partisan debacle. Speaker Pelosi put too much energy into “making history” and not enough into reading it. Johnson-era lawmakers could not predict that their programs would later drag America toward bankruptcy. Today, we can, and House … Continue reading
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A Modest Proposal
Jeremiah’s vision for health insurance is a broad national market like the one for auto insurance. Everyone will buy it, and insurers will compete on cost and service. Health insurers will then drive innovation and cost control, as the IIHS … Continue reading
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A Clean Bill of Health
Democrats in Congress need a fallback plan, to save their health-care bill in case they lose a Senate seat in today’s election. Here’s a plan they seem to have overlooked: work with the Republicans. Jeremiah wrote back in October that … Continue reading
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Obesity is Subsidized
Viewers of the hit documentary, Food Inc, are invited to blame the industry’s sins on capitalism. The markets are not to blame, but rather distortions in the market created by lax regulation and perverse incentives. American taxpayers spend roughly $5 … Continue reading
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Enemy of the People
Senator Joe Lieberman vows to filibuster any health bill that includes a public option. You have read his opinion here before. Kudos to Mr. Lieberman for voting his conscience. He has already been kicked out of the Democratic Party. Response … Continue reading
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Veto Partisan Health Bill
There is no good reason to pass costly healthcare legislation this year, with the economy in recession and the federal budget in a record deficit. The only reason is a craven, partisan one. House Democrats, led by Speaker Pelosi, have … Continue reading
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