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Free Market Health Care

Jon Caldara Argues For/Against His Ballot Amendment 63

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Health Care Reform, Jon Caldara, Individual Mandate, Free-Market Health Care, T.R. Reid, Amendment 63, Single-Risk-Pool Insurance, Denver News
Michele Swenson

In a debate between T.R. Reid and Jon Caldara about Ballot Amendment 63 (to overturn the health insurance mandate), Caldara's arguments frequently doubled back on themselves.

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Corporate Profit Continues to Define Health Care Reform & the U.S. Race to the Bottom

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Ron Pollack, Uwe Reinhardt, Economic Crisis, Single-Payer Health Insurance, Public-Private Health Care Reform, Minimum Benefit Policies, Health Care Reform, Insurance Companies, Multi-Payer Insurances, National Health Care, Corporatocracy, Health, Denial Management, Gaming the System for Profit, Primary Care Crisis, Framing the Issue of Health Care Reform, Physicians for a National Health Care Program, "Free Market" Health Care, Politics News
Michele Swenson

Doctors and hospitals must maintain costly administrative staffs to deal with the bureaucracy. Inflated administration consumes one-third (31 percent) of Americans' health dollars.

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Why Not a "Bailout" That Restructures Health Care to Benefit All?

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Economic Crisis, Framing Issues, Comprehensive Health Care Reform, Single-Payer Health Care, Financial Crisis, Medicare for All, "Free-Market" Health Care, Health Care Crisis, Prescription Drug Reform, Medicare Advantage Plans, Wall Street Crash, Barack Obama Health Care Policy, Barack Obama Health Care, Congressional Bailout Package, Subprime Mortgages, Congressional Bailout, Business News
Michele Swenson

"Free-market" health care is as perverse an incentive as free-market police and fire protection would be, leaving everyone vulnerable, at the mercy of the marketplace.

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