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My Body, Their Choice
Turning health care over to the government inevitably limits individual freedom.
November 18, 2009"My body, my choice" has long been a rallying cry for abortion-rights advocates on the left, many of whom have recently been vocal supporters of the Democratic health care reform agenda. But as abortion advocates are now discovering, abortion rights aren't as easily compatible with health care reform as they might have once thought. Turns out the more government gets involved in health care, the more difficult it becomes to truly retain choices about one's body.
Menu Mandate's Missing Math
You can show people calorie numbers, but you can't make them count.
November 18, 2009The most conspicuous effect you will see from President Obama’s health care overhaul won’t be at your doctor’s office or the hospital. It will be at your local Burger King.
That’s assuming the Senate goes along with a provision, already approved by the House, that requires restaurant chains with 20 or more locations to display calorie counts on their menus. Although supporters claim such mandates have the power to make people thinner and prevent obesity-related disease, New York City’s experience suggests they have little or no impact, possibly because customers who are interested in nutritional information can already obtain it.
How Republicans can Kill ObamaCare
November 18, 2009, 1:21pmThat Darn Mandate
Will Americans be forced to buy health insurance?
November 18, 2009By insisting on the removal of the public option—instead of the individual mandate—as the price of doing business, Republicans have missed a major opportunity to put Democrats on the defensive and change the terms of the debate.
Kiss Your Freedoms Goodbye If Health Care Passes
Why we cannot afford to sit out this fight
November 16, 2009When I recently asked Congressman James Clyburn, the third ranking Democrat in the House, to tell me "Where in the Constitution the federal government is authorized to regulate everyone's healthcare," he replied that most of what Congress does is not authorized by the Constitution, but they do it anyway. There you have it. Congress recognizes no limits on its power. It doesn't care about the Constitution, it doesn't care about your inalienable rights, it doesn't care about the liberties protected by the Bill of Rights, it doesn't even read the laws it writes.
America, this is not an academic issue. If this health care bill becomes law, life as you have known it, freedom as you have exercised it, privacy as you have enjoyed it, will cease to be.
Universal Coverage: A Big Feast for Big Pharma
November 12, 2009, 9:34pmView Resources by Type
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- My Body, Their Choice
Turning health care over to the government inevitably limits individual freedom.
Peter Suderman
November 18, 2009 - Menu Mandate's Missing Math
You can show people calorie numbers, but you can't make them count.
Jacob Sullum
November 18, 2009 - That Darn Mandate
Will Americans be forced to buy health insurance?
Shikha Dalmia
November 18, 2009 - Kiss Your Freedoms Goodbye If Health Care Passes
Why we cannot afford to sit out this fight
Andrew Napolitano
November 16, 2009 - The U.S. House of Presumptuous Meddlers
The folly of health care "reform"
John Stossel
November 12, 2009 - Freedom to Confuse
Thanks to the abortion amendment, liberals suddenly care about "choice" in our health care system.
David Harsanyi
November 11, 2009 - Obama's Hidden Fees
When the president does it, it's not a tax
Jacob Sullum
November 4, 2009 - Masterfleece Theater
The Democrats say their health care bill will provide real competition. It won't.
David Harsanyi
October 30, 2009 - The Unhealthy 'Public Option'
Using government-run health insurance to fix the status quo is like using a brick to improve a window
Steve Chapman
October 29, 2009 - Mandatory Savings?
Requiring people to buy medical insurance will fuel health care inflation
Jacob Sullum
October 28, 2009 - Health Care Delusions, Left and Right
How both sides are misleading the American people
Steve Chapman
October 26, 2009 - In Health Care, Nobody Knows Anything
Two new industry studies reignite the debate about what makes health care so expensive
Ronald Bailey
October 20, 2009 - Max's Adventures in Wonderland
Why health care "reform" won't pay for itself
David Harsanyi
October 13, 2009 - The Madness of the Mandate
What's wrong with the government forcing individuals to buy health insurance.
Peter Suderman
October 9, 2009 - Obama Is No Radical
But maybe we'd be better off if he were.
Jesse Walker
September 30, 2009 - Does High-Tech Medicine Mean Higher Health Care Costs?
A new report finds that medical innovation boosts life expectancy, but doesn't cost more
Ronald Bailey
September 29, 2009 - The Body Politics
On health-care reform, Democrats have become their own worst enemy.
Peter Suderman
September 25, 2009 - Obama, Race, and Health Care
Understanding America's real and imagined grievances
Shikha Dalmia
September 25, 2009 - The Truth About Media Bias
Every reporter has political beliefs
John Stossel
September 24, 2009 - Coverage Story
Does the cost of uncompensated care justify forcing people to buy health insurance?
Jacob Sullum
September 23, 2009 - The Consumer Is Not the Customer
Both parties promise to preserve one of the health care system's central problems
Jacob Sullum
September 16, 2009 - Obama's Health Care Plan: Put Up and Shut Up
More broken promises from the candidate of change
Shikha Dalmia
September 14, 2009 - President Obama's Plan Will Control Every Aspect of the Medical Transaction
Health care plan will tell patients when, what and how much coverage they must buy
Shikha Dalmia
September 11, 2009 - What About the Patient In Health Care Debate?
