Graham & Elaine Mergard left a comment for Michael Tanner
freelife chi3 energy (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Graham & Elaine Mergard left a comment for Michael Tanner
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CATO On Baucuscare
California Conservative (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
The Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner and Michael Cannon have written scathing reviews of Sen. Baucus’s legislation. Here’s what Mr. Tanner said about Baucuscare: The CBO scoring makes it clear that the Baucus bill’s reduction in future budget deficits comes not from controlling government spending or reducing health care costs, but because of a rapid...
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Public ‘Option’ is a Misnomer
Free Market Mojo (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The public option is a sure-fire way to initiate a government monopoly of health care. Government enterprises never function as efficiently as the private sector. Whenever competition is allowed to flourish, societal welfare increases. But because government cannot compete with the private sector, we see government monopolies implemented under the guise of the "common good" (an absurd concept...
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So What If It’s Still Deficit Neutral?
California Conservative (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Senate Democrats are still playing games with CBO. CBO said that the Finance Committee bill would reduce the deficit by $81,000,000,000, thanks in large part to the proposed $404,000,000,000 in Medicare cuts. Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner just posted this little trickery: When the Senate Finance Committee released CBO scoring of its health care reform proposal last [...]
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UPDATE 1-JSM Indochina shareholder wants directors replaced
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
... to remove JSM's Chief Executive Craig Jones, Chief Financial Officer Rowell Tan and Director Michael Tanner.Passport said it wanted to appoint Scott Verges, Paul Kaju and John Duggan to JSM's board and nominate Verges as the new chairman.Passport said its move followed disappointing response to its efforts to get information from JSM about "serious corporate governance failings and...
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Pitchfork Time
We The Free (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
clipped from healthcare.nationalreview.com As Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute pointed out, “The cost of the [Massachusetts] program has exploded; it’s running $150 million above the original projection for this year alone.” And that was in 2007 - the first full year the plan was in place. This year, according to Rep. Jeff Perry (R-Sandwich), the total “health...
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Mandates, Taxes and Subsidies
California Conservative (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
When everything is stripped away, that’s what the Democrats’ health care proposals consist of. The Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner makes a compelling argument to start over in this USA Today op-ed. The first thing that caught my attention was this cautionary note: Problematic as our system often is, it is possible to make things worse. Shortly thereafter, [...]
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A Tax That Would Finance the Road to Serfdom
Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Michael Tanner and Michael Cannon are working nonstop to derail government-run health care, but they better figure out how to work more than 24 hours per day, because if they fail, it is very likely that politicians will then look for a new revenue source to finance all the new spending that inevitably will follow. [...]
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If we’re going to pass health care reform …
David Kirkpatrick (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
... a much less than perfect system as things currently stand in the U.S., and I agree with Cato’s Michael Tanner that it’s “time to start over.” The problem is there is no political will, or most likely any political ability, to remake health care. There might have been a shot for that during middle few years of the Bush 43 administration when the GOP held all the reins of power, but...
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Trivia Tidbit of the Day: Part 673 -- Baucus Plan.
WILLisms.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Higher Taxes, More Government, Bad Medicine - The Baucus plan raises taxes and cuts benefits (sort of, maybe, kind of) to pay for government-run health care : Added together, these new taxes total $311 billion, a number that critics say is far too high. "They tax us to the point that they reduce the deficit," said Michael Tanner, a health care policy expert at the Cato Institute,...
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BaucusCare provides incentives to end employer health insurance?
Sister Toldjah (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
... paychecks to boot. “Those two factors will change the equilibrium,” says (Cato Institute economist Michael) Tanner. “With the government providing huge credits, employers will feel a lot less guilty about dumping their plans.” In fact, the Baucus bill is practically inviting employers to do just that: It imposes a fine of just $400 per employee on companies that shed their plans....
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A dangerous secret to the Baucus health bill
CNNMoney.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
... fact, the Baucus bill severely undermines the employer rationale for offering insurance. Economist Michael Tanner of the conservative Cato Institute points out two main reasons.First, the Baucus bill would substantially increase the costs of coverage, for example by requiring rich benefits packages and coverage for Americans with pre-existing conditions at far less than their actual...
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CBO report: new taxes will balance Baucus health care bill
OpenMarket (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Those pushing the Senate health care bill were ecstatic when the Congressional Budget Office reported that the bill “would result in a net reduction in federal budget deficits of $81 billion over the 2010-2019 period.” But it’s more budgetary legerdemain, as Cato’s Michael Tanner pointed out today . Tanner notes that new health care taxes are the revenue-raising tools: The bill...
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DownsizeDC.org: You should accuse Congress of fraud
Liberty Maven (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
... own letter to Congress here. Perry Willis Communications Director DownsizeDC.org, Inc. Sources: A Michael Tanner op-ed in The New York Post D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h is the official email list of DownsizeDC.org, Inc. & Downsize DC Foundation
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Meet the Free Marketeers!
The Economic Way of Thinking (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Tonight a new, Mercer sanctioned student group that I'm very proud of, The Free Marketeers, holds its first formal meeting. We'll be discussing Frederic Bastiat's "The Seen and Unseen," Michael Tanner's "Obamacare to Come," and Paul Krugman's "Why Markets Can't...
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