“According to provisions in both House and Senate bills, mandated plans must have low copayments and provide coverage of health-care services that is at least equal in scope to a typical, current employer-sponsored plan. But these are the very flaws that are responsible for high and rising health-care costs, flaws that stem directly from the misguided tax exclusion for and the extensive state regulation of health insurance. By locking in these flaws, the mandates will inhibit precisely the innovation needed to reform U.S. health care….Comprehensive, low-deductible, low-copayment insurance has brought us to where we are today. The administration’s plan to expand and lock-in this flawed paradigm will ultimately defeat the goal of making health services more affordable for everyone.” –Cogan, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of public policy at Stanford University. Mr. Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School, was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush. Mr. Kessler is a professor of business and law at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution…writing in the WSJ
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Off topic…ran into your comment on Che someplace else. I’ve read that Che said , when describing Mexicans, that they were “…a band of illiterate Indians.” Do you know the source, context, or circumstances?
Ive heard it before…its from his Motorcycle Diaries. Karl Marx held similar views, see here.
Don’t forget about those other inefficiencies that your Republican crony heroes don’t want to talk about.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/24028
Good point Jon - the differences are in magnitude and intensity. Nobody argues that Republicans, in isolation, is the conservative party. It is the conservative party only in comparison to Democrats.
Like Bush’s prescription drug plan? Looks to me like they’re all working for the same people, they just have different rhetoric.
Strange to me though how leftists continue to defend Obama. I speak with some of them and in some cases they’re just dumbfounded, but continue on with their support in the fact of his militarism, which is just as bad, if not worse than Bush, just like Clinton was.