Has Obama's Health Care Win Driven Conservatives Crazy?
Joe Conason
Politics Daily
Not all progressives have been enthusiastic about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul from a policy perspective. It cedes a lot of control to private insurance companies; there is no public option. But they have at least one good reason to love the package: it has driven conservatives crazy.
Case in Point No. 1: Thomas Sowell. He's a prominent conservative intellectual, with an impressive right-wing pedigree. He's currently the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has taught at UCLA, Amherst, Brandeis, and Cornell. He's written many books. He's been a fierce opponent of affirmative action. In 2002, he won the National Humanities Medal for his prolific, scholarly writings covering the fields of economics, history, and political science. And now he's gone off the deep end.
In a column this week, he presents an tremendously alarming claim about the health care legislation -- a dire warning that was not part of the final congressional debate. The most frightening problem with the measure, he says, is not the cost of the bill or "the massive transfer of crucial decisions from millions of doctors and patients to Washington bureaucrats." It's far worse than that:
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Politics Daily
Not all progressives have been enthusiastic about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul from a policy perspective. It cedes a lot of control to private insurance companies; there is no public option. But they have at least one good reason to love the package: it has driven conservatives crazy.
Case in Point No. 1: Thomas Sowell. He's a prominent conservative intellectual, with an impressive right-wing pedigree. He's currently the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has taught at UCLA, Amherst, Brandeis, and Cornell. He's written many books. He's been a fierce opponent of affirmative action. In 2002, he won the National Humanities Medal for his prolific, scholarly writings covering the fields of economics, history, and political science. And now he's gone off the deep end.
In a column this week, he presents an tremendously alarming claim about the health care legislation -- a dire warning that was not part of the final congressional debate. The most frightening problem with the measure, he says, is not the cost of the bill or "the massive transfer of crucial decisions from millions of doctors and patients to Washington bureaucrats." It's far worse than that:
(More here.)
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