Sorting Fact From Fiction on Health Care

In recent town-hall meetings, President Barack Obama has called for a national debate on health-care reform based on facts. It is fact that more than 40 million Americans lack coverage and spiraling costs are a burden on individuals, families and our economy. There is broad consensus that these problems must be addressed. But the public is skeptical that their current clinical care is substandard and that no government bureaucrat will come between them and ... Full Story »

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Michael Bugeja
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by Michael Bugeja - Aug. 30, 2009

A staff writer for the New Yorker and a physician at one of the city's premier hospitals team up to question Obama's health care initiative, noting what they claim to be manipulations of fact. Some valid evidence presented without necessarily revisisting data that contradicts their claims against universal health care.

Obama's big gaffe--and it is huge--concerns his wanting to reform health care rather than the insurance industry (same mistake as Hillary in 1993).

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