Reality Check: Column Ignores Facts about Health Reform
In today’s Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer takes great pains to paint a bleak picture of health care reform as "monstrous," "overregulated," and rife with "arbitrary bureaucratic inventions." The columnist’s argument may be cogent and well-written, but it is wholly inaccurate.
Krauthammer describes a "better choice" for health reform as having three elements: tort reform, interstate purchasing [...]
An Update on "Reality Check"
Since the White House’s Reality Check site launched, we’ve seen incredible response from individuals eager to get the facts about health insurance reform and pass them along to family and friends.
An ironic development is that the launch of an online program meant to provide facts about health insurance reform has itself become the target of [...]
Barack Obama — making it up as he goes along
President Obama is fond of claiming that the debate over health care has been hijacked by special interest groups and other bad guys who are deluding the public by providing misinformation. It will be interesting, then, to see how (and if) he responds to this statement by the American College of Surgeons, which accuses [...]
The Matter With Myths
With the fight over the future of the United States health care
system now upon us, conservatives find themselves at a tremendous
disadvantage. The Democrats are in control of the White House and
Congress and they now count as allies many of the same special
interest groups, such as [...]
