While President Obama extends his “change” agenda to health care, John Locke Foundation Vice President for Research and Resident Scholar Roy Cordato explained in a recent Carolina Beat column that the Obama administration’s proposals would preserve the status quo of excessive government involvement in the health sector. Cape Fear Business News picked up that column within the past week. (The latest edition of the Independent Review also includes Cordato’s review of the book Climate Change Policies: Challenging the Activists.) Joseph Coletti hit the road this week for health-care presentations to Brunswick County’s “We the People” group Wednesday and the Raleigh Civitan Club Thursday. Meanwhile, Policy Analyst and Research Editor Jon Sanders attracted media attention for his participation in the latest leg of Americans for Prosperity’s “Hands Off My Health Care” bus tour. Articles in the Goldsboro News-Argus, Monroe Enquirer-Journal, and Smithfield Herald all mentioned Sanders. (The Enquirer-Journal noted: Policy analyst Jon Sanders looked at health care from a financial standpoint. He said the national deficit was already ugly and said if a government-run health-care system was added, it would become “Rosie O’Donnell ugly.” Sanders suggested some ways to reform health care, like allowing people to buy insurance across state lines, all of which were free-market oriented.) In other news, John Hood contributed to the health-care debate with posts to National Review Online’s “Critical Condition” blog (along with his contributions to the “Planet Gore” blog targeting misguided climate policies).