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GoozNews.com : Health Care and the Job Market
"In other words, employers, government agencies and taxpayers who foot the tab for health will have to wait on controlling skyrocketing health care costs, which even he admits is the “greatest fiscal threat facing this nation.”
http://www.gooznews.com/archives/001265.html

A NEW PRETEXT FOR GOVT-RUN HEALTH CARE
"Cheap government coverage won’t increase demand for health care and it won’t create jobs... Nonetheless, you can expect to see Gruber’s “medicine for the job market” argument repeated over and over again during the next year. The people making it know it is nonsense, but they also know that make work bias is alive and well in the public consciousness. Thus, they hope to use it to finally trick the voters into accepting government-run health care."
http://www.healthcarebs.com/2008/12/05/a-new-pretext-for-govt-run-h...

Lack of Competition Crippling Canadian Care
"Canada's refusal to consider increased private sector involvement and competition in health care has left the country struggling with a system burdened with lengthy waiting lists and aging medical technology, despite being one of the most expensive systems among industrialized nations, concludes the Vancouver-based Fraser Institute's Michael Walker and Nadeem Esmail in 'How Good is Canadian Health Care?'"
http://www.statehousecall.org/lack-of-competition-crippling-canadia...


ICYM: Paul Hsieh had a great piece in the Colorado Springs Gazette
on the health care bailout: http://www.gazette.com/opinion/health_43988___article.html/care_uni...

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