Monthly Archives: October 2009

The ABC Dilemma of Health Reform

  Today’s Wall Street Journal has two columns regarding the state of health care reform, here and here. The second link discusses health care ‘reforms’ in New York, and how the concepts of community rating and guaranteed issue, while noble in intent, distort the marketplace. Further distortions arise when states mandate fringe coverages that are [...] Read more »

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Two Pages In The Wall Street Journal

Two pages in today’s Wall Street Journal encapsulate, for this observer, the dilemma our politicians face as federal spending spins out of control.  Page A4: Jobless Rate is Key to Fate of Democrats in 2010 …But one item may prove key: the national unemployment rate, which hit a 26-year high last month at 9.8% …President [...] Read more »

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