Sowell: Point of No Return?

March 23, 2010

On HCR and privacy: “With politicians now having not only access to our most confidential records, and having the power of granting or withholding medical care needed to sustain ourselves or our loved ones, how many people will be bold enough to criticize our public servants, who will in fact have become our public masters?”

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Exempted From Obamacare: Senior Staff Who Wrote the Bill

March 22, 2010

[tweetmeme] For as long as the political fight took over the past year, the abbreviated review process on the health care legislation currently pending on President Obama’s desk is unquestionably going to result in some surprises — as happens with any piece of mashed-up legislation — both for the congressmen who voted for it and […]

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House Sends Senate Health Care Legislation to Obama

March 22, 2010

Deal with Stupak makes the difference. “The Senate healthcare bill passed the House a vote of 219-212. Thirty-four Democrats voted against their party, and against the legislation. As expected, the Republican opposition was unanimous.”

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Capitalism and Health Care

March 21, 2010

Nancy Pelosi has the votes, and Obamacare is headed to the president’s desk. What does it mean for the future?

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Latest News on Health Care: Stupak Sells Out, Pelosi Gets Her Win

March 21, 2010

[tweetmeme] My final pre-vote piece at The Daily Caller is on Bart Stupak’s fig leaf, Nancy Pelosi’s big win, and where we go from here on health care reform. In the end, Pelosi and Obama’s achievement is likely to come at a hefty political price. It seems clear that the American people aren’t as easy […]

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Eleventh Hour Negotiations on Health Care

March 20, 2010

[tweetmeme] On Capitol Hill, the Rules Committee is meeting this morning to run through some last minute amendments to the health care legislation. You can read those here. But they’re irrelevant — it’s clear the final standoff on Capitol Hill in the eleventh hour of the health care debate will be over Rep. Bart Stupak’s […]

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As Sparks Fly, Democrats Close in On 216 for Health Care

March 20, 2010

By the official TNL count, Democrats remain five votes short, but that’s arm-twisting distance, making Democrats confident “even as they dealt with abortion, a flare-up over regional Medicare reimbursement rates for doctors, senators’ decision not to sign a letter promising to pass a reconciliation bill with House “fixes” and a smattering of other individual issues.”

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Stupak Abortion Language to be Added as "Tie Bar" to House Bill

March 20, 2010

Stupak’s anti-abortion Democrats will get their fig leaf: “According to a member of Congress who was briefed on the matter, Pelosi has agreed to let Stupak have a vote on his amendment, which instructs the Senate to substitute his language for the Senate language on abortion.”

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Lest It Should Unman Me

March 20, 2010

Apropos of nothing – Alexander Hamilton’s letter to his wife, prior to the duel. This letter, my very dear Eliza, will not be delivered to you, unless I shall first have terminated my earthly career; to begin, as I humbly hope from redeeming grace and divine mercy, a happy immortality. If it had been possible […]

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Obamacare's End

March 19, 2010

[tweetmeme] Coffee & Markets will wait til Sunday (we want to see how things turn out), so here’s a brief podcast with a few thoughts from me on the eve of health care reform’s final vote: “Obama’s dedication to passing this spectacularly flawed and unpopular health care bill appears to be based on the assumption […]

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