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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Peter Suderman writes that proponents of net neutrality say that the policy is necessary to preserve the Internet's long-standing openness. Without tougher regulations, they claim, we could end up with a corporate-controlled Web that stifles free speech, hurts innovators, and denies the public its rightful access to a powerful communications tool. And they point to studies they argue...
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Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
PETER SUDERMAN: $900 Billion House Health-Care Reform Bill Likely to Cost More than $900 Billion. Well, if by “likely” you mean “pretty damn certain.”
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To God and my country (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Peter Suderman writes that the GOP is splitting with Big Business . As political alliances go, few are more cemented in the public consciousness than the bond between the Republican Party and business. But, upon closer inspection, the GOP–big business relationship doesn't seem so cozy. Has there ever been a more effective bit of propaganda than the idea that Republicans are all...
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
On Newsweek' s website, Reason associate editor Peter Suderman examines conflicts between conservative Republicans and business interests : As political alliances go, few are more cemented in the public consciousness than the bond between the Republican Party and business. But, upon closer inspection, the GOP–big business relationship doesn't seem so cozy. Take health-care reform....
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
... an individual mandate requiring every American to buy health insurance. Yet as Associate Editor Peter Suderman writes, even without any form of public option, a nationwide mandate opens the door to de facto government control over the entire insurance industry—while potentially killing off the low-cost plans that could truly revolutionize American medicine.
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All American Blogger (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
If the definition of insanity is repeating the same action over and over and expecting a different result, even though you continually get the same result, why is Congress acting in such an insane way? Peter Suderman, writing in the Wall Street Journal today points out some of the many times that universal health has [...] Related posts: Something McCain is Doing Right: His Health Care...
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Will a health-care bill finally pass? How important is the insurance mandate? And what do new FTC regulations mean for bloggers? Reason associate editor Peter Suderman talks about these questions and more on this week's Inside Washington Weekly .
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
As Congress considers a massive overhaul of the nation's health-care system, it's worth examining whether those reforms have already worked at the state level. Like participants in a national science fair, writes associate editor Peter Suderman, state governments have tested variants on most of the major components of the health-care reform plans currently being considered in Congress....
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Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
PETER SUDERMAN: Democrats Have Become Their Own Worst Enemies On Health-Care.
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
As health-care reform struggles to stay afloat, Democrats are desperate to pin the blame on Republicans. But as Peter Suderman writes, the truth is that no matter how much Democrats gripe, it's their own fault. Read all about it here.
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
Peter Suderman writes a thorough column outlining each Democratic senator’s particular objection to the Baucus bill. However, his most prescient sentence is in the last paragraph (“The Body Politics,” PostScript, Sept. 20). He quotes Robert Goldberg,...
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The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Peter Suderman tackles yours truly for backing the netroots in pressuring Obama to keep his promises while disparaging the tea-partiers for doing the same thing. His point is a decent one. In response, I'd say that I have no problem...
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Who Hijacked Our Country (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
... NOOO!!! The most glaring example right now is the health reform debate. As this article by Peter Suderman says: “From the time the bill hit Congress, Republicans found themselves opposite big industry interests. From the drugmakers to the doctors to the insurers, every major player in the health-care battle declared themselves willing to work with Democrats to enact some variant...
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BitsBlog (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Over at Reason this morning, Peter Suderman suggests something I”ve been slowly coming around to, myself. He looks at the on again / off again agreement between the White House and the Democrats in Congress, on what is or is not supportable in a government run ‘option’. (We both know in the end, the thing [...]
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LyfLines (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Ezra Klein thinks that the lack of program specificity from the White House is causing problems for Congressional Democrats, as "no one knows quite how to structure their strategy so long as the White House refuses to fully show its cards." Clearly, Peter Suderman has this exactly right: what Obama really supports is the passage of a bill—any bill, just so long as it can...
