February 26, 2009 3:27PM 

# Hmmmm, Why Would That Be? 

By [Michael D. Tanner](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-d-tanner) 

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[Weak Health Care Stocks Drag Market Lower](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3683270/) 

— Associated Press, February 26, 2009

[Obama Proposes $634 Billion Fund for Health Care](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/25/AR2009022502587_pf.html) 

— *Washington Post*, February 26, 2009

So the government wants to take over one-seventh of the U.S. economy and the market drops. I’m shocked.

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