Health Care
Commentary
Sen. Bill Nelson’s Florida Flim Flam
Medicare Advantage allows seniors to use private insurers to give Medicare benefits. While far from perfect, Medicare Advantage has significant advantages over the traditional, government-monopoly model of Medicare, as I have recently examined. Heres an interesting notion: If Medicare Advantage provides superior benefits to traditional Medicare benefits, then the Florida ...
John R. Graham
December 30, 2009
California
Health Reform: Would You Like A California Cash Cow or New York Pork With Your Cornhusker Kickback, Louisiana Purchase, and Florida Flim-Flam?
Californias recent budget deficits will look bush league relative to the fiscal hurricane that federal health reform will unleash on California and many other states. I made that prediction in this space on December 2, but as we approach 2010 Californians should know that things are actually worse than I ...
John R. Graham
December 30, 2009
Commentary
The Federal Regulatory Burden on American Health Care Soared Under Republican Rule
This dramatic different in length motivated me to attempt a similar measurement of the federal regulatory burden on U.S. health care by counting the pages dedicated to regulating health care in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) over the past decade. (I focused only on Medicare and Medicaid, regulation ...
John R. Graham
December 30, 2009
Commentary
State Sovereignty Resolutions: The NY Times Weighs In
According to the New York Times, legislators sponsoring these resolutions are merely carrying water for various corporate interests in the health sector. Conspiratorially, the NY Times asserts that the idea of state sovereignty over health care popped up at the Goldwater Institute in Arizona, and was then picked up as ...
John R. Graham
December 29, 2009
Health Care
Tales from The Antipodes: When The Government Runs The Hospitals
According to Dr. John R. Graham, MD, who has spent his career at Sydney Hospital, in Australias largest city, things started going down the tubes in 1984, when the federal government crowded out financing of hospitals by private payers. According to Dr. Graham,
the record of the last 25 years ...
John R. Graham
December 28, 2009
Commentary
It’s not about health care reform
The current legislation being presented in Congress is not about health care reform or health insurance reform. The only purpose is to increase the federal government’s power and control over American citizens. Many of the people supporting the legislation are doing so simply because they support the president and believe ...
Jim Sykes
December 28, 2009
Health Care
On Christmas Eve, Democrats Push Health Care Plan Through Senate
Health Care News (Heartland Institute), December 24, 2009 In the early hours of Christmas Eve on Capitol Hill, Democrats in the Senate pushed through a massive reform of health care in America on a party-line vote. Passed by a 60-39 margin, the plan includes an individual mandate to purchase health ...
Ben Domenech
December 24, 2009
Commentary
Conservative Alternatives to ObamaCare
(Sue Lowden) Rather than crippling our nation with higher debt and higher taxes to fund government-run health care, I have called for solutions that can begin to drive down the cost of health insurance, thus making it more accessible to those who do not have coverage today. First, Congress ...
Sue Lowden
December 24, 2009
Commentary
Health reform: Pluses, minuses
Opinionline: What people are saying about health debate The New York Times, in an editorial: “The health care reform bill that Senate Democratic leaders have cobbled together to win support from all 60 members, … has drawn scornful attacks from a united Republican opposition. … The bill … has some ...
Pacific Research Institute
December 24, 2009
Commentary
Now Is the Time to Fight
However, from the start of Christmas week, the important and interesting question was not whether the Senate would pass its bill (that was a foregone conclusion once Ben Nelson yielded to party pressure and waived his abortion objections in exchange for a nice helping of pork). It was whether those ...
Jeffrey H. Anderson
December 24, 2009
Sen. Bill Nelson’s Florida Flim Flam
Medicare Advantage allows seniors to use private insurers to give Medicare benefits. While far from perfect, Medicare Advantage has significant advantages over the traditional, government-monopoly model of Medicare, as I have recently examined. Heres an interesting notion: If Medicare Advantage provides superior benefits to traditional Medicare benefits, then the Florida ...
Health Reform: Would You Like A California Cash Cow or New York Pork With Your Cornhusker Kickback, Louisiana Purchase, and Florida Flim-Flam?
Californias recent budget deficits will look bush league relative to the fiscal hurricane that federal health reform will unleash on California and many other states. I made that prediction in this space on December 2, but as we approach 2010 Californians should know that things are actually worse than I ...
The Federal Regulatory Burden on American Health Care Soared Under Republican Rule
This dramatic different in length motivated me to attempt a similar measurement of the federal regulatory burden on U.S. health care by counting the pages dedicated to regulating health care in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) over the past decade. (I focused only on Medicare and Medicaid, regulation ...
State Sovereignty Resolutions: The NY Times Weighs In
According to the New York Times, legislators sponsoring these resolutions are merely carrying water for various corporate interests in the health sector. Conspiratorially, the NY Times asserts that the idea of state sovereignty over health care popped up at the Goldwater Institute in Arizona, and was then picked up as ...
Tales from The Antipodes: When The Government Runs The Hospitals
According to Dr. John R. Graham, MD, who has spent his career at Sydney Hospital, in Australias largest city, things started going down the tubes in 1984, when the federal government crowded out financing of hospitals by private payers. According to Dr. Graham,
the record of the last 25 years ...
It’s not about health care reform
The current legislation being presented in Congress is not about health care reform or health insurance reform. The only purpose is to increase the federal government’s power and control over American citizens. Many of the people supporting the legislation are doing so simply because they support the president and believe ...
On Christmas Eve, Democrats Push Health Care Plan Through Senate
Health Care News (Heartland Institute), December 24, 2009 In the early hours of Christmas Eve on Capitol Hill, Democrats in the Senate pushed through a massive reform of health care in America on a party-line vote. Passed by a 60-39 margin, the plan includes an individual mandate to purchase health ...
Conservative Alternatives to ObamaCare
(Sue Lowden) Rather than crippling our nation with higher debt and higher taxes to fund government-run health care, I have called for solutions that can begin to drive down the cost of health insurance, thus making it more accessible to those who do not have coverage today. First, Congress ...
Health reform: Pluses, minuses
Opinionline: What people are saying about health debate The New York Times, in an editorial: “The health care reform bill that Senate Democratic leaders have cobbled together to win support from all 60 members, … has drawn scornful attacks from a united Republican opposition. … The bill … has some ...
Now Is the Time to Fight
However, from the start of Christmas week, the important and interesting question was not whether the Senate would pass its bill (that was a foregone conclusion once Ben Nelson yielded to party pressure and waived his abortion objections in exchange for a nice helping of pork). It was whether those ...