The Future of Health Insurance
Monday’s New York Times highlighted one of the many ways that existing models of medical insurance are beginning to come undone. In this case the subject was long-term-care insurance, which is supposed...
View ArticleWorth It?
Rudy has been getting flak from fiscal conservatives (check out today’s Wall Street Journal) for his support of a catastrophe insurance fund for Florida. However, this may have been the price to pay...
View ArticleWhat Bad News?
This is not an administration that takes bad news well. Or to put it more precisely, this is not an administration that takes in bad news. The president pretended not to hear the Tea Party protesters...
View ArticleRE: ObamaCare and Political Theater
Pete, it’s hard to see exactly what Obama is doing here. Certainly, even in the hubris-filled halls of the West Wing, the Obami must know that the votes aren’t there in the House, and as a result, it...
View ArticleBand-Aids for Band-Aids for Band-Aids
Out on the health-care stump in Pennsylvania today, President Obama talked up the importance of competitive markets: He continued, “An insurance broker told Wall Street investors that insurance...
View ArticleAn Electorate Receptive to “Repeal and Replace”
Yuval Levin explains that ObamaCare is the worst of all health-care reforms — really no health-care reform at all: In order to gain 60 votes in the Senate last winter, the Democrats were forced to give...
View ArticleRE: Pelosi Angry, on the Ropes
Pete, even for Nancy Pelosi this is really beyond the pale. I have just a few thoughts to add. First, no one is pulling the strings behind a concerted opposition to the mosque, but it’s odd that she...
View ArticleLiberals on the Ropes
The New York Times poll (invariably more positive for the Democrats than other surveys) contains little good news for the Democrats. The Times has Obama’s approval at 45 percent, near his all-time low...
View ArticleIt Sure Is a Choice Between Hope and Fear
As he is wont to do, William Galston delivers the bad news to his fellow Democrats. Eyeing last week’s Gallup poll showing that majorities disapprove of Obama’s “accomplishments” (e.g., the bailouts,...
View ArticleThere’s No Fixing ObamaCare
Those who thought President Obama had “fixed” the inequities in his signature health-care legislation with an announcement last week should have been paying attention on Monday to the results of a...
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