Former Reason magazine Editor in Chief Virginia Postrel has seen the strengths and the shortcomings of the American health care system both as a kidney donor and a breast cancer survivor. She argues that individuals should be free to sell their organs, and that encouraging organ markets may be the best way to save the lives of the more than 100,000 Americans currently awaiting transplants. A 2009 article Postrel wrote for the Atlantic Monthly highlights her experience with the ultra-expensive wonder drug, Herceptin, and the perils of centrally controlling health care costs
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Like a Tupperware container full of smelly mystery meat, Nancy Pelosi says that the only way we can find out exactly what’s in the health care bill is to try it : You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention—it’s about diet, not diabetes. It’s going to be very, very exciting. But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy. [emphasis added] The slightly better version of this argument, which is that voters will like ObamaCare better once it’s passed and they get used to it, isn’t very convincing either
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Nancy Pelosi on Health Care: “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
Since he first presented his vision of health care reform, President Obama has addressed the issue of how his plan would affect people’s current coverage with varying degrees of accuracy and honesty.
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If You Like Obama’s Lies About Your Health Care Plan, He Can Keep Lying About Your Health Care Plan
Sarah Palin haters and health-care refrom advocates have been having a field day with this quote made by Sarah Palin at a speech in Canada: My first five years of life we spent in Skagway, Alaska, right there by Whitehorse. Believe it or not — this was in the ’60s — we used to hustle on over the border for health care that we would receive in Whitehorse.
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About That “Sarah Palin Going To Canada For Health Care” Story…
There are no dead dogs, lying informants, or flash grenades, but this story from Greensburg, Indiana , really captures the mundane stupidity, utter dissonance, and day-to-day waste of resources that is America’s drug war.
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Sleep Safe, Greensburg. You Won’t Have To Worry About These Monsters Anymore.
Not much of anyone, it seems : As Democrats tried to rustle up support for their plan, a new Gallup Poll found that just half of the nation is confident Obama is recommending the right policies for revamping the health care system. Fewer Americans, 37%, had confidence in Democratic lawmakers, and only about a third expressed confidence in Republicans. For Republicans, this is bad news but not really unexpected; the public hasn’t trusted the GOP on health care in recent memory, and the party’s strategy was primarily to block the Democrats’ plans, not to bolster support for their own.
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Who Americans Trust on Health Care Policy
“It may have taken over 30 years, but punk music and fashion, once a grim specter threatening Western civilization (or at least adult eardrums and aesthetic sensibilities) have gone totally mainstream,” writes Nick Gillespie in a review of the oral history of punk in the Bay Area, Gimme Something Better . Was it worth all the shouting, screaming, vomiting—and the gloriously insane episodes of Quincy, M.E. ? View this article
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New at Reason: Nick Gillespie on the Profane, Pointless…and Profound Impact of Punk Culture
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is pushing a 2-cent-per-ounce tax on sweetened beverages, which would be the highest such levy in the country. The Philadelphia Inquirer says it’s a way to “treat the city’s weight and wallet problems…with the same remedy.” You could also say it’s a way to take people’s hard-earned money while simultaneously meddling in their personal choices, but politically that might be less appealing. Nutter’s proposed tax is 35 times the state’s beer tax, 10 times as heavy as Chicago’s soda tax, and twice the rate advocated by anti-fat crusader Kelly Brownell, who is overjoyed at the thought of forcing poor people to forsake their favorite beverages.
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It’s a Nutter Idea, and It Just Might Not Work
Ron Hart on bipartisanship: We should be delighted there is no bipartisanship in Washington. Bipartisanship brings about bad decisions, like the Iraq War. The Democrats had 60 votes for ObamaCare which they had to bribe some of their Senators to secure—the bill is that bad
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No Cheers For Bipartisanship
The President gave what one can only hope is his truly-and-really-for-real-this-time-not-gonna-happen-again final pitch for health care reform this afternoon, framing his latest proposal—which amounts to a House/Senate plan casserole with a little bit of GOP flavor sprinkled on top—as a bid to reign in abusive, out of control insurance companies. Contrary to rumors that circulated earlier in the week , the speech did not back down from existing plans or substitute a smaller proposal.
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Health Care’s Final Countdown Begins
