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Friday, August 14, 2009

Proposed Medicare Price-Setting Commission Hits Wall


“As chairman of one of the more obscure federal agencies, Glenn M. Hackbarth is little known outside the world of health care and his hometown, Bend, Ore. If President Obama has his way, Mr. Hackbarth could become one of the most important people in government, with the power to say how Medicare spends more than $450 billion a year.” (New York Times, Friday)

The pretense of knowledge.

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“Why Medicine Is Slowly Dying in America” by Michael J. Hurd


  • 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.