Policy
Posted at 10:34pm on Jun. 25, 2008 Reviving The So-Called "Fairness Doctrine"
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
I'll make this short: The Speaker of the House is in favor of the plan. But actually reviving the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" is an immensely bad idea. Here's why.
Posted at 1:20pm on Feb. 15, 2008 Clinton favors employing wage theft to enforce "universal, voluntary" health care program
Even at this age, mutual exclusivity seems to be an ungraspable concept
By Jeff Emanuel
Update: The plot thickens, as the indispensible Grace-Marie Turner reminds us:
Hillary Clinton criticized an individual mandate in 1994, saying, "The individual mandate...makes it very difficult to determine and monitor who is in the system and who is out. It would require tracking individuals as they move in and out of jobs, as they move in and out of the insurance market. It would require, in our view, the IRS to engage in an enormous administrative oversight of our health care system."
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Senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has made “health care for all Americans” a major plank in her policy platform since the beginning of her run for President last year – though, as those who are familiar with the junior Senator from New York and former First Lady’s history will recall, radical changes to America’s health care system have been a cause dear to Mrs. Clinton’s heart for the better part of the last two decades at least.
The program Mrs. Clinton is currently touting as her solution to the problems in America’s health care system – particularly its high number of uninsured citizens – is officially called the “American Health Choices Plan,” though it is less-than-affectionately referred to by some as “HillaryCare II” in reference to her failed attempt to push a government health care system on the nation during the first years of her husband’s presidency.
Under this program, the government alone, with no input from the free market, is responsible for the regulation and management of health care. Oxymoronically, the plan whose formal title includes the term “choice” is built around what is known as an “individual mandate” – a government requirement that all Americans, regardless of income or choice, possess at least a (government-established) minimal level of health insurance.
Read on.
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Posted at 5:19pm on Dec. 13, 2007 Spying and Policymaking Don't Mix
By California Yankee
Required reading: Henry Kissinger on misreading the NIE and the intelligence community's recent tendency to turn itself into a kind of check on, instead of a part of, the executive branch.
