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Michael F. Cannon

Opinion and Commentary

"ObamaCare Is Not Pro-Choice -- for Anyone," TownHall.com, November 13, 2009

"Warning Label for Pelosicare," Orange County Register, November 13, 2009

"Passing Bill As Bad As PelosiCare Quite An Achievement For Dems," Investor's Business Daily, November 11, 2009

"The $1.5 Trillion Fraud," National Review (Online), November 6, 2009

"Max's Budget-Gimmick Magic," New York Post, October 13, 2009

"You Mislead!," by Michael F. Cannon and Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review (Online), September 28, 2009

"Government, by Definition, Cannot Compete Fairly," Los Angeles Times, September 18, 2009

"Give Market Forces Room to Breathe, and Costs Will Decrease," Los Angeles Times, September 18, 2009

"Break Local Monopolies by Letting Insurers Compete across State Lines," Los Angeles Times, September 16, 2009

"Massachusetts' Obama-like Reforms Increase Health Costs, Wait Times," Detroit News, August 27, 2009

"Sorry Folks, Sarah Palin Is (Partly) Right," Detroit Free Press, August 19, 2009

"When Out of Hope, Feign Change," TownHall.com, August 17, 2009

"Give True Account of Health Plan's Cost," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, August 12, 2009

"Busting the Bay State: Hiding the Cost of Health Reform," Providence Journal, August 10, 2009

"House Dems Hide Cost Of Health Plan," Investor's Business Daily, July 29, 2009

"Romney's Folly - Health-Care Mandates Are a Middle-Class Tax," National Review, July 24, 2009

"Let Customers Control The Money And Market Will Cure Health Care," Investor's Business Daily, July 16, 2009

"A Closer Look at Those Industry Deals," KaiserHealthNews.org, July 16, 2009

"Health Care Reform: Questions for the President," ABC News.com, June 24, 2009

"Is Universal Coverage Comparatively Effective?," KaiserHealthNews.org, May 31, 2009

"Placebo - Why the Democrats' Proposals Will Not Work," National Review, May 13, 2009

"Health Care Reform? Maybe Next Year," NPR.org, May 11, 2009

"Is the Stimulus a Bad Investment?," National Public Radio, February 19, 2009

"Does SCHIP Work?," National Review (Online), February 2, 2009

"Daschle Care," National Review (Online), January 30, 2009

"Avoiding Health-Care Chaos," Washington Times, December 28, 2008

"McCain's Mediocre Tax Credit," National Review (Online), November 3, 2008

"Universal Coverage Kills," National Review (Online), October 21, 2008

"Perspectives on an Individual Mandate," Cato.org, October 17, 2008

"McCain's Plan Is Sound," New York Post, October 9, 2008

"Joe Biden's Health Care Whopper," New York Daily News, October 3, 2008

"Still Limits on Second Amendment," Orange County Register, July 1, 2008

"Congress Messing with Your HSA," Orange County Register, May 12, 2008

"Markets Beat Government on Medical Errors," by Michael F. Cannon and Alain Enthoven, American Spectator (Online), May 13, 2008

"Healthy McCain," National Review (Online), May 8, 2008

"Sinking SCHIP," USA TODAY (MAGAZINE), November 19, 2007

"Is Compromise on SCHIP Sunk?," OCRegister.com, October 17, 2007

"Friends Want Friends to Do Health Care," National Review (Online), October 16, 2007

"HillaryCare II: Just as bad as HillaryCare I," by Michael D. Tanner and Michael F. Cannon, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, October 6, 2007

"Sink this SCHIP," New York Post, September 24, 2007

"Dr. Hillary Will See You Now," National Review (Online), September 18, 2007

"Socialized Medicine is Already Here," TCSdaily.com, September 6, 2007

"Fix Health Care by Making Americans Care About Costs," USA Today, September 5, 2007

"Romney's New Rx," American Spectator, August 31, 2007

"How to Cover Them," New York Sun, August 28, 2007

"Dr. Romney Goes National," National Review (Online), August 27, 2007

"Let Go of the Status Quo," New York Sun, July 6, 2007

"A "Right" to Health Care?," National Review (Online), June 29, 2007

"I'm Not Going to Pay a Lot for This MRI," Weekly Standard, June 15, 2007

"What Mitt and Hillary Have in Common," National Review, June 5, 2007

"It's Not the Uninsured, Stupid," TCSdaily.com, April 20, 2007

"Universal Healthcare's Dirty Little Secrets," by Michael D. Tanner and Michael F. Cannon, Los Angeles Times, April 5, 2007

"Curing Walter Reed Syndrome; A Proposal Even Anti-War Doves Should Embrace," TCSdaily.com, March 19, 2007

