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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Supreme Court Justice John Roberts tosses belated barb at Obama for attacking SCOTUS at SOTU. Israel announces new settlements in East Jerusalem, upstaging Vice President Biden’s meeting with Palestinian leaders
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Reason Morning Links: Roberts Scolds Obama, Israel Disses Biden, Mukasey Slams (Liz) Cheney
In Kentucky, a state legislator lays it on the line with a clarity that is stunning.
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All Politics is Local or, I Won’t Take “Free” Money if You Don’t Take “Free” Revenue
“We allow the insurance industry to run wild in this country,” President Obama declared on Monday. “We can’t have a system that works better for the insurance companies than it does for the American people.” Despite this rhetoric, Senior Editor Jacob Sullum argues, Obama’s plan to tame health insurers would boost their business, protect them from competition, and guarantee their profits, all at the expense of consumers and taxpayers
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New at Reason: Jacob Sullum on Obama’s Fake Fight With Insurers
Nancy Pelosi may be convinced that we have to pass health care reform in order to find out what’s in it, but if it passes, there’s at least one provision we can already count on: an individual mandate to buy health insurance. Polling shows that this requirement is one of the bill’s least popular features, so it’s not exactly surprising to find that states are taking action to allow individuals to bypass such requirements. More than 30 states are considering such laws, and a ban on mandatory insurance has already passed in the Virginia Senate .
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Can States Say “No Thanks” to ObamaCare’s Health Insurance Mandate?
A front-page story in USA Today highlights the “growing popular acceptance of marijuana,” as reflected in polls, ballot initiatives, and legislation.
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USA Today Notes ‘Growing Popular Acceptance’ of Pot
On one side, me, on the other side, one of the most pro-labor opinion journalists in the business, the self-described ” Democratic socialist ” Harold Meyerson (read Reason on Meyerson here ). The segment, lasting a half-hour, is called ” Labor Love–Lost
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Listen to Matt Welch Debate Harold Meyerson About Unions on KCRW’s “Politics of Culture” Program Today at 2:30 California Time
In my mailbox yesterday, addressed to “Resident”: You probably got one too! Apparently, it’s Next-Week-Is-Census-Day Day! Once the initial “you have got to be kidding me” response subsided, I called up the folks at the Census Bureau and they were kind enough to send me their canned response to the “are you freaking kidding me?” calls and emails they have been getting all day. Excerpted below: Thank you for your email. We here at the Census Bureau certainly understand your concern, and I want to assure you we care a great deal about being good stewards of the taxpayer’s money…. Based on historical response rates, we expect roughly two thirds of households will mail back their form. The rest we will have to send an enumerator to collect the data required by the Constitution. You can imagine that follow-up is an expensive proposition. In fact, every one percent increase in the number of households who mail back the form saves the taxpayers about $85 million in expensive door-to-door follow up. That’s why we advertise and promote, to increase the mail back response rate and help save on expensive labor to follow up.
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Census Bureau Misses Chance to Create Make-Work Jobs
The Cayman Island Sea Turtle Farm was established by entrepreneur and libertarian hero Antony Fisher in 1968. Unfortunately, the farm went bankrupt when the trade in sea turtle products was banned internationally. Now a government-owned corporation, the farm is a huge tourist attraction supplying turtle meat to the local market; it also releases thousands of turtles into the wild.
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New at Reason: Ronald Bailey on the Deliciousness of Sea Turtle Steak
Reason Contributing Editor Tim Cavanaugh will appear on Neil Cavuto’s Fox Business News show today to discuss the fiscal crisis in Greece and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou’s financial life coaching session with President Obama. Starting at 6pm EST on Fox Business Channel
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Reason Around Town: Tim Cavanaugh Goes Greek With the Number One Name In Business…Cavuto! 6pm EST on FBN
