John LaPlante
Wednesday, August 26, 2009Personal Choices Affect Health Care StatsBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareIt's easy to forget that health and health care are two different things, though they do affect each other. Personal choices make a difference in the quality of a person's ... more »»
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009The Ad that ABC Doesn't Want You to SeeBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareSomething called the League of American Voters says that it wants to purchase advertising time on ABC for a thirty-second spot, but was denied. They call it a "brazen act of censorship." That's a bit overwrought--I prefer to call it ... more »»
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009Medicare for All as the Golden CalfCatholic priest on the idolatry of the religious left By John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareFor the Christian, "love thy neighbor" is right up there with "love the Lord thy God." Should that compel the Christian to lobby for a health care industry that's heavily regulated if not controlled by government? Not so fast, says Rev. Robert Sirico, president of the Acton ... more »»
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009How Much Will this Cost?By John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareEric Davis of the Nevada Policy Research Institute reminds us of one of the bizare features of health care today: We rarely know how much something wil cost ahead of time. As if we needed another example of ... more »»
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Friday, August 21, 2009Learning from the States at N. Dakota Policy ForumBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareRecently the North Dakota Policy Council held an open meeting on health care reform. Now the council has put a video of the event online. It features ideas for making health and health insurance more affordable, and ... more »»
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009Beware of Official Cost Estimates of New Health PlansBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareYou know the expression about taking something with a grain of salt? When it comes to advocates of new government health programs making estimates of how much their dreams will cost, you might want to find the Sam's Club-sized version. Mitch Pearlstein, president of the Center of the American ... more »»
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009Empower People, Not Insurance CompaniesBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareThe Caesar Rodney Institute says that in the health reform debate, we should ask "If Americans were starting from scratch with establishing a health care insurance framework in America, what would we want?" It's not that we can ... more »»
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Monday, August 24, 2009You've got Questions, They've got AnswersBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareThough this site focuses on responding to and commenting on news relating to health reform, sometimes it's useful to return to some basic principles. To that end, let me direct you to a useful publication by the National Center for Policy Analysis, called State ... more »»
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Saturday, August 22, 2009Keeping Your Insurance When You Can't Keep Your JobBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareVery few people live in employer-sponsored housing or eat from employer-sponsored grocery stores, yet a majority of people get employer-sponsored health insurance. That means that losing a job is a double whammy. The National Center for Policy Analysis offers more »»
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Friday, August 21, 2009Not Enough Money? Just Print More!By John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareBest comment on that WSJ editorial that Tarren Bragdon linked to? How about this? "State-specific run ... more »»
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