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It’s time to put the insurance companies out of their misery

If I were on trial for robbing a house, the last thing in the world I would do is give a series of public lectures on cat burglary techniques. “I’m completely innocent,” I’d say, as the sample lock clicked open. “I’ve lived a clean life. Any questions about the order…

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The health care ‘fat tax’ comes to NC

I happened to post a link to an article in the News & Observer today, “N.C. to impose ‘fat tax’“, on my Facebook page and I couldn’t believe how many comments were generated there, opening up a somewhat heated dialogue revolving on the “blame the fattie” meme. So I decided…

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First, do no harm

Update: This should clear up some confusion about the potential of a bill to ruin lives. Some folks in comments below are, apparently without reading the post, reciting lines about the perfect being the enemy of the good and ideological tests. So let me make this clear: progressives taking a…

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With This Illness, I Thee Fraud

The entire problem with rescissions in health insurance is that they create the entire problem they were enacted to combat. The only reason they exist is to be violated, like overdraft fees or virginity pledges or the return policy at Best Buy. Rescission policies are health insurance companies’ way of…

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Well, It Is A Day That Ends In “Y”

So it must be time for the Wall Street Journal to propose a health insurance reform that would save insurance companies money. It’s refreshing when you wake up knowing exactly what’s going to happen. Today’s idea is that we should remove interstate barriers to insurance sales, because of all the…

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President Obama Will Use The Constitution As A To-Be-Named Paper Product

I may be a lowly law student, but I’m pretty sure that David Rivkin and Lee Casey are flat-out wrong when they say that a federal mandate for health insurance would be unconstitutional. I think that it’s terrible policy, personally, and that a Medicare-for-all single payer system would be a…

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Laying Pipe

Suppose I told you that Trig Palin was akin to a pipe. No matter how you try to patch him up, he was manufactured with a crippling defect that’s always going to leave him unable to function properly. Like that pipe, the best solution is to just cut your losses,…

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It Is Time For Puppies To Start Licking The Tears Of Babies

This is just a small, nagging thing that’s been bothering me about the healthcare debate. Politics 101 says that when you’re discussing something, you use actual stories to stress the importance of the position. It’s why McCain latched onto Joe the Plumber, it’s why we are all faking injuries in…

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The Whole Foods Healthcare Plan: Now With 80% More Conspicuously Consuming White People

The CEO of Whole Foods has a plan to reform health care. Not by increasing communist-style government control of healthcare OMGWTFBBQ, but instead by taking simple, common sense steps. Mainly, having every retailer on Earth become Whole Foods. While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs…

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She Walks Because She Can’t Figure Out How To Start The Car

I’m pretty sure that when the history of health care reform in America is written, Megan McArdle will get a footnote as the last person in the country to understand how any of it actually works. The debate over the “rationing” of healthcare has come down to two sides: conservatives…

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