Health Care
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$1T reform for 5%
THE health-care-reform debate is plagued by different numbers on how many Americans lack health insurance, but we actually have excellent data on the question: Ninety percent of Americans are insured, according to the Census — and even the president more or less concurs. The Census is the source for the ...
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Do We All Need to Be Like Massachusetts?
2. If it is instead a miserable failure, then why would we want to impose that failure from coast to coast? 3. If people can’t at all agree as to whether it’s a success or failure, which seems to be the case, then why not let the states that like ...
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NY Settlement on Out-of-Network Charges & Government Price Fixing
Folks who follow that previous thread will note that I am not a fan of the way insurers calculated UCRs, but that’s not because I think there’s a conflict of interest in their doing so. Rather, it’s because I think the whole network model is absurd, and an artefact of ...
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Six Years of Farce
So there we have it. Freebies for me, higher taxes for thee. You can take the guy out of Hollywood, but you can’t . . . This blog post originally appeared on National Review’s “Critical Condition.”
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Bringing Back the Lightning Rod: The ‘Public Option’ Returns
But the “public option” is another story. Once again, the Trojan horse is being offered as a “gift” to the American people — only this time with the wrinkle that each state will allegedly get to decide for itself whether or not to open its gates. Four months ago, former ...
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Centrism Defined
It will be interesting to see how the CBO scores whatever bill emerges on the Senate floor if it contains this little bag of Halloween treats. In any event, two points: First, am I wrong to think that the prospects of health-care socialism in the Senate are a good deal ...
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The Health Care Bill and Bringing Down Health-Care Costs
A goal shared by everyone in Congress is making healthcare more affordable for Americans. So why hasn’t there been more support for medical liability reform, which is a popular, cost-free measure that would unquestionably yield significant savings for patients and doctors? Former Vermont governor and national Democratic Party chairman Howard ...
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Understanding all the facts about the uninsured
President Obama is going for broke on health care. He and his Democratic allies call for controls on insurance companies, mandates and penalties on individuals and employers, new excise taxes on insurance, drug, and medical device companies, and the creation of a new government-run insurance plan. To support his sweeping ...
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The Middle-Class Health Tax Heist Of 2009
Investor’s Business Daily, October 23, 2009 The Kansas Progess, October 26, 2009 Pouring over the details of the 1,501-page health care bill that came out of Sen. Max Baucus’ Finance Committee, it’s clear that the financing is so full of smoke and mirrors that one has to wear a respirator ...
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No Free Lunch: The True Cost of ObamaCare
Far from providing “affordable” care for everyone, as President Obama has promised,1 the main health care proposals working their way through Congress would in fact come at a painful price – higher insurance premiums, more and higher taxes, fewer jobs, lower wages, a reduced standard of living and an erosion ...
$1T reform for 5%
THE health-care-reform debate is plagued by different numbers on how many Americans lack health insurance, but we actually have excellent data on the question: Ninety percent of Americans are insured, according to the Census — and even the president more or less concurs. The Census is the source for the ...
Do We All Need to Be Like Massachusetts?
2. If it is instead a miserable failure, then why would we want to impose that failure from coast to coast? 3. If people can’t at all agree as to whether it’s a success or failure, which seems to be the case, then why not let the states that like ...
NY Settlement on Out-of-Network Charges & Government Price Fixing
Folks who follow that previous thread will note that I am not a fan of the way insurers calculated UCRs, but that’s not because I think there’s a conflict of interest in their doing so. Rather, it’s because I think the whole network model is absurd, and an artefact of ...
Six Years of Farce
So there we have it. Freebies for me, higher taxes for thee. You can take the guy out of Hollywood, but you can’t . . . This blog post originally appeared on National Review’s “Critical Condition.”
Bringing Back the Lightning Rod: The ‘Public Option’ Returns
But the “public option” is another story. Once again, the Trojan horse is being offered as a “gift” to the American people — only this time with the wrinkle that each state will allegedly get to decide for itself whether or not to open its gates. Four months ago, former ...
Centrism Defined
It will be interesting to see how the CBO scores whatever bill emerges on the Senate floor if it contains this little bag of Halloween treats. In any event, two points: First, am I wrong to think that the prospects of health-care socialism in the Senate are a good deal ...
The Health Care Bill and Bringing Down Health-Care Costs
A goal shared by everyone in Congress is making healthcare more affordable for Americans. So why hasn’t there been more support for medical liability reform, which is a popular, cost-free measure that would unquestionably yield significant savings for patients and doctors? Former Vermont governor and national Democratic Party chairman Howard ...
Understanding all the facts about the uninsured
President Obama is going for broke on health care. He and his Democratic allies call for controls on insurance companies, mandates and penalties on individuals and employers, new excise taxes on insurance, drug, and medical device companies, and the creation of a new government-run insurance plan. To support his sweeping ...
The Middle-Class Health Tax Heist Of 2009
Investor’s Business Daily, October 