Cato Experts Dissect Obama’s Health Care Town Hall Meeting
10.September, 2009
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 ).
Duration : 0:5:26
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
It is amazing that …
It is amazing that (some of) the information in this video is basicEconomics (1st year college, if that)… but many remain aloof.
Even the alleged fact-checkers are constantly saying “but, but, Obama said…”—as if saying something means that it is true.
If I said that I could fly, physically, on my own accord, would the fact checkers say “but he said he could” to anyone who disagrees.
Simply slander against the truth.
Eliminate the big government that exists… that is fixing it
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
since when did the …
since when did the ‘cato institute’ get promoted from partisan libertarian hacks to “expert”
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
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whatsinthehealthcarebill(dot)com
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
watch?v=WpYqpOG7NJg
watch?v=WpYqpOG7NJg
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
sigh. it’s the cato …
sigh. it’s the cato institute. they’re a libertarian think tank. it doesn’t matter what obama says. as long as the government is involved they’re going to claim that it won’t work because it’s against their ideology (i.e. libertarianism).
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
Troll, based on …
Troll, based on your comments, you don’t seem able to comprehend.
I didn’t say don’t read. I inferred that debating minutia is less relevant than understanding the basic alignment of principles that emanate from key sections of (any of these) bills.
Comprendas? I can write more slowly if that helps you.
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
Obama is the Mao …
Obama is the Mao Zedong of 21st century. While the present generation of Chinese leadership eradicated Maoism from Chinese soil, Obama is trying to implement Maoism in American soil.
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
lying sonofabitch …
lying sonofabitch needs to resign
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
And I’m especially …
And I’m especially bothered by the fact that the right kept on using this “slippery slope” argument. Can I arrest someone because his behavior shows that he’s on a “slippery slope” into being a serial killer? The left was guilty of the same thing when GWB was president and it seems like the table had turned.
US people have no principals, no individuality. They think what TV tells them to think. They what Fox News, MSNBC, CNN tells them to think.
Read people. Understand. Don’t follow.
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
I think it’s funny …
I think it’s funny how both the left and the right are guilty of making claims for what’s going to happen IN THE FUTURE.
But a bill is nothing but law. It does not show emotion nor preference. It is the purest form of information without bias. Making a judgment before reading it would be like passing on judgment on someone without trial.
Get your facts straight and making a judgment based on your own principles. Not have other’s principles forced upon you.
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
In other words, …
In other words, it’s not necessary to read any of the bills before supporting or opposing them. Facts and details don’t matter, just rhetoric and ideology.
Sadly, you’re a pretty good example of a modern conservative.
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
98wong, please …
98wong, please consider that within the framework of discussion that basic principles are involved: principles that cut to issues of individual liberty rights vs statism, accountability, financial and economic impact.
We can see within specific proposals how certain aspects of each of the bills tilt with regard to these fundamental issues.
We should focus our framework of discussion not on minutia, but these fundamental issues. Agree on principles, the rest will come…
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
I agree, absolutely.
I agree, absolutely.
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
All of them.
If …
All of them.
If people are so passionate about this issue, the very least they can do is to get the information first hand. Not from any spun media or institutions from either the left or the right.
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
All of them.
If …
All of them.
If you’re going to be so passionate about the issue, shouldn’t people take the time to learn about it first hand? The only no spin zone is the source.
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
What “bill” are you …
What “bill” are you talking about? There are five of them.
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
You know I find it …
You know I find it interesting that this debate is so heated and the two sides are so different, but very little people actually spend time reading and understanding the actual bill before making a judgment of whether to vote for or against it.
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
The more I see …
The more I see Obama the more I feel like he’s trying to destroy our economy in such a way in order to blame the Americans for the problem, rather than the special-ed central bankers that think they can get away with using fiat currencies to run the world. I am just waiting for some type of intrinsic value to return to money. Hitler thought the gold-standard was useless too, don’t be surprised when we get Govt. regulated prices! and rationed basic supplies. Look at Zimbabwe’s money problem…
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
“Clinton …
“Clinton steroidizing the Community Redevelopment Act”
Interesting that both you and Cirrusbill refer to the Community REINVESTMENT Act that way. Are you sock puppets, or a couple? Just curious.
If the CRA was the problem it sure took long enough to show up, considering that CRA was passed in 77 and the housing bubble started in 2005.
I suppose the CFMA (2000) and the ADDI (2003) had nothing to do with the subprime bubble in your world view?
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
Moron. “The New …
Moron. “The New Deal delayed the recovery.” I suppose you’re going to cite the usual Austrian Economics crap about how the minor 1921 recession (unemployment never more than 10%) is an example of how fast recoveries occur without govt. intervention.
1933: FDR umes power, unemployment 25%
1940: unemployment 9% thanks to New Deal.
“We now have protections from collapses”
Damned right you do, thanks to that “socialist” FDR.
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
Good Presentation …
Good Presentation of both sides.
but until we get HONEST money, with Gold & Silver standard,
as required, we won’t know WHAT the cost of Private or Public
Health care is going to cost.
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
Good presentation …
Good presentation of both sides.
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
Go Cato! Tell The …
Go Cato! Tell The Truth & Get it Told!
To with,
osamabama & his socialist cronies!
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
Jail, impeach and …
Jail, impeach and convict this international criminal felon, Barry Soetoro. He’s the worst human being ever born into this world. Once we take him out of office, we can then go after the Rockafellers, the Rothchild’s, who own Reuters, and 100% of the U.S. Congress who are in on this FRAUD.
It’s all a scam and all a FRAUD, and WE THE PEOPLE will win this war of usurpers who have taken over our beloved country.
10.September, 2009 um 6:20 am
“It was free market …
“It was free market capitalism that caused the great depression ”
Elaborate, please.
(btw I’m not the type of guy that justs asks that to be an , I really would like you to elaborate if you could.)