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Protect Freedom of Choice and Conscience: Repeal ObamaCare!

By Ashton Ellis
Wednesday, February 22 2012

The Obama administration’s mandated contraception compromise raises serious constitutional and moral questions. It also makes one wonder why employees don’t have the freedom to choose their own health plan. The answer comes from the late economist Milton Friedman. In a 2001 report for the Hoover Institution entitled How to Cure Health Care, the Nobel Laureate identified three characteristics of the American health care industry since World War II: (1) rapid advances in medical technology; (2) huge increases in spending, and (3) rising dissatisfaction with the delivery…

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