Health care round up

A few items that caught my eye this week:

• Grace-Marie Turner on ObamaCare's new tax burdens.

• Jim Geraghty on back alley dentistry.

• The Wall Street Journal warns of a doctor shortage. Shortages usually occur when the government gets involved in an area best left to the market.

• Chris Moody explains why ObamaCare is RomneyCare 2.0. And Romney won a recent GOP straw poll? Yikes.

• Remember how ObamaCare was supposed to rise in popularity after it was enacted? Not so much.

• Greg Mankiw says health care reform is another means of spreading the wealth around.

• Michael Tanner is pretty disappointed in the media's performance on the health care debate. Of course, this critique assumes they see their primary jobs as reporting instead of cheer-leading.