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Tuesday, June 30, 2009Freedom to Go to Pot--or Freedom in Health Care?By John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareThe previous post on a move towards legalizing marijuana use makes me wonder. Which will come first: Freedom to smoke a joint, or freedom to select the medical treatment and health insurance of your choice, free from the heavy hand of government or the Hobson's choice ... more »»
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009Yes We Cannabis?Take it from Dr. Friedman: "Drug prohibition has absolutely no positive effects whatsoever." By Mark Todd EnglerFiled As: Economic principles, Health CareYou know attitudes about the war on drugs are changing when a roundtable of self-important mainstream conventional wisdom guardians generally agrees that states should legalize weed. Given that partisan pundits of both dreary statist ... more »»
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009Sam's Rolling in His GraveBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareFrom USA Today: Wal-Mart, reviled in some quarters as a puppet-master of the right wing, endorses a play or pay mandate. "We are for an employer mandate which is fair and broad in its ... more »»
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009"Underinsured" in Germany?Huffington Post reader unwittingly endorses consumer-driven health care! By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareBack on April 27, Senator Tom Coburn and Professor Regina Herzlinger published an op-ed (inexplicably) in the Huffington Post. Needless to day, it generated a firestorm of comments. I was just rereading it and saw this endorsement of ... more »»
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009White House Wants Your QuestionsBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareIf you have a concern about health care policy, here's your chance to be heard: The White House invites you to submit questions via Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for a "town ... more »»
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009Embrace Rationing--by Price, Not PoliticsBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareGeorge F. Will on the inevitability of rationing:
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009Restraining Health Care Spending Will Happen--But Who Will Do It?By John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareWe spend a lot of money on health care. Many people would say we spend too much. So if we're going to reduce the amount of health care spending, who's going to decide what to cut, and where? Arnold Kling frames it this way: more »»
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009The Implications of GovernmentCareBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareThere are many implications of a government health care that go beyond your ability to direct your own health care: "once government health care's in place the game's over: Socialized medicine redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state in all the wrong ways, and, more »»
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Monday, June 29, 2009Be Careful Out ThereBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareIs it insurance, a discount card, or a ripoff? Some people buy coupons or cards for discounted medical services, only to find out that they mistakenly thought they were buying ... more »»
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Monday, June 29, 2009Healthy San Francisco Model for U.S.: Sebelius, ObamaLack of choice & tax-gorged public-health bureaucracy in our future! By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareThe Sacramento Bee reports that U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and President Obama have praised Mayor Gavin Newsom's Healthy San Francisco municipal bureaucracy as a model of U.S. health ... more »»
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