Health care reform isn't serious until the patient is at the center of the picture
Nick Gillespie
September 11, 2009 - Survey Says What?
The problem with health-care polling
Peter Suderman
September 4, 2009 - The Evil-Mongering of the American Medical Association
Obama's cozy relationship with Big Medicine will hurt patients
Shikha Dalmia
August 27, 2009 - New Public Option, Same As the Old Public Option?
Are health insurance co-ops a good idea?
Ronald Bailey
August 18, 2009 - Big Business Goes Big for Health Care Reform
Why drug companies and insurance providers are backing ObamaCare
John Stossel
August 13, 2009 - The Myth of Free-Market Health Care in America
Why other Western countries offer no panacea for American woes
Shikha Dalmia
July 30, 2009 - The Myth Of Free Market Health Care In America
Uncle Sam picks up nearly half of the country's $2.5 trillion annual health care tab
Shikha Dalmia
July 29, 2009 - Markets, Not Mandates
How medical markets would improve health care and reduce costs
Ronald Bailey
July 28, 2009 - Buy Now, Pay Later
The health care cost-control conundrum
Peter Suderman
July 24, 2009 - President Obama's Top Five Health Care Lies
Tony Soprano Care
Shikha Dalmia
July 2, 2009 - How the "Public Option" of Health Insurance Went From Inevitable to Imperiled
Some straight talk from a straight-laced federal agency puts government-run insurance on the brink
Peter Suderman
June 29, 2009 - Rhetoric vs. Reality in the Health Care Debate
Is it "rationing" when consumers decide how to spend their own money?
Ronald Bailey
June 23, 2009 - Medicare Is Not the Model for Health Care Reform
The "public option" health care plan will not be financially sustainable
Shikha Dalmia
June 18, 2009 - Indulging Our Health Care Fantasies
The problem with Obama's health care plan
Steve Chapman
June 15, 2009 - The Beginning of the End of Private Health Insurance
How President Obama's public health insurance option will quickly evolve into the only option
Ronald Bailey
June 10, 2009 - Put the Patients' Welfare First in Hospital Privatization Dispute
Legislature sacrificed psychiatric patients' well-being to retain legacy jobs on state payroll
Leonard Gilroy and Anthony Randazzo
May 14, 2009 - Health Care Corporatism Arrives
Consumers will pay the price if government partners with the health care industry
Ronald Bailey
May 12, 2009 - The Economic Impact of President Obama's Health Care Tactics
No major industrialized economy with universal health care has performed better than the U.S. in the last decade
Shikha Dalmia
May 6, 2009 - Hospital Privatization Isn't a Scary Proposition, Patients Should Come First
Letter to the Editor
Leonard Gilroy
April 23, 2009 - Queue No More
Canada's surprising proposal for fast tracking new drugs to patients
Ronald Bailey
April 14, 2009 - The Health-Status Insurance Solution
How free markets can provide health security
Ronald Bailey
March 3, 2009 - Pay Up
Higher insurance premiums
Ronald Bailey
March 1, 2009 - E.R. Crowding
Are the uninsured to blame?
Ronald Bailey
February 1, 2009 - Tom Daschle's Plan for Health Care Rationing
How the new health czar would save money by limiting care
Ronald Bailey
December 23, 2008 - Yes: Inclusive Health Care Is Expensive, but Just How Expensive?
Letters to the Editor
Shikha Dalmia
February 13, 2008 - Saying No to CoerciveCare
Obama's plan isn't perfect, but it is much better than HillaryCare and Schwarzenneger's GovernatorCare
Shikha Dalmia
January 31, 2008 - Stop Government Takeover of Health Care
GOP's focus on illegal immigrants sidetracks fight on kids care program
Shikha Dalmia
September 5, 2007 - Health Care Costs Imperil Big Three
The UAW's health care dreams
Shikha Dalmia
July 27, 2007 - Schwarzenegger Goes From Milton Friedman to Big Government
Arnold's nanny-state plan misdiagnoses what's wrong with health care
George Passantino
February 9, 2007 - Universal Health Care Would Be Universal Disaster
Rise in health care costs coincides with Medicaid and Medicare expansion
Adam Summers
February 7, 2007 - Arnold's Wrong Model
Bush may promote state health plans, but California isn't a good model
Shikha Dalmia
January 22, 2007 - Schwarzenegger's Health Care Plan May Turn Uninsured Into Criminals
Universal health care plan isn't ready, could hurt businesses
Shikha Dalmia
January 18, 2007 - An Unhealthy Policy Prescription
Why Gov. Mitt Romney's universal health care plan isn't right for Massachusetts, Michigan or elsewhere
Shikha Dalmia
September 4, 2006 - Michigan Snubs Innovative Way to Rein in Health Costs
Accounts give Medicaid patients an incentive to spend tax dollars wisely
Shikha Dalmia
June 15, 2006 - The Culture War's French Connection
Morning-after pill fuels hypocrisy on both sides
Shikha Dalmia
February 7, 2006 - Bush's Disaster Socialism
How both parties declared the era when big government was over, over
Shikha Dalmia
October 14, 2005 - Unlikely Hope for Deficit Hawks
Ted Balaker
February 10, 2004
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