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Does Barack Obama Support Socialized Medicine?10/8/08 The Cato Institute has released a new Issue Brief analyzing whether Barack Obama’s health care plan moves us to socialized medicine, written by Michael F.Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies at Cato Institute. Cato Institute Briefing Paper #108 “Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (IL) has proposed an ambitious plan to restructure America’s health care sector. Rather than engage in a detailed critique of Obama’s health care plan, many critics prefer to label it ‘socialized medicine.’ “Is that a fair description of the Obama plan and similar plans? Over the past year, prominent media outlets and respectable think tanks have investigated that question and come to a unanimous answer: no. “Reasonable people can disagree over whether Obama’s health plan would be good or bad. But to suggest that it is not a step toward socialized medicine is absurd….” |