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Finally, let's wrap up with a couple of quickies.

The GAO issued a statement that it "could not render an opinion on the consolidated financial statements of the federal government (other than the Statement of Social Insurance) because of widespread material internal control weaknesses and other limitations." Oh, boy. Let's put 'em in charge of health care, eh?

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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts and the five commercial members of the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans went before a judge on April 8 in Massachusetts Superior Court asking for a preliminary injunction against Insurance Commissioner Joseph G. Murphy's decision to reject 235 of 274 premium hikes proposed by the insurers. The ruling could leave insurers with hundreds of millions in losses this year.

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Chalk one up for transparency! Even though they were not legally required to provide the information until 2013, Medtronic disclosed the amount of royalties and consulting fees paid to doctors in the first quarter of 2010. Lack of transparency on all levels of health care has been a massive barrier. Now, only if doctors and hospitals would do the same for their prices on a more widespread scale

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If I can find embeddable video later I will post it, but don't miss this confrontation in Winston-Salem with the North Carolina Democrat by a mother who "lives in the hospital" with her two children. She knows way more about Obamacare than Hagan, who just comes off as ignorant. Kudos to the NBC affiliate WXII for capturing and posting the story. A taste:

"I don't want free health care. Because I will sell…

By SCOTT GOTTLIEB

President Obama guaranteed Americans that after health reform became law they could keep their insurance plans and their doctors. It's clear that this promise cannot be kept. Insurers and physicians are already reshaping their businesses as a result of Mr. Obama's plan.

The health-reform law caps how much insurers…

This is a tough blog post for me, but in the interests of civil dialogue and making sure we libertarians and conservatives police our own, I have to do it.

Earlier today I sent a broadcast email announcing a Webinar tomorrow being hosted by Heartland Policy Advisor Dave Racer. As I venture to say most of us in this community do, Dave believes the federal health care overhaul legislation is a disaster.

The subject line of my email was “Hope You Can Attend This Webinar: Health…

Speaking of one standard for the Feds and another for everybody else, Ron Bachman writes up the results of his trip to Germany where he dug deep into the German system. He writes, “We listened to federal and state officials, doctors, hospital executives, members of the Bundestag, a health journalist, and German policy experts. They told us that the German system is the fourth most expensive system in the world. Their costs are rising rapidly and are unsustainable.” He says he…

Okay, so the states get hosed, and the insurers get hosed, but how's 'bout the business community in general? Surely they must be doing better now that health care has been "reformed." Well, not so much.

We've already discussed how larger unionized companies had to account for their new liabilities under FAS 106. Henry Waxman threatened to bring them all before his committee for their temerity in complying with SEC requirements. They were just trying to undermine all…

The presentation concedes that groups…