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Preparing For The Next Pandemic: Mobilizing And Integrating Responses Across The Government And The Private Sector
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If You Like Choice In Health Care, Look To Republicans
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Vertical Integration: Hospital Ownership Of Physician Practices Is Associated With Higher Prices And Spending
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The First Coronavirus Error Was Keeping Calm
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Analysis and Commentary

Interpretations of Tuesday

by Victor Davis Hansonvia Corner (National Review Online)
Thursday, November 5, 2009

In the midst of all the warring interpretations of Tuesday's elections — conservatives see the governors' races, where millions cast their votes in both a blue and purple state, as a repudiation of Obamaism; liberals see the two House races in California and New York as proof that the president has a winning national agenda — all that really matters is the course of the Congress in the next few weeks. . . .

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The "Costs" of Medical Care: Part III

by Thomas Sowellvia Creators Syndicate
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

One of the strongest talking points of those who want a government-run medical care system is that we simply cannot afford the high and rising costs of medical care under the current system...

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The "Costs" of Medical Care: Part IV

by Thomas Sowellvia Creators Syndicate
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

What is so wrong with the current medical system in the United States that we are being urged to rush headlong into a new government system that we are not even supposed to understand, because this legislation is to be rushed through Congress before even the Senators and Representatives have a chance to read it?...

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The “Costs” of Medical Care

by Thomas Sowellvia Creators Syndicate
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

We are incessantly being told that the cost of medical care is “too high”—either absolutely or as a growing percentage of our incomes...

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Healthcare provision seeks to embrace prayer treatments

with Michael McConnellvia Los Angeles Times
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill would require insurers to consider covering Christian Science prayer treatments as medical expenses...

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The "Costs" of Medical Care: Part II

by Thomas Sowellvia Creators Syndicate
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Although it is cheaper to buy a pint of milk than to buy a quart of milk, nobody considers that to be lowering the price of milk...

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Fiscal Imprudence and Fiscal Stimulus

by Gary S. Beckervia Becker-Posner Blog
Sunday, November 1, 2009

The government's preliminary estimate of the growth in American GDP during the third quarter of 2009 is an impressive annual rate of 3.5%...

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Analysis and Commentary

The public option

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Sunday, November 1, 2009

Here is the video where Obama uses the Post Office as an example of why the public option won’t hurt private competitors...

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No placebo for lower costs

by Henry I. Millervia Washington Times
Sunday, November 1, 2009

There must be a self-satisfied smirk on the face of the executives at big pharmaceutical companies as they watch congressional Democrats attempt to punish health insurance plans for having the nerve to raise questions about the consequences of current health reform proposals...

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Greg Mankiw and Homework on Marginal Tax Rates

by John B. Taylorvia Economics One (blog)
Sunday, November 1, 2009

In an op-ed in today's New York Times Harvard's Greg Mankiw gives a good example of how government transfer programs increase marginal tax rates...

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The Working Group on Health Care Policy devises public policies that enable more Americans to get better value for their health care dollar and foster appropriate innovations that will extend and improve life.