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Ross Perot's approach is what we need to break the muddle over health care reform

On By Alfredo LanierIn Uncategorized18 Comments

Won't someone please inject somefacts and figures into the health care debate? The more the debate trudges on in Washington over health care reform, also known as the campaign to repeal Obamacare, the less I understand even the basic contours of the ruckus. So confused am I that I woke up this morning thinking about Ross Perot, …

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Broccoli and universal health care

On By Alfredo LanierIn Uncategorized7 Comments

During oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court two weeks ago Justice Antonin Scalia derisively compared the mandated insurance requirement of President Obama's health care law with a theoretical government mandate for Americans to buy and presumably eat broccoli. If the federal government can impose one mandate, why not the other?It was supposed to be …

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