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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Concerns Mount as Obama Talks Reform with AMA


“President Obama went before a convention of receptive but wary doctors on Monday to make the economic case for a health care overhaul, both for the nation and for the physicians’ own bottom lines. But as the president spoke at the annual conference of the American Medical Association in Chicago, it became clear that one of the major health plans on the table would cost at least $1 trillion over 10 years yet leave tens of millions of people uninsured.” (New York Times, Tuesday)

An economic case for government control?

FEE Timely Classic
“Health Care Is Worse Here than Elsewhere? It Just Ain’t So!” by David R. Henderson


  • 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.