Cato Experts Dissect Obama's Health Care Town Hall Meeting

President Obama on Wednesday answered questions on rising costs, taxing benefits, and many other issues during an ABC News special on health care reform, "Questions for the President: Prescription for America." Cato Institute scholars Michael D. Tanner and Michael F. Cannon respond to Obama's claims. Learn more about health care reform at http://healthcare.cato.org.

This video was produced by Austin Bragg ( http://www.twitter.com/habragg ) and Caleb Brown ( http://www.twitter.com/cobrown ).

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[jacquesgambl36]

Your video is popular on Antigua and Barbuda

[Seiku]

@iowntwocats Why?

[fistfulofknowledge]

Judging by the fact that they chose to name their institute after a slaver, slum lord, ultra-reactionary snob, then I find it quite hard to take them seriously.

[iowntwocats]

So the CATO institute is basically a den of psychopaths.

[TonikHealthInsurance]

Very useful information....! thanks for upload this video...!

[100CommonCents]

he's a planner, he's a dreamer...

When will people learn. seriously.

“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”

and also. obama-care is heavily backed by corporations. and is just a rehash of romney-care (exact same wording in some places)

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[Windsblow]

@vanderbilt887 I think you meant " demostrable". Your claim is quite a bold one. How do you supposed they are a "demonstrable threat to life on earth"? A Libertarian think tank? Has the power to destroy the way life works on earth. Quite a claim! A bit of Hyperbole there don't you think?

[Windsblow]

@rickbar123 To get more clear idea ( to a large degree) of my view of capitalism read Ayn Rands America's Persecuted Minority: Big Business and What is Capitalism?

[Windsblow]

@rickbar123 I wasn't real going to even validate this point by responding....... but, if a man kicks in my front door and kills my wife and I robbing me of life liberty and my property and rationalizing this crime through need. Then if he happened to be a raving, rabbed socialist and me being a capitalist then, by your logic, his socialism won and capitalism failed. Very simplistic argument and logically inept concept i would say.

[Windsblow]

@rickbar123 I guess we would have to first define what the definition of State or state and Capitalism or capitalism, but the short answer would be State Capitalism has more in common with Mussolini's Corporatism. On the other hand State Capitalism has has more in common, in principle, with Marxist philosophy than (c)apitalism (free markets). Philosophy(broad) and strict economic theory (narrow) are hard to compare.