Baucus's Bad Bill

"Sen. Baucus would require every American to buy health insurance, but not just any insurance. A panel of government bureaucrats, the Independent Health Coverage Council, would get to define what benefits your insurance should have. You may be perfectly satisfied with the insurance you have today, but that wouldn’t matter. If the bureaucrats didn’t think it was good enough, you would have to give up your current policy, and buy the one they wanted—even if it was more expensive or contained benefits you would never use and didn’t want."
More ... (Source: CATO Institute)

Related:

How to Fix America's Health Insurance Crisis (Source: Reason Foundation)
The Obesity Epidemic and the Rise and Fall of Public Health (Source: Manhattan Institute)
Why I Choose Low-Quality Healthcare (Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute)
What Do We Really Know About the Uninsured? (Source: The Wall Street Journal)
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The Dollar and Other Key Currencies
"The foreign exchange value of the dollar has to substantially decline to make a serious dent in the record US current account deficit of nearly $800 billion, almost 7 percent of US GDP."
More ... (Source: Peterson Institute for International Economics)

Related:

A Free-Market Monetary System (Source: LewRockwell)
Did the Fed, or Asian Savings, Cause the Housing Bubble? (Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute)
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Oppose Tax Increases in the "Gang of 20" Energy Bill
"The so-called "Gang of 20" Senate energy compromise will raise taxes on domestic energy production, and will cost America more than 600,000 jobs. That's not all, because the bill raises corporate income taxes, it is a violation of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge."
More ... (Source: Americans For Tax Reform)