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<title><![CDATA[Michael Cannon - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/19021.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Michael Cannon]]></description><category domain="19021">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Dems&rsquo; Shutdown Stunt Exposes Obamacare Fraud]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/7/democrats-latest-shutdown-stunt-exposes-obamacare-fraud/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the second week in a row, Democrats are blocking roughly a quarter of federal spending, causing what Washington calls a government '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'shutdown,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' unless'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Congress'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' gives additional billions of taxpayer dollars to private health insurance companies via Obamacare. Republicans...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Is Now Optional]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/obamacare-is-now-optional</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At long last, the Trump administration has created a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'freedom option'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' for people suffering under Obamacare.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Obamacare Punishes the Sick]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Cato Institute's Michael F. Cannon writes that patients with costly conditions like MS are seeing coverage cut.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Could Fix Our Health-Care System &amp; Cut Taxes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442529/obamacare-donald-trump-repeal-replace-tax-cuts</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Donald Trump and the Republican Congress have a mandate to do anything, it is to repeal Obamacare. The law is already cratering. Sick enrollees, former president Bill Clinton laments, are seeing their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half. Even supportive economists admit...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Aetna Has Revealed Obamacare's Many Broken Promises]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/4466081/broken-obamacare-promises/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re dropping like flies.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The health-insurance giant Aetna has announced it will exit 11 of the 15 health-insurance exchanges where it sells Obamacare plans. Aetna'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s announcement comes on the heels of news that UnitedHealthcare,Humana, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How David Brooks Created Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/#1b7f8f8e3952</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[7 Things to Know About Burwell]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/414809/seven-things-you-should-know-about-irs-rule-challenged-king-v-burwell-michael-f</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This week, the Supreme Court considers King v. Burwell. At issue is whether the IRS exceeded its authority under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by issuing a final IRS rule that expanded the application of the Act'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s subsidies and mandates beyond the limits imposed by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Flip-Flopping Architect of the Health Law]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/07/jonathan-gruber-the-flip-flopping-architect-of-the-aca-109466.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, the D.C. Circuit ruled that the Obama administration has been implementing Obamacare illegally. Days later, a video featuring the law'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s chief architect confirmed the court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s ruling and raised questions about whether administration officials knew they were breaking...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As Predicted, Obamacare Plunges Into Chaos]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelcannon/2013/12/27/as-predicted-obamacare-plunges-into-utter-chaos/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My December 2012 prediction that ObamaCare'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s health insurance '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'exchanges'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' would not be ready on time proved true by July 2013, when President Obama unilaterally delayed the law'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s employer mandate for a year. It proved painfully, obviously true when the Exchanges...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Gives Congress an Obamacare Waiver]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/355176/congresss-obamacare-waiver-michael-f-cannon</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America has a two-party system. But it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not Republicans versus Democrats. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the ruling class '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Republicans and Democrats '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' against everyone else. Consider how President Obama just gave Congress its very own Obamacare waiver.Obamacare includes a provision that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fissures in Dems' Support for Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/19/fissures_in_dems_support_for_obamacare_119293.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama touted Obamacare'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s supposed benefits Thursday in the hope of distracting attention from Wednesday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s bipartisan House vote that for the first time revealed fissures in congressional Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' lockstep support for his health care law. An unprecedented 35...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fourth Circuit Deals Hidden Blow to Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/15/fourth_circuit_deals_hidden_blow_to_obamacare_119222.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Obamacare had a rough day in court yesterday.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' In'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Liberty University v. Lew, the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' ruled against'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Liberty University'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s challenge to various aspects of the law. One might think, as SCOTUSblog'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' reported, this was a victory for the Obama...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Oregon Study Throws a Stop Sign in Front of ObamaCare's Medicaid Expansion]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/02/oregon_study_throws_a_stop_sign_in_front_of_obamacares_medicaid_expansion_118220.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today, the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s top health economists released a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' study'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that throws a huge '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'STOP'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' sign in front of ObamaCare'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Medicaid expansion.
