Michael Tanner and Michael Cannon, both health care experts at the Cato Institute, are featured in the video below. Excerpts are taken from Barack Obama's town hall meeting on health care. The two men rebut the President on each point highlighted.
It is a pretty sharp video, so check it out:
It is a pretty sharp video, so check it out:
From the Kaus Files @ Slate:
It's seemed to me that the Obama administration has made a mistake in the framing of the health care issue: 'We'll raise your taxes and in exchange we're going to cut your treatments.' I mean, how could that not have widespread appeal? It's pain/pain! ... This mistake has been replicated, perhaps, in the subsidiary debate over the "public option."
Posted by: Fred Gregory | July 05, 2009 at 07:07 PM
Fred, it seems that, sooner of later, the administration would have to concede the ugly truths about the plans it would tend to prefer. I don't know if this complex legislation is going to pass; but it will be less likely to pass if the public learns the whole truth.
Posted by: Joe Guarino | July 05, 2009 at 08:19 PM
Let's not count on the MSM to point out the pitfalls of Obama's plan to socialize healthcare in America. And don't waste time asking Hagan to vote no..fat chance !
Posted by: Fred Gregory | July 05, 2009 at 10:06 PM
I agree, Fred, we cannot count on the MSM. The wall of protection the media has placed around Obama is beginning to dissolve slowly, but it seems the MSM has always wanted socialized medicine.
Posted by: Joe Guarino | July 05, 2009 at 10:15 PM