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Heritage Goes After North Korea, Universal Health Care & the UN All at Once

Brett D. Schaefer, the Jay Kingham Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs at Heritage Foundation's Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, writes in a post on the Heritage blog that the UN is wrongfully defending the North Korean health care system--mostly because it's a so-called universal health care system that doesn't work. 

Far from working, in fact, as far as Schaefer is concerned. Armed with some gruesome details from an Amnesty International report, Schaefer writes:

North Korea came under criticism from Amnesty International last week for the dismal state of the country’s health care system. While North Korea (the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea or DPRK) has a well-earned reputation for disregarding the interests of its people – malnutrition is common and many of the country’s people face serious health problems arising from disease and poverty – the government has faced increasing economic difficulties that have undermined the state run (virtually everything in North Korea is state run) health care system to an appalling degree.

Heritage: "Road to Repeal is Well Under Way"

Health care isn't a done deal according to Conn Carroll, who writes over at the Heritage Foundation's Foundry blog that...

...the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirmed that the federal government will have to spend an additional $115 billion implementing the law, bringing the total estimated cost to over $1 trillion.

The result, according to Carroll, is that it will only fuel the repeal that is already well on its way.

Since the left can’t even figure out what is in the bill they are trying to defend, the latest Rasmussen Reports shows that 63% of likely voters now believe it will increase the federal deficit, and 56% now favor repeal. Not waiting for this November’s elections to change the leadership in Congress, states are leading the way on the road to repeal. According to The Washington Post 33 states have mounted legal and legislative challenges to the new law.