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In the name of patient protection, Congress is poised to make theproblems in America's current health care system even worse. 

Exploring solutions to America's health insurance problem.

At tonight's press conference, someone should ask President Obama why he's endorsing, and not threatening to veto, the 1,018-page House health-care reform bill now being rushed to passage: It breaks nearly all his core promises about health-care reform.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is the most consequential social legislation of our generation. Because this law directly affects literally every American citizen through the unprecedented imposition of individual and employer mandates and regulates in a highly prescriptive fashion the financing and delivery of health care in the United States, it will fundamentally alter the relationship between individual Americans and the federal government. It will also alter the relationship between the national government and the governments of the several states. Unless it is repe...

Instead of building on bureaucratic structures or relying onoutmoded welfare programs, Congress can promote personal choice inhealth plans and benefits by transferring decisionmaking power inthe health care system to individuals and families.