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<title>Michael F. Cannon (Author at The Cato Institute)</title>
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The Cato Institute seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets and peace. Toward that goal, the Institute strives to achieve greater involvement of the intelligent, concerned lay public in questions of policy and the proper role of government.
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				<title>Michael F. Cannon (Cato Institute)</title>
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				<title>McCain's Mediocre Tax Credit (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9763</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Until recently, John McCain's health plan had two features that libertarians and conservatives found appealing. One is his proposal to deregulate health insurance by letting people buy insurance across state lines. The other was his proposed health-insurance tax credit, which would expand choice and...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Michael F. Cannon parses the Obama health care plan. (Weekly Video)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=83</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Cato Institute's director of health policy studies, Michael F. Cannon, discusses the Obama health care plan and the claims Obama has made in favor of it.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Universal Coverage Kills (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9735</link>
				<description><![CDATA[In the final presidential debate, Barack Obama and John McCain continued to slug it out over health-care reform. McCain accused Obama of wanting to put all Americans in the type of single-payer system that exists in Canada and England. "Senator Obama wants to set up health care bureaucracies, take o...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Perspectives on an Individual Mandate (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9722</link>
				<description><![CDATA[This was originally presented at the NFIB Solutions Start Here forum, "Are Individual Mandates the Answer?", March 19, 2008.  Other participants' perspectives can be viewed here. Video and transcript available here. 

Reforming America's costly, inefficient and often low-quality healthcare sector ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>McCain's Plan Is Sound (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9707</link>
				<description><![CDATA[On tv the other night, an auto-insurance company promised to lower my premiums by letting me "only pay for the features that I need." 

Another ad followed, where a health-insurance company promised the same thing. Together, the pitchwoman and I eliminated coverage for chiropractors, acupuncturist...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=9707</guid>
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			<title>Factchecking the Factcheckers on Obama Health Plan (Daily Podcast)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=753</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Does Barack Obama Support Socialized Medicine? (Briefing Paper)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9679</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack
Obama (IL) has proposed an ambitious plan to
restructure America’s health care sector. Rather
than engage in a detailed critique of Obama’s
health care plan, many critics prefer to label it
"socialized medicine." Is that a fair description of
the Oba...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Biden vs. McCain on Health Care (Daily Podcast)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=749</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Joe Biden's Health Care Whopper (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9694</link>
				<description><![CDATA[In Thursday's vice presidential debate, Joe Biden changed his tune on John McCain's health care plan - but he's still singing off-key.


The centerpiece of McCain's plan is to alter the tax breaks the federal government grants those who purchase health insurance. Currently, every dollar your empl...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Universal Coverage Makes Medicine More Expensive and Less Safe (Speeches)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9725</link>
				<description><![CDATA[We have a moral obligation to provide medical care to those in need.  That is not where the disagreement lies.  Where we disagree is whether universal coverage would fulfill that moral obligation or, as I will argue, the very pursuit of universal coverage makes that obligation harder to fulfill.  
...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Cato Scholars Comment on the Rising Cost of Health Care (Scholar Comments)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/pressroom.php?display=ncomments&amp;id=133#blurb145</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Government controls half the nation's health care spending, gives employers control over a further 25 percent, and voila! health care costs are devouring everyone's paycheck because everyone is spending someone else's money. Universal coverage would just let government devour even more of workers' paychecks. The madness will end only when government returns the money to the workers and gets out of the way.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Medicare a Model for National Health Insurance? (Daily Podcast)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=681</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Still Limits on Second Amendment (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9519</link>
				<description><![CDATA[With its landmark ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court has put to rest a fashionable bit of constitutional revisionism, that the Second Amendment protects the states' power to arm militias, rather than the people's right to keep and bear arms. That interpretation led to numero...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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