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...monetary stimulus, do you mean the Fed needs to print more money? An increase in the money supply has historically always motivated people to spend and end a recession. And I don't know if there's any evidence that fiscal stimulus has the same effect on people's habits. All that Obama's fiscal stimulus bill has achieved is to put an enormous fiscal deficit on the Federal Government. (See pictures of the dangers of printing money...
When you say limitations, do you mean the quality of health care won't be as good? The quality, the incentive to provide innovations in health care, will all be in danger by the government's intervention. A lot of people in Canada cannot get ordinary [surgical] procedures because there's a limit on what the government provision of health care allows. So people are lined up for years to get ordinary procedures that in America are just routine. You can get a hip replacement [here] without waiting for years, and you don't have to be a celebrity...
...before any bill can get to the Senate floor, lawmakers have to figure out a way to pay for it, and their current proposal is running up against stiff resistance from Democrats. Polls show that voters are resistant to any means of paying for health reform - and especially to the idea of taxing benefits they are accustomed to getting tax-free. In June, for instance, a Washington Post/ABC poll asked respondents whether they would support taxing employer-provided benefits, even if it were limited to relatively generous plans worth $17,000 a year or more; 7 out of 10 said...
...Washington, where even a flat no can mean maybe, this answer will almost certainly be taken to mean "Yes, she's running," heedless of the widely spouted view that she blew her chance with the decision to quit her current job. Left, right and center, pundits opined on the lightness of Palin's résumé and her vanished chance to beef it up. How could she seek a promotion when she didn't finish the job she had? Even a fan like columnist Fred Barnes, writing in the pro-Palin Weekly Standard, declared glumly, "Forget about Sarah Palin...
...family of four - would be eligible for government subsidies to help them purchase coverage. But if the antiabortion legislators get their way, those subsidies would have a big string attached; they could not be used to purchase a policy that has abortion coverage. For many women, that would mean giving up a benefit they now have under their private insurance policies. And it would raise all sorts of other questions if insurers were allowed to discriminate among their customers based on whether or not they are using federal dollars to pay for their policies...