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Give Me ObamaCare and Give Me Your So-Called "Death Panels." It's Surely Better Than What We Have Now.
The conservative blog, mercatornet.com, invited yours truly to be part of a debate on health reform, the controversy over so called "death panels", and my views on the future of the American health care system. The piece written in opposition to mine can be read here, but I can summarize... (read the rest)
Caplan: Health Care Debate Goes Beyond Awry When Nazi Imagery Is Invoked
If anyone has been paying attention to the news lately, they've seen vicious town hall meetings with Senators and Representatives around the country, and even the President, met by furious citizens attacking proposed plans for universal healthcare. Many voice their most deeply held fears of "big government", a loss of... (read the rest)
Caplan Offers Reality Checks on Health Care Reform
What are the facts and fictions being bandied about in the debate over universal access to healthcare as promoted by President Obama's health care plan? Arthur Caplan in his MSNBC column today attempts to straighten out some of the true claims from the false ones and make a few predictions... (read the rest)
Is There a Fitness Requirement to Be Surgeon General?
Art Caplan asks whether you have to be thin to be S.G or whether it's simply a "big job for a big lady" in today's MSNBC column. Caplan has a point--with a President who has openly acknowledged that he struggles to kick his smoking habit and and a previous first... (read the rest)
Powers' Chicken and The Egg Problem
Madison Powers' eloquent essay from CQPolitics.com last Friday analyzes Obama's two-fold problem passing healthcare reform. What Powers calls "decoupling" the two key arguments about cost containment and expanding access to healthcare, I call his "chicken and the egg problem". You say potato, I say potato. Fundamentally we agree: if you... (read the rest)
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