"A Better Way to Give Dental Care to the Poor," Baltimore Examiner, March 13, 2007

"Saving Dentistry From the Jaws of Defeat," American.com, March 12, 2007

"What Bush's Healthcare Plan Will Do for New Yorkers," New York Sun, February 1, 2007

"A New Prescription for Health Care," New York Post, January 23, 2007

"Schwarzenegger’s Health-Care Shakedown," National Review (Online), January 22, 2007

"Medicaid a Low-Wage Trap," Albuquerque Journal, December 8, 2006

"Fix Medicare - Not Its Prices," New York Post, October 10, 2006

"How About Some Healthy Competition?," Philadelphia Inquirer, June 28, 2006

"GOP Health Proposals Sickening," Boston Herald, May 3, 2006

"Medicare? But That's for Old People," Washington Times, April 1, 2006

"VHA Is Not the Way," National Review (Online), March 6, 2006

"Health Savings Accounts Work," Philadelphia Inquirer (Online), February 5, 2006

"Heed the Diagnosis, Beware the Prescription," National Review (Online), January 26, 2006

"A Blueprint for Health-care Freedom," Washington Times, January 25, 2006

"Eight Reasons To Delay the Imprudent Drug Program," The Hill, November 9, 2005

"Medicare Drug Plan: Repeal or Join?," Detroit Free Press, November 7, 2005

"Out With the HSAs?," National Review (Online), October 31, 2005

"Katrina's Medicaid Boondoggle," by Michael D. Tanner and Michael F. Cannon, Cato.org, October 21, 2005

"Offset Opportunities," American Spectator, October 18, 2005

"Choice & Security," National Review (Online), October 14, 2005

"Kids Just Pawns in Governor's Big Government Scheme," Chicago Sun-Times, October 13, 2005

"Health Care Needs a Dose of Competition," Investor's Business Daily, October 4, 2005

"Real Competition Is the Cure for Health care," Benefitnews.com, October 1, 2005

"Medicaid Is Behind the Decline in Private Health Coverage," Union Leader, September 19, 2005

"A Cure for What Ails Medicaid," San Francisco Chronicle, September 8, 2005

"A Response to Jonathan Cohn: Healthy Choice," New Republic (Online), August 23, 2005

"AHP: Big Government in Three Easy Letters," Cato.org, July 26, 2005

"Medicaid's Untallied Costs," AMA-Assn.org, July 1, 2005

"HSAs Are No Solution for Medicaid," Myrtle Beach Sun News, June 7, 2005

"Cuts Without Tears," National Review (Online), May 18, 2005

"Welfare Reform's Unfinished Business," National Review (Online), May 17, 2005

"Roadmap for Medicaid Reform ," by Michael F. Cannon and Adrienne Aldredge, Cato.org, April 20, 2005

"Medicare vs. Social Security: Who's On First?," National Review (Online), April 14, 2005

"How to Save Medicare," San Francisco Chronicle, April 3, 2005

"Why Is Tommy Thompson Sad?," Reason (Online), March 29, 2005

"Medicare Shortfall Needs President's Attention," Monterey County Herald, March 6, 2005

"New Medicare Benefit Will Outspend Projections," Fox News (Online), February 27, 2005

"Trimming Waistlines by Trimming Government," by Michael F. Cannon and Radley Balko, Cato.org, October 27, 2004

"Bush, Kerry Ignore What's Ailing Health Care: Red Tape," Chicago Sun-Times, October 16, 2004

"Clinton Got Quick Care, Unlike Canadian Heart Patients," Cato.org, September 8, 2004

"This Campaign's Not to Our Health," Boston Herald, September 7, 2004

"Kerry vs. Health Care," New York Post, July 27, 2004

"Barbarians at the Gates," Cato.org, July 26, 2004

"Schools Shouldn't Play Doctor," by Michael F. Cannon and Marie Gryphon, Cato.org, July 14, 2004

"Healthy CHOICE," National Review (Online), June 23, 2004

"Free Market Is the Answer," USA Today, June 15, 2004

"Medicaid Encourages Dependency," York Dispatch, June 7, 2004

"Repeal Medicare Drug Entitlement," Wichita Eagle, June 1, 2004

""Cover the Uninsured Week" -- With Honesty," Cato.org, May 20, 2004

"Hillary's Worst Nightmare," Cato.org, May 9, 2004

"Kerry Prescribes More Government-Run Health Care," Cato.org, April 23, 2004

"An Unhealthy Tradition," National Review (Online), March 26, 2004

"A Billion Here, a Billion There," Reason (Online), February 28, 2004

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