10-26-2009

Richard Fernandez: The progressives spread the good news that we’re all going to eat the same dinners. The bad news is that it may uniformly be gruel.

Models of Mass Destruction: …the big increases are on the private-sector side, countered Michael F. Cannon, director of health policy at the Cato Institute. He estimated that businesses and families are spending about $1.2 billion more because of the new state mandates…Obama has been reluctant to tout the Massachusetts model because it merely underscores how difficult it will be to deliver on his pledge to reduce the average family’s health costs by $2,500 a year.

Bruce McQuain: We found out recently that the government perpetrated myth that the health insurance industry were a bunch of “robber barons” was a load. So how about this point that it likes to push about “waste” in our health care system? Well Reuters obligingly publishes an article today entitled, “Healthcare system wastes up to $800 billion a year.”

Don Surber: The quote of the day has to go to Matt Scharper, head of California’s Search and Rescue operation, who spoke of On-Star and other GPS devices: “With the Yuppie 911, you send a message to a satellite and the government pulls your butt out of something you shouldn’t have been in in the first place.”

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