Hostile Takeover: Resisting Centralized Government's Stranglehold on America (49 page)

71.
“What It Costs to Go to College,” College Board. http://www.collegeboard.com/student/pay/add-it-up/4494.html.

72.
Ibid.

73.
Lindsey Burke, “Pell Grant Increase Would Not Solve the College Cost Problem,” Heritage Foundation, Nov. 16, 2010. http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/11/pell-grant-increase-would-not-solve-the-college-cost-problem.

74.
“Trends in College Pricing. College Board.” http://trends.collegeboard.org/downloads/College_Pricing_2011.pdf.

75.
Ibid.

76.
Dick Armey, “Texas Needs Higher Education Reform,”
Houston Chronicle
, Apr. 18, 2011.

77.
Christopher Shea, “The End of Tenure?,”
New York Times
, Sept. 3, 2010.

78.
Jay P. Greene, “Administrative Bloat at American Universities: The Real Reason for High Costs in Higher Education,” Goldwater Institute, Aug. 17, 2010. http://goldwaterinstitute.org/article/administrative-bloat-american-universities-real-reason-high-costs-higher-education.

79.
Tamar Lewin, “College Graduates’ Debt Burden Grew, Yet Again, in 2010,”
New York Times
, Nov. 2, 2011.

80.
Catherine Lampell, “Many with New College Degree Find the Job Market Humbling,”
New York Times
, May 18, 2011.

81.
“Unfulfilled Expectations: Recent College Graduates Struggle in a Troubled Economy,” Rutgers University. http://www.heldrich.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/content/Work_Trends_May_2011.pdf.

82.
Lindsey Burke, “Pell Grant Increase Would Not Solve the College Cost Problem,”
op. cit.

83.
Gary Wolfram, “Making College More Expensive: The Unintended Consequences of Federal Tuition Aid,”
Cato Institute Policy Analysis, no. 531
, Jan. 25, 2005. http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3344.

84.
Jonathan Moore, “No Strings Attached,” Hoover Institution, May 1, 1998. http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/6669.

85.
“Grove City College Cost.” http://www.gcc.edu/current_cost.php.

86.
“Tuition Expected To Jump Next Semester,” Hillsdale College, Mar. 10, 2011. http://www.hillsdalecollegian.com/tuition-expected-to-jump-next-semester-1.2102376#.TvCU3TUeO8A.

87.
Tamar Lewin, “College Graduates’ Debt Burden Grew, Yet Again, in 2010,”
op. cit.

88.
Justin Pope, “Analysis: Is Student Loan, Education Bubble Next?,” MSNBC, Nov. 6, 2011. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45183544/ns/us_news-life/t/analysis-student-loan-education-bubble-next/#.TvCF5DUeO8A.

89.
“Kelli Space, $200,000 in Debt, Starts Site to Solicit Donations,”
Huffington Post
, Nov. 22, 2010. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/22/kelli-space-two-hundred-thousand-in-debt_n_787074.html.

90.
“Peter Schiff Exposes College Scam—Interviews Kelli Space” (1 of 2). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llrmq8q3E24&feature=player_embedded#!.

91.
Richard Vedder, “Why Did 17 million Students Go to College?”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
, Oct. 20, 2010.

92.
Ibid.

93.
Linsey Davis, “Facebook and PayPal’s Peter Thiel Pays College Students to Drop Out,” ABC News, May 26, 2011. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/facebook-paypals-peter-thiel-pays-college-students-drop/story?id=13693632#.TvC4jTUeO8A.

94.
Cady Lang, “Chained Up,”
360 Magazine,
Dec. 13, 2011. http://360magazine.org/2011/12/chained-up/.

95.
Michael Barone, “Will College Bubble Burst from Public Subsidies?,”
Washington Examiner.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/07/will-college-bubble-burst-public-subisidies.

96.
Justin Pope, “Analysis: Is Student Loan, Education Bubble Next?,”
op. cit.

97.
“One in Four State Lawmakers Lack Bachelor’s Degree,” FoxNews.com, June 16, 2011, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/16/one-in-four-state-lawmakers-have-no-college-degree/.

Chapter 11: Losing Patients

  1.
Javier Panzar, “Transcript: Robert Reich’s Speech at Occupy Cal,”
Daily Californian
, Nov. 18, 2011. http://www.dailycal.org/2011/11/18/transcript-robert-reichs-speech-at/.

  2.
Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President in Health Insurance Reform Town Hall,” White House Press Office, Aug. 11, 2009. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Town-Hall-on-Health-Insurance-Reform-in-Portsmouth-New-Hampshire\.

  3.
James Taranto, “We’re Going to Let You Die,”
Wall Street Journal
, Oct. 14, 2009.

  4.
United Kingdom Office for National Statistics. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase.

  5.
Joint Economic Committee, Republican staff, “The UK De-Bureaucratizes Health Care: We Should Too,” Sept. 22, 2010, p. 2. http://jec.senate.gov/republicans//files/22/79/91/f227991/public/?a=Files.Serve&File_id=9bf72ff0-f2ad-4486-9dd7-e8305d5d61a6.

  6.
Milton Friedman, “Gammon’s Law Points to Health-Care Solution,”
Wall Street Journal,
Nov. 12, 1991.

  7.
UK National Health Service, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), “Measuring Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness: the QALY.” http://www.nice.org.uk/newsroom/features/measuringeffectivenessandcosteffectivenesstheqaly.jsp (accessed Aug. 5, 2010). See also Randeep Ramesh, “This UK Patient Avoided the NHS List and Flew to India for a Heart Bypass. Is Health Tourism the Future?”
Guardian,
Feb. 1, 2005. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/feb/01/health.india.

  8.
Helen Briggs, “Critics Condemn Bowel Cancer Drug Rejection,”
BBC News Health,
Aug. 24, 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11060968.

  9.
Nadeem Esmail, “The Private Cost of Public Queues,” Fraser Institute, Mar./Apr. 2011. Accessed Jan. 17, 2012. http://www.fraserinstitute.org/uploadedFiles/fraser-ca/Content/research-news/research/articles/private-cost-of-public-queues-march2011.pdf.

10.
Tanya Talaga, “Woman Dies In ER As AG Finds Little Movement,” thestar.com, Dec. 6, 2010. Accessed Jan. 19, 2012. http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/902581—woman-dies-waiting-in-er-as-ag-finds-little-movement.

11.
“Palin Doubles Down On ‘Death Panels’,”
Politico,
Aug. 13, 2009, http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090813/pl_politico/26078.

12.
David Gratzer, “The Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care,”
City Journal
, Summer 2007.

13.
§§ 6301 and 10602 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, P.L. 111-148, as amended by P.L. 111-152. http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/399/ppaca-consolidated.pdf.

14.
§§ 3403 and 10320 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, P.L. 111-148, as amended by P.L. 111-152. http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/399/ppaca-consolidated.pdf.

15.
Joint Economic Committee, Republican staff, “Rationer-in-Chief: The ‘Berwick’ Confirmation Hearing That Wasn’t,” July 19, 2010. http://jec.senate.gov/republicans//files/22/79/91/f227991/public/index.cfm?p=CommitteeNews&ContentRecord_id=16af1da1-20c7-46ed-8282-edd399a03f92.

16.
“Rethinking Comparative Effectiveness Research,” interview with Dr. Donald Berwick, Biotechnology Health Care, June 2009. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2799075/pdf/bth06_2p035.pdf. This and many other, similar, quotations are among the reasons why even the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate refused to confirm Dr. Berwick as Medicare chief, allowing his recess appointment to expire at the end of 2011.

17.
National Health Expenditure data, 2009. Accessed Jan. 18, 2012. https://www.cms.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/downloads/tables.pdf.

18.
Nancy Pelosi, Mar. 10, 2009. Accessed Jan. 17, 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV-05TLiiLU.

19.
Senate Republican Policy Committee, “159 Ways the Senate Bill Is a Government Takeover of Health Care,”
gop.gov
, Feb. 25, 2010. Accessed Jan. 17, 2012. http://www.gop.gov/blog/10/02/25/159-ways-the-senate-bill.

20.
Ibid.

21.
Center for Health Transformation, Wall Chart: “1,968 New and Expanded Secretarial Powers Under the Health Reform Law.” Accessed Jan. 16, 2012. http://www.healthtransformation.net/galleries/wallcharts/HHS_V7%20(Final).pdf.

22.
House Ways & Means Committee Republicans, “The Wrong Prescription: Democrats’ Health Overhaul Dangerously Expands IRS Authority,” 2010-03-18. http://republicans.waysandmeans.house.gov/UploadedFiles/IRS_Power_Report.pdf.

23.
Senate Finance Committee Republican tabulation of Joint Committee on Taxation estimates.

24.
Curtis W. Copeland, “New Entities Created Pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” Congressional Research Service, July 8, 2010. http://www.aamc.org/reform/summary/crsentities.pdf.

25.
Estimate by Senate Budget Committee, Republican staff, 2010.

26.
U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, Republicans, press release, “Final List of Health Care Law Waivers Now Available; Obama Administration Shields 4 million Americans From Its Own Law,” Jan. 6, 2012. Accessed Jan. 19, 2012. http://energycommerce.house.gov/news/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=9186. (The waivers expire in 2014, when Obamacare takes effect.)

27.
Paul Connor, “Labor unions primary recipients of Obamacare waivers,” Jan. 6, 2012. Accessed Jan. 19, 2012. http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/06/labor-unions-primary-recipients-of-obamacare-waivers/.

28.
Kaiser Family Foundation, Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, Mar. 2011. Accessed Mar. 7, 2012. http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/upload/8166-f.pdf. See also Gallup, “Americans Divided on Repeal of 2010 Health Care Law,” Feb. 27, 2012. Accessed Mar. 7, 2012. http://www.gallup.com/poll/152969/Americans-Divided-Repeal-2010-Healthcare-Law.aspx.

29.
The PJ Tatler, “Democrat Rep. Hochul: ‘We’re not looking to the Constitution’ on the HHS Mandate,” Feb. 27, 2012. http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/02/27/democrat-rep-hochul-were-not-looking-to-the-constitution-on-the-hhs-mandate/.

30.
Shareef Mahdavi, “How to Compete Without Cutting Price [of LASIK] Eye Surgery,” Mar. 2009. Accessed Mar. 7,2012. https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sm2strategic.com%2Ffiles%2F2009%2520Mar%2520-%2520How%2520to%2520Compete%2520Without%2520Cutting%2520Price.RefractiveEyecare.pdf.

31.
“Cost of LASIK Eye Surgery,”
LasikSecrets.com
. Accessed Dec. 11, 2011. http://lasik-secrets.com/LASIK-cost.html (published Mar. 15, 2011).

32.
John Mackey, “The Whole Foods Alternative to Obamacare: Eight Things We Can Do to Improve Health Care Without Adding to the Deficit,”
Wall Street Journal
, Aug. 12, 2009.

33.
John Mackey, “Defending the Morality of Capitalism,” Whole Foods Market Blog, June 24, 2011. http://www2.wholefoodsmarket.com/blogs/jmackey/category/conscious-capitalism/.

34.
John Mackey, “To Increase Jobs, Increase Economic Freedom,”
Wall Street Journal
, Nov. 16, 2011. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204358004577032442153911170.html.

35.
Nick Paumgarten, “Food Fighter: Does Whole Foods CEO know what’s best for you?,”
New Yorker
, Jan. 4, 2010. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/04/100104fa_fact_paumgarten.

36.
John Mackey, “The Whole Foods Alternative to Obamacare,”
op. cit.

37.
Ibid.

38.
CNN presidential debate, Sept. 12, 2011. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/12/tea-party-debate-health-care_n_959354.html.

39.
Dick Armey,
The Freedom Revolution: The New Republican House Majority Leader Tells Why Big Government Failed, Why Freedom Works, and How We Will Rebuild America
(Washington, DC: Regnery Press, 1994), p. 213.

40.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. National Health Expenditure data, 2009. https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.gov%2FNationalHealthExpendData%2Fdownloads%2Fhighlights.pdf.

41.
Ibid.