The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, or OHIE,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' may be the most important study ever conducted on health insurance. Oregon...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare: More Vulnerable Than Supporters Care to Admit]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/22/obamacare_more_vulnerable_than_supporters_care_to_admit_117596.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Three years ago today, the House of Representatives passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, ensuring that President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s signature domestic initiative would become law. Yet '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Obamacare'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' faced intense public opposition from the start, and its numbers have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rick Scott's ObamaCare Flip-Flop]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/21/rick_scotts_obamacare_flip-flop_117106.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Word is that Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) has decided to throw his support behind, or at least drop his opposition to, ObamaCare'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Medicaid expansion. His formal announcement, which may come tomorrow, will receive much attention. Scott was an early opponent of ObamaCare. He parlayed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare Rate Hikes Highlight Need for Repeal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cato.org/blog/obamacares-triple-digit-premium-hikes-dramatize-need-repeal?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Cato-at-liberty+%28Cato+at+Liberty%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare Still Unpopular - and Vulnerable]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-cannon-defeat-obamacare-20121130,0,2513321.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans believed a Mitt Romney win would seal Obamacare's fate. Democrats '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' or rather, the lonely two-fifths of Americans who support the president's beleaguered healthcare law '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' believed an Obama win would secure its future. Both sides were kidding themselves.Romney may have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why ObamaCare Is Still Vulnerable]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/333040/obamacare-still-vulnerable-michael-f-cannon</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare: The Way of the Dodo]]></title>
							<link>http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/michaelfcannon/2011/12/11/obamacare_they_way_of_the_dodo</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you are reading this, chances are good you have traded the luxury of newspapers for medical texts, 24-hour shifts, and chronicling every nanosecond of your day. So let's recap what's going on in the world.The U.S. government is borrowing roughly 40 cents of every dollar it spends,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ohio's Vote a Wholesale Rejection of ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/ohios-2-1-vote-against-the-individual-mandate-is-a-wholesale-rejection-of-obamacare/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Ohio voters approved by 66-34 percent an amendment to the state constitution blocking any sort of individual mandate in the state. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Cleveland Plain Dealer'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' reported'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that this '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'strike at President Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s health care plan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';'was ahead by a wide...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is ObamaCare Meant to Be Fiscally Irresponsible?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/10/24/is_obamacare_meant_to_be_fiscally_irresponsible_111792.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration has officially scrapped one of the two entitlement programs Congress created under Obamacare. The failure of the "CLASS Act" shows how the rest of that law threatens every American's private health insurance.
The idea behind CLASS was that the government would...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Repeal of ObamaCare Key to Ryan Budget Plan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/04/05/repeal_of_obamacare_key_to_ryan_plan_109453.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The federal budget is set to produce at least another $6.7 trillion of red ink over the next 10 years. President Barack Obama has abdicated leadership on the budget. First he signed a health care law that ostensibly reduces the deficit, but will actually increase it by $562 billion once...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ruling Exposes WH Spin on Health Law]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/federal-court-declares-obamacares-individual-mandate-unconstitutional/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ObamaCare has always hung by an absurdity. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' ObamaCare supporters claim that the Constitution'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s words "Congress shall have the Power"?To regulate Commerce"?among the several States"? somehow give Congress the power to compel Americans to engage in commerce. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' This ruling exposes...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How ObamaCare Threatens Political Freedom]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/obamacares-threat-to-free-speech/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Friday, I blogged about HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' letter to the health insurance lobby, in which she attempts to stifle political speech by using the new powers that ObamaCare grants her to threaten health insurance companies that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' claim ObamaCare'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s coverage mandates...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare's Unpopularity Causing Panic at WH?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/has-obamacares-unpopularity-caused-abject-panic-at-the-white-house/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Politico has obtained and published a confidential messaging-strategy presentation that essentially admits ObamaCare supporters are losing the battle for public opinion.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  The presentation was delivered to professional leftists by the left-wing Herndon Alliance, based on public opinion...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Flip-Flops on Individual Mandate (Again)]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/07/19/obama-flip-flops-on-the-individual-mandate-again/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The individual   mandate has been a tricky issue for Barack Obama, leading him to  make some impressive self-reversals.When campaigning against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic  presidential nomination, Obama came out hard against an individual  mandate to purchase health insurance,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Democrats' Health Care Overhaul May Die]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/10/14/why_the_democrats_health_care_overhaul_may_die_98712.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The problem that Democrats have faced from Day One is finally coming to a head.
The Left and the health care industry both want universal health insurance coverage.  The industry, because universal coverage means massive new government subsidies. The Left, because that's their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Massachusetts' Obama-like Reforms Increase Health Costs, Wait Times]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/09/05/obamacare_increases_costs_wait_times_98176.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you are curious about how President Barack Obama's health plan would affect your health care, look no farther than Massachusetts. In 2006, the Bay State enacted a slate of reforms that almost perfectly mirror the plan of Obama and congressional Democrats.
Those reforms reveal that the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney's Folly - Health-Care Mandates Are a Middle-Class Tax]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/25/romneys_folly_-_health-care_mandates_are_a_middle-class_tax_97616.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Amid negotiations with leading Democrats over health-care reform, Iowa senator Chuck Grassley, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, commented, "The federal government is in the process of nationalizing banks, nationalizing General Motors - I'm going to make sure we don't...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Closer Look at Obama's Health Industry Deals]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/17/a_closer_look_at_obamas_health_industry_deals__97501.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Cannon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In May, President Barack Obama announced that industry lobbyists had agreed to reduce the growth of health care spending by 1.5 percentage points each year, which would yield just enough savings to cover the uninsured. The lobbyists quickly denied that was the agreement, prompting an...]]></description>
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