The bane of any functioning government system is corruption. Corruption doesn’t just cause unfair and poor allocation of resources, it eventually undermines faith in the government. This, in turn, can create an extremely destructive, self-reinforcing, downward spiral, eventually undermining the entire system. The frightening thing for America is that there exists three main forms of [...]

After working very hard to kill many progressive idea about how best to control health care costs, Mary Landrieu has found one she likes. Too bad it is the one that will most benefit millionaires: I can only support a bill if the Cadillac plans are taxed at the level they are in the Senate [...]

Dorgan had the votes to pass his drug reimportation amendment, which would have saved the public over $100 billion and the government $19 billion.

But Joe Lieberman says it can’t be part of LieberCare, so I’m afraid the cost curve will have to be bent by making your health insurance worse.

Next up: the sham Lautenberg amendment, which inserts a poison pill into reimportation by pretending that drugs from CVS warehouses in Canada are really packed with rat poison in Chinese sweat shops.

Will Joe allow that to be part of LieberCare? Stay tuned!

Basically every other industrialized nation on earth has dramatically lower prescription drug prices because their governments negotiate on behalf of their citizens for lower drug prices. Even for Democrats this common sense solution to our insanely high drug prices is a step too far, so Democrats have been promoting the idea of drug re-importation. Now [...]

Harry Reid uses his control over procedure to do what Harry Reid wants to do. (Tell that fish story about “60 votes” and Joe Lieberman being the block to anything to someone else.) And what he wants to do is block Dorgan’s drug reimportation bill, and protect Obama’s PhRMA deal.

For almost a year, President Obama has spent countless hours trying to woo Olympia Snowe to support heath care reform. He has been willing to bend over backwards to give in to almost every one of her demands. It is very unfortunate that Snowe decided to use her new-found power for evil instead of good. [...]

We are now starting to see the beginning of a game of health care Jenga. The problem is the Democrats have seriously constrained themselves on what they can do. Obama set an arbitrary numeric cap of around $900 billion and demanded reform be fully paid for. Conservatives like Baucus, Conrad, and Snowe demanded that health [...]