20 Ways ObamaCare Will Take Away Our Freedoms. (via Instapundit)
Also, ObamaCare will push 16 million more poor people on to medical welfare (Medicaid). Where is the concern about increasing welfare dependency? Did we learn nothing from the 1994 bi-partisan welfare reform to make welfare more restrictive?
This health care reform bill is perhaps the single [...]

The Barrister at Maggie’s Farm asks: Why the skepticism about government health care? He answers the question: “because people have no confidence in government entitlement programs”. He explains why:
Social Security - bankrupt
Postal Service - bankrupt
Welfare - had devastating unintended consequences for which the nation still pays and from which the nation continues to suffer (eg [...]

In the abstract, government planning of health care sounds like it could be made efficient and fair. Handcuff or eliminate the private insurance companies, and eliminate their middleman overhead charges, and costs can be reduced. Just like socialism can be made to sound good on paper, government planned health can be made to sound good. [...]

More videos at NotSoSure.com. Their news links regarding health care reform are here.

Uh oh:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders on Wednesday said they would like to steer a comprehensive overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system through the House of Representatives by the end of July.
That would put the legislation on course for a debate in both the House and Senate during the fall and [...]

Should we be expanding government-funded health care at this time based along the models of Medicare and Medicaid? Dr. Steven Knope gives his view:
…As I mentioned in my first healthcare letter, we do not have the money to pay for our current nationalized healthcare experiments, which we call Medicare and Medicaid. [...]

Technology will be bringing us a brave new world regarding reproduction, as Randall Parker (Futurepundit) predicts:
I predict a big shift toward in vitro fertilization (IVF) as we learn more about what all the genetic variations mean. Once genetic testing of embryos can provide enormous details about the future of potential offspring many prospective parents will [...]

I have found that Robert Samuelson is one the most reliable reporters on economic and social policies. Regarding health care in the US he writes:
It is widely assumed that health care, like most aspects of American life, shamefully shortchanges the poor. This is less true than it seems. Economist Gary Burtless of the Brookings Institution [...]

Socialized medicine rocks, well, sort of. And who said that socialism thwarts individual initiative?
Some English people have resorted to pulling out their own teeth because they cannot find — or cannot afford — a dentist, a major study has revealed.
Six percent of those questioned in a survey of 5,000 patients admitted they had resorted to [...]

We are told by liberals and various health organizations how the socialized health care systems around the world provide better health care than the US approach. And we are regularly told that we spend a fortune yet for worse outcomes. I have often suspected we aren’t getting the full story. One thing that matters is [...]