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From the Editors
Today, President Obama will host members of Congress from both political parties at the White House to discuss health reform. He has already put on the table an ambitious plan that takes elements from the bills already passed by the House and Senate and adds others, such as an agency to control health-insurance premiums.
The fundamental question participants must address is whether to use the president's plan as a starting point for negotiations, or to scrap it and start over.
Our recommendation: scrap it and start over. Its key elements—mandates, heavy-handed insurance regulation, and entitlement-based, middle-income subsidies—must go. None of them address health care's fundamental problem: high and rising costs. Instead, the various versions of health reform put forth by the president and his party are based on expanding health-insurance coverage. The inevitable consequence will be to exacerbate the cost problem. And the American public knows it.
Despite the claims of some partisans to the contrary, the president's plan is failing because it does not speak to the concerns of the majority of Americans. Instead of addressing the high and rising costs of care, it proposes mandates, invasive regulation, and unaffordable new entitlements. This will not bring health-care costs down—it will only make this problem worse.
-By JOHN F. COGAN, GLENN HUBBARD, AND DANIEL KESSLER
For more information about the story, go to Wall Street Journal.
| Wow, none of what anybody has said on here has happened or is, even true. I guess truth just gets in the way of all that racist and partisan hatred. |
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| Jo Losturo - Apr 01, 2010 04:23:16 AM | Remove Comment |
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| Just like the legal drugs we take, Canada brings them to market years before us and if there is a problem with them, they ban them. The FDA then ignores this and looks at the 6 week theory test of long term use and approves the drugs banned by Canada. Canada has had a Universal Health Care for many years, so why are we trying to make up something without just following in the footsteps of a proven plan? |
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| What a Joke - Mar 26, 2010 09:47:08 AM | Remove Comment |
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| Floridians
Vote OUT the following Democratic Representatives who have voted YES for the health care bill
Hit the PRINT button on your computer and hang this on your frig for the NOVEMBER ELECTION.
Congressman F. Allen Boyd, Jr. VOTE NO
Congressman Corrine Brown VOTE NO
Congressman Allan Mark Grayson VOTE NO
Congressman Katherine Castor VOTE NO
Congressman Kendrick MEEK VOTE NO
Congressman Robert Wexler VOTE NO
Congressman Debbie Schultz VOTE NO
Congressman Rob Klein VOTE NO
Congressman Alcee Hastings VOTE NO
Congressman Suzanne Kosmas VOTE NO
They are vote 'THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE' and they took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States.
They have violated both tenets.
VOTE THEM OUT. |
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| DefendUrRights - Mar 21, 2010 01:00:53 PM | Remove Comment |
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| Rep. Harry Mitchell is voting YES on the health care bill.
This is okay with Arizona? Medicare will be CUT by 500 BILLION dollars - and the money will go to build another bureaucracy that will serve the poor and the illegals.
ELDERLY - SACRIFICED FOR THE YOUNG AND HEALTH
HARRY MITCHELL SHOULD be voted OUT.
Help his opponent by becoming active! |
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| DefendUrRights - Mar 20, 2010 06:41:21 PM | Remove Comment |
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| I agree somewhat with the article in that costs must be reigned-in. It has become common knowledge that costs for medical care are vastly inflated by providers because those costs are paid for by insurance companies. There is not enough oversight to sort out the fraudulent fleecing by so-called doctors who gouge Social Security and Medicare shamelessly. The program offered by the Obama Administration offers us a place to start with regard to regulating costs. I say, give it a chance. |
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| Tom Jamees - Mar 20, 2010 05:16:28 AM | Remove Comment |
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| Right now is the time we should come together and vote this bill in for all American's. We should back this president that has done above and beyond the work to get this bill passed. When the fraud that has been going on all these years is stopped you will see that this bill was paid for by most of what we were being charged before and the fraudulent procedures of some medical people. Let's get this passed in 2010. |
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| Cornice - Mar 03, 2010 12:51:44 PM | Remove Comment |
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| "President Obama proposes mandates, invasive regulation, and unaffordable new entitlements."
Unfavorable to whom? Corporations, stockholders, and or The Freedom Newspaper Group?
Stop obstructing justice long enough to save the republic and support your president. |
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| mizdaice - Mar 01, 2010 05:25:53 PM | Remove Comment |
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| I just saw a program on tv where this Dr. was explaining why medical care is so expensive. He showed the costs of a IV at 250 dollars, the actual costs of the bag and sugar water is more like $1 and a stapel gun, sold for $1200, which actually costs only $22 to make, but because its medical, they jack the price up to take advantage of sick people, its nothing more than a racket. Do this in other business and see what happens. |
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| roger - Feb 28, 2010 04:33:29 PM | Remove Comment |
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| I understand President Obama just had his first physical since in office. Who pays for his medical exams, etc. ? |
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| Carol O\'Neill - Feb 28, 2010 03:56:34 PM | Remove Comment |
