Post tagged with policy

  • 'The American public is growing concerned'

    June 24th, 200910:01 AM ET
    By Joseph Slife
    The citizenry appears to be getting increasingly apprehensive about the growth of government spending and the Obama administration's intrusions into the private sector. From MSNBC: As the young Obama administration spends trillions of dollars in its effort to turn around the nation's economy and revive the U.S. auto industry, the American p...

  • Health care: The 'public plan' would become the only plan

    June 18th, 200909:38 AM ET
    By Joseph Slife
    Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Scott Harrington, a professor of health-care management and insurance at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, takes issue with a central claim of the emerging Obama health plan - namely, the idea that private companies would "compete" with a new government-backed health insurer, thus offering consum...

  • Media giving a free pass on jobs numbers

    June 10th, 200909:28 AM ET
    By Mark Biller
    A new turn of phrase has been cropping up in recent discussions of U.S. jobs and unemployment. "Saved or created" is the new catch-phrase for the Obama team as they explain that the stimulus is doing what it is supposed to do. The only problem is, those "saved or created" jobs figures are pure fiction. Totally made up. And while it's a ridiculous ...

  • The things that aren't yet happening - and why

    June 05th, 200909:33 AM ET
    By Joseph Slife
    This week's de facto nationalization of General Motors is part of a growing chain of government actions giving pause to business decision-makers and long-term investors. In a Forbes column (written before GM's announcement), Thomas F. Cooley, dean of the Stern School of Business at New York University, says government overreach is to bla...

  • How Washington rations

    May 27th, 200910:05 AM ET
    By Joseph Slife
    The editorial page of the Wall Street Journal is ramping up its opposition to President Obama's plan for universal health insurance coverage. It's not because members of the paper's editorial board don't want people to have access to good health care - it's because they do. The WSJ says the evidence of what is likely to happen if the Oba...
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