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September 3, 2009

President of Heritage Foundation: 'Common-Sense Americans Hit the Brakes' (on health care)

Topics: Political News and commentaries

Edwin J. Feulner, president of the Heritage Foundation, has written today's must-read on health care. If you read nothing else today, at least take the time to read his article:

And if you take away nothing else after reading Feulner's peice, at least takeaway this:

[...] ... the American people cannot take all the credit for slowing down this train wreck. Some of it should go to White House communicators who came up with arguments that were ludicrous on their face, such as insisting that a public option would introduce "competition" into the health insurance market.

Thank God we commissioned a Lewin Group study that made it clear that more than 88 million Americans would lose their private insurance if a government competitor were created. These numbers made it abundantly clear that the "government option" would quickly become the only option. And as a Heritage study just showed Friday, Obamacare will cost U.S. businesses up to $49 billion a year and will mean that as many as 5.5 million Americans could lose their job.

[...] Renaming the public option a "co-op" is disingenuous, for example. It all amounts to the same thing: a single-payer system, which means the only choice Americans would have is a government package.

Posted by Richard at September 3, 2009 5:10 PM

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