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Believe it or not, this may end up being Romney’s best argument in the primaries. Electability, pure and simple. Sure, he’ll do what he can to salve the wound that RomneyCare has left on his campaign, but that scar will be with him forever now. The difference in places like New Hampshire and Florida won’t be his posturing about repealing O-Care; potentially, it’ll be the fact that Mitt, perhaps alone among major Republican figures, stands a chance at beating The One. People will shudder at me saying that since that was also the argument for McCain, but the landscape in...

As the Congressional Budget Office explained: "A mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented form of federal action. The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States." Yet, all of the House and Senate health-care bills being debated require Americans to either obtain or purchase expensive health insurance, estimated to cost up to $15,000 per year for a typical family, or pay substantial tax penalties for not doing so. The purpose of this compulsory contract, coupled with the arbitrary price ratios and...

Hannity and Dick Morris discussing ObamaCare. Consensus is that Pelosi will take whatever the Senate passes and ram it through the House in reconciliation. Passing this monstrosity is all the dems care about, even if it isn't what they want. They WILL NOT LET Obama make his state of the union whine in January without this bill having been signed into law. Dems are having a mass psychotic break on this, even if it means the Repubs retake both houses next November. Taxes take place immediately but benefits don't until 2013-2014. And they may get away with it since Obama...

In an interview on Fox News on August 27th Mark Wilson of Applied Economic Strategies made the economic case against the current plan for health care reform. He said the current idea for mandating employers to insure employees or pay a fine in the form of a tax would cost employers $49 billion dollars and cause the loss of 5.2 million jobs. In addition wages would be “stunted” for another 10.2 million wage earners. This seems like a high cost to make sure that everyone is covered. Doesn’t it make more sense to lower costs of health care and health...