Category Archives: Health Care

Reconciliation: Abuse of Power?

By admin | Published: March 7, 2010
The Democrats plan to push ObamaCare through Congress via reconciliation, a parliamentary tool traditionally used for fast-tracking budget measures with only 50 votes. In the context of health care reform, the invocation of this tool is indeed an abuse of power. Even some Democratic proponents of the legislation would agree according to the Wall Street [...]
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Obama’s Entitled America

By admin | Published: November 20, 2009
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Democrats are trying to sell their health reform plan by claiming that it will reduce the deficit. Apart from it being a terrible strategy to draw attention to our already out-of-control deficits, it is an absurdly inaccurate claim. The Congressional Budget Office has released a report directly contradicting [...]
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Opinion in SMU Daily Campus

By admin | Published: November 5, 2009
SMU Daily Campus 11/5/09 In Charanya Krishnaswami’s defense of the Democratic health reform plan on Tuesday, she reiterates some common fallacious arguments that are misinformed, misrepresent the opposition, and frame the debate in a rather elementary fashion. Krishnaswami seems to believe that the “public option” will bring honest competition to the health insurance market. This could not [...]
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