Healthcare Reform Needs a Time Machine
In less than 1 billionth of a second after signing into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, by Barak Obama on March 23rd, 2010 every political pundit and economist gave their two cents on what the impact is going to be on the economy and health care in America. I have heard such ludicrous responses that that healthcare will be “Armageddon” to Healthcare reform will fix all our problems. I wonder if a truck of DeLorean time machines were hijacked because apparently every single person knows the intricate details of how this bill will impact this country in the near and long term future. I mean, all I hear is speculation after speculation on what is going to happen and the reality is we don’t have the exact details of the outcome, good, bad or indifferent. We can assume, but that’s just about it. I would ask the “crystal ballerz” to tune down their flux capacitors because your noise is inhibiting the process of people assessing the merits of the bill in an objective fashion.
It reminds me of all the real estate bubble speculators and past Dow Jones average will go up by ________ [insert unrealistic speculative number here] thousand predictors, that had every piece of data, including data from the Tooth Fairy and Santa Clause to let them know that they were right. I realize that most people suffer from Historic Economic Amnesia or in this case IFAA, “Incorrect Future Assessment Amnesia“. So being that we have a 24/7 news cycle and data goes in and out the “Internetis-sphere Data-verse” and just about anything that anyone says about healthcare a month from now, will be crowded out with new information, I’m going to list below all the articles I’ve seen that are for, against, and middle of the road opinions on new healthcare reform. The page is a work in progress (meaning I’ll be constantly updating it as I get new articles) but you can always refer to it years later to see if the speculators were right or wrong. If you have articles that you’d like to see posted just comment on this post and I’ll add them. It doesn’t matter if the opinion is in support or against the bill, or even in the middle.
Lets keep the health care reform speculators honest!
Against the new bill
- Lew Rockwell on Healthcare with Judge Napolitano
http://peterschiffchannel.blogspot.com/2010/03/lew-rockwell-healthcare-judge.html - Healthcare Intervention: The Bigger Picture by Doug French
http://mises.org/daily/4213 - YouTube: Peter Schiff healthcare bill is insanity makes America a fascist country and bankrupt it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0seaAV2oSh8 - Wishful Thinking on Health Care by Sheldon Richman
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/tgif/wishful-thinking/ - Health care reform too costly for critic by John R. Graham
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/27/BA801CLCMG.DTL - Concord Coalition Reacts To Health Care Bill Passage: Cost Control Vigilance is Now Crucial
http://www.concordcoalition.org/press-releases/2010/0322/concord-coalition-reacts-health-care-bill-passage-cost-control-vigilance-no - Obamacare Dystopia by Mark Steyn
http://article.nationalreview.com/429537/obamacare-dystopia/mark-steyn - Pricing Out Private Insurance by By John E. Calfee
http://www.aei.org/article/101841
For the new bill
- Obama Finally Toughens Up – About Time!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-dalby/obama-finally-toughens-up_b_515333.html - You did it. We did it. Real health care reform for America! by Move on.org
http://pol.moveon.org/wedidit/ - Sanders’ Healthcare Revolution by KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL
http://www.concordcoalition.org/press-releases/2010/0322/concord-coalition-reacts-health-care-bill-passage-cost-control-vigilance-no - Health-care overhaul begins now By Ezra Klein
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/26/AR2010032605600.html?sub=AR - NPR: Rep. Lee: Health Bill Not Perfect, But A Good Start
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124731511
General Information about the bill
- A new chapter begins on health care by Bill Adair
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2010/mar/24/new-chapter-begins-health-care/ - Health Care Summit Squabbles by FactCheck.org
http://factcheck.org/2010/02/health-care-summit-squabbles/ - Healthcare Costs and U.S. Competitivene by Toni Johnson
http://www.cfr.org/publication/13325/healthcare_costs_and_us_competitiveness.html - Health Reform by Kaiser Family
http://healthreform.kff.org/ - Health Care and Insurance Law Amendments by Project Vote Smart
http://votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?cs_id=29181
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To be honest, I'm a whole bunch of things, but mostly I'm an individual who seeks for truth in a world that has become a caricature of honesty. With so much information at our fingertips, the line between truth and conjecture has been blurred. I created this blog to offer ideas and thoughts that assist people in truth seeking. Often, what we find might challenge our personal sensibilities, but nevertheless give us a torch to pave through the darkness of information obscurity. 