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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Health Care

News                                                                                                                             
Politico | Bill Frist: Health care law here to stay
President Barack Obama’s health care law isn’t going anywhere even if the individual mandate is struck down by the courts, says heart surgeon and former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who sees the law’s provisions as mostly good.
National Journal | Report: Three-Fourths of Unemployed Can't Afford Health Care
The report released on Wednesday also found that 60 percent of working Americans rely on employer-provided health insurance. As 15 million working-age adults lost their jobs – and, possibly, employer health insurance – between 2008 and 2010, 9 million of those people stayed uninsured.
National Journal | New Report Finds Unplanned Pregnancy Rates Are on the Rise
Efforts to slow the rate of accidental pregnancies have stalled in the United States, but new government requirements that insurers pay for all birth control may help, researchers reported on Wednesday.

Econ Comments                                                                                                             
Fox News | Think the Government Handled the Financial Crisis Badly? Just Wait, Because Health Care Is Next
The names are different but the ideology is the same -- government can run things better than the private sector. The big difference is that the outcome of government run health care will be more than a blow to the pocketbook. This is life and death.