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Thomas Sowell

Recent columns
A Personal Inequity
A Tangled Web: Part II
A Tangled Web

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[LostInBayport]

Thanks for posting this...Mr. Sowell has an unparalleled ability to bring clarity to convoluted issues like sunlight through a fog!

What a mind...

[RightField]

Once again, Dr. Sowell has explained the problem clearly. He never fails to provide succinct arguments that I regularly steal when talking with my (few) liberal acquaintences. He is a national treasure.

[Earthdweller]

Common sense...I love it.

I also like Manning's take....why do 280 million Americans have to give up their health care so that 42 million can get some?

You know that is where this is all headed. Cheap, lousy government care will price the good care out of the market (China care?). Government masters are using market principles to put us all under their knife.

China care with lead chips in it, who needs it?

[GOPJ]

There are facts about the massive government-run medical programs already in existence in the United States — Medicare, Medicaid and veterans' hospitals — as well as government-run medical systems in other countries.

Oh My God.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I wonder if there's a way of getting a poster with Sowell's photo on it . . .

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“As for those uninsured Americans we keep hearing about, there is remarkably little interest in why they don’t have insurance. It cannot be poverty, for the poor can automatically get Medicaid. “

BUMP!

I read the other day that something like 85% of people with insurance are HAPPY with their coverage. And really; where are the dead and dying in the streets who are denied assistance? Not a one to be found, fer Pete’s Sake! 0bama doesn’t even have ANYONE who is being denied care to trott out for public appearances on this topic! (Well, unless you count those that are being starved to death, ala Terry Schaivo! Grrrrrrr!)

I know I am VERY happy with my current coverage. I have a very affordable policy through my employer (who demanded a rate reduction last your...and GOT it!) which covers myself (rarely used) my husband’s monthly meds and all of his pre-existing conditions.

Government will do NOTHING but SCREW THIS UP!

[MortMan]

The confusion of "health care" with medical care is the crucial confusion. Years ago, a study showed that Mormons live a decade longer than other Americans. Are doctors who treat Mormons so much better than the doctors who treat the rest of us? Or do Mormons avoid doing a lot of things that shorten people's lives?

This reminds me of a joke... Why do husbands die before their wives? BECAUSE THEY WANT TO!

I'm surprised that Mr. Sowell didn't draw a bead on the most deliberate confusion of all: The confusion of "health insurance" with "health care"

[Tolik]

 

Thomas Sowell provides the most logical and clearest critique of Obama/Pelosi medical care reform. The best ammunition against empty rhetoric!

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