Is Corporate Self-Interest Driving Healthcare Reform? - Michael Cannon

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/15/What_Does_Government-Run_Healthcare_Mean

Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute, suggests that big business support for the Obama administration's health reform is driven by "naked self-interest." Referring to Wal-Mart and Pharma, Cannon argues that "the administration is carving up the industry, picking winners and losers."

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Government-run health systems, such as the one in Canada, are pointed to by those on different sides of the issue as examples of what to do or not to do in health reform.

What lessons do these systems hold for the United States as it attempts to overhaul its health care system? What policies should Congress steer clear of?

Join Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute and co-author of Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It, and Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and author of Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen's Guide, for a discussion.

Pipes recounts her firsthand experience with the Canadian healthcare system, and both panelists explore what lies ahead for the United States. - Cato Institute

Michael F. Cannon is the Cato Institute's director of health policy studies. Previously, he served as a domestic policy analyst at the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee under Senator Larry E. Craig (R-ID), where he advised the Senate leadership on health, education, labor, welfare, and Second Amendment policy.

In addition, Cannon has worked as a health care policy analyst for Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation in Washington, D.C. Cannon has appeared on CNN, CNBC, C-SPAN, Fox News Channel, and NPR. His articles have been featured in USA Today, the New York Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Most recently, Cannon coauthored the book Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It.

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[reed0the0red]

I desperately want your statement to make sense, but it doesn't. I am going to define a few words for you so that maybe you can use them accurately in context next time.

Socialism - workers own the means of production.

Capitalism - means of production (capital) is privately controlled.

Corporation - immortal citizen granted rights under the 14th amendment so as to relieve liability from shareholders and CEO's.

America is not becoming socialist and it is not capitalist it is a poly oligarchy

[NatureLegalized]

"The purpose of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority" -James Madison

"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes."

~ Felix Frankfurter U.S. Supreme Court Justice

[TurnerShrugs]

I hate when people dont understand that the appropriate response to corruption is to DEPRIVE the POLITICIAN of POWER. Thought you could trust them? Are you NUTS? You want them to succeed in FORCING us into the individual mandate and unconstitutional Universal Single-payer? Have you learned NOTHING watching the Bush administration shred the Constitution? You think the confetti will be PRETTIER when the Dems do it?

YOU, my friend, wouldnt recognize a disaster if it happened in your PANTS!

[NatureLegalized]

"Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places

will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong

its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."

-Abraham Lincoln, in an 1864 letter

[reed0the0red]

Madison quote, Federalist Document Number 10. You do realize when he states 'minority' he is speaking of the 'wealthy minority' right. James Madison in that same document also stated that all mans right are derived from property. Otherwise the only thing that makes us different is the stuff we own and our stuff must be protected from the greedy poor majority.

[xiola6969]

The measure would require that millions of Americans purchase private insurance for the first time

What happend to making corps pay ? o yea the USA government is a sell out to the highest bidder, it isnt like this isnt all being pushed though by drug companies and large medical special interests, I SAY IT WILL BE WAR, Socialism will not be tolerated U want that get the fuck out of the usa, if you dont leave peacefully will make you

[FreiheitKampfer]

They both sell out.

Downsize despotism, increase legal equality.

It's the only way to go about solving these problems.

[oleinfidel]

in a word, yes.

[NatureLegalized]

Direct Democracy - Direct Voting - Ni4D

[NatureLegalized]

"Being a democrat means, primarily, not being afraid"

~István Bibó (1911-79)