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At tonight’s New Hampshire GOP debate Mayor Rudy Giuliani commnets on the need for market based health care reform.

The RIGHT answer!

Others blogging:

National Review’s John Derbyshire: “ [Giuliani] jumps right into health insurance issue. Clear, concise.  He’s looking really good tonight.”
 

American Spectator’s James Poulos: “Rudy finally clear, commanding, and crisp on socialized health care. Standing up from his chair looks professional and respectful, a dare I say Clintonian assertiveness.”

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AP: Schwarzenegger’s health plan has critics

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking on just about every major interest group in California in his audacious effort to bring universal health care to the nation’s biggest state: unions, small business, doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, conservatives.

The Republican governor unveiled a $12 billion-a-year plan on Monday to extend health care coverage to most of California’s 6.5 million uninsured and make it the second state, behind Massachusetts, to require everyone to carry insurance. Coverage for the poorest of the poor would be free; for many others, it would be heavily subsidized.

Schwarzenegger also proposed to share the sacrifice by requiring individuals, employers and health care providers to contribute to the cost, saying the program will save billions, in part by providing preventive care, which is cheaper than waiting for people to get sick and treating them in the emergency room.

“Building on shared responsibility, where everyone does their part,” the governor said, “we will fix California’s broken health care system and create a model that can be used by the rest of the nation.”

But for all his optimism, Schwarzenegger is getting some pushback. Some of those who will have to pay are opposed, or at least leery.

Economists warn the plan will expose the state to runaway costs.

Calif.’s healthcare plan looks familiar

Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: TV Ads To Oppose Governor Schwarzenegger’s Radical Health Care Reform Proposal

Wall Street Journal: Terminatorcare

Real Clear Politics: Schwarzenegger’s Health Care Socialism by Ross Kaminsky

Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: California Governor Schwarzenegger Proposes RADICAL Health Care Reforms

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