Romney vs Santorum on health care

The latest GOP debate has an interesting exchange between Romney and Santorum on health care reform. This link goes to Kaiser Health News that provides you with both the transcript and the video.

Health-care professionals are finally waking up to their mistake in supporting Democrats. It takes some people a while to catch on.

Byron York (via Instapundit) says voters are not buying Democrats' rosy picture of health-care reform.

If you have your own employee health care plan, you may have to forget it. 

See also here. 

Jason Tolbert: Blanche Lincoln said today she did not cast the deciding vote on health care. Today Blanche Lincoln said she did cast the deciding vote for health care in May. Which is it, the flip or the flop?

AP: ObamaCare is even more unpopular now than when it became law.

Byron York: What could go wrong with ObamaCare? Look at the Post Office.

IRS Commissioner: Buy health insurance or lose your tax refund. Change you can believe in.

Rasmussen: 53 percent trust Republicans more than Democrats on health care.

Miami Herald: Health care law is really unpopular in Florida.

Jason Tolbert on health care as an issue in Arkansas politics. "To my knowledge, no Arkansas Democrat [who is a congressional candidate] has called for repealing the law while almost every Republican has done so."

Politics Daily: Health care reform: what happens year by year, 2010-2019. But the news is not all good. See Ann Althouse.

I didn't know that was in there!

On the fallacy of not reading the health-care bill and unintended consequences.

Now we will learn what is really in the health care bill: Senior staff member who wrote the bill exempted themselves from it.

In health care, the question is: what now? We all want to know.

CATO on the health reform bill. The criticism is pouring in and, I predict, will continue.

The wait is over. Arkansas' Congressional delegation voted 3 nos and 1 yes. The yes vote was of course Snyder, with Berry, Boozman, and Ross voting no. Lincoln and Pryor have already voted for the Senate version.

I wish I thought the whole struggle was over instead of just starting. Power Line's reaction is here. They advise: exercise and watch your diet, don't get sick, and avoid the death panels.

Robert Samuelson: "If not now, when? If not us, who?" Obama asks. The answer is: It's not now, and it's not "us." Pass or not, Obama's proposal is the illusion of "reform," not the real thing.

Patrick Caddell and Douglas Schoen, quoting Barbara Tuchman, call health-care reform "the March of Folly."

Special Report with Bret Baier: The panel evaluates the health-care push. Despite the optimism among Democrats, the chance of passage is fading.