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The Republican side of the Table

By ottonomy on June 19, 2010

I watched Bill Maher’s show and the “overtime” extended discussion from Friday (Guests: Bill Frist, Jon Meacham, Rachel Maddow, Queen Noor, Oliver Stone so you know it’ll be a heckuva debate). Bill Frist’s point on health reform that Republicans didn’t have a place at the table on reform and so they would be justified in [...]

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What is the effect of government competition on the health care market?

By ottonomy on October 9, 2009

I was recently asked to describe how the proposed government competition in the health care market (represented by the “public option” would affect health care costs. I wrote the following to illustrate that the issue is not a simple question of free market vs. government control. Theoretically competition would encourage private insurers to reduce their [...]

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Re: Paul Krugman, “Obama’s Trust Problem”

By ottonomy on August 24, 2009

Paul Krugman recently wrote a good article on health care, in surprise that Obama and the Democrats didn’t expectsome resistance from the left after bailing out chummy banks and rolling over on health care (among other “compromises”). Specifically: “Until the idea of the public option came along, a significant faction within the party rejected anything [...]

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