Featuring Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ); and Bill Watson, Trade Policy Analyst, Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; moderated by Laura Odato, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
We are grateful to the Harry and Lynde Bradley Foundation and the Carthage Foundation whose support of the October 2012 Cato Conference “Europe’s Crisis and the Welfare State: Lessons for the United States” made possible this special issue of the Cato Journal.
Renowned development economist Deepak Lal draws on 50 years of experience around the globe to describe developing-country realities and rectify misguided notions about economic progress.
The Cato Institute tops a new measure of think tank performance in the United States, according to a recent report. Cato bested all other U.S. think tanks in the main category of “Aggregate Profile per Dollar Spent.” “I’m grateful to the Center for Global Development for showing that Cato gives its sponsors something I wish government gave more of to taxpayers: bang for the buck,” said Cato CEO John Allison.
Republicans and Democrats are both missing the point of true health care reform: “Health care reform cannot just be about giving more stuff to more people. It should be about actually ‘reforming’ the system. That means scrapping the current bills, and crafting the type of reform that makes consumers responsible for their health care decisions.”
The White House meeting on health care began at 10:00 AM EST Thursday and Cato health policy experts offered live commentary for the opening remarks. You can read through the live-blog in the player below.
The American people have been solidly against the Democrats’ universal-coverage plan since July 2009.
Roughly 60 percent of the public wants Congress to scrap that legislation and start over.
President Obama will nevertheless use that legislation as the starting point for negotiations with Republicans at next week’s health care summit.
Mmmm, that’s good fervor.
Republican summiteers shouldn’t spend too much time discussing their own ideas – which aren’t going anywhere, and really aren’t that great anyway – lest they unwittingly aid Democrats in changing the below-illustrated narrative. They should instead focus like a laser beam on the dangersoftheDemocrats’legislation, and how dangerously close it is to becoming law.
Then they can all return to the drawing board and come back with better ideas.
