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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Obama Tries to Allay Health-Reform Fears


“President Obama conceded Americans are queasy about his health care reforms, but he tried to reassure people in a prime-time TV house call that the changes will cure many of the system’s ills. ‘Absolutely, people are afraid of it,’ Obama said Wednesday night during the one-hour ABC special from the White House. ‘They know they’re living with the Devil, but the Devil they know they think may be better than the Devil they don’t.’”(New York Daily News, Thursday)

Queasiness is a sign of the people’s good sense.

FEE Timely Classic
“So You Want Government-Supplied Health Care?” by Donald J. Boudreaux


  • Sheldon Richman is the former editor of The Freeman and a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He is the author of Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families and thousands of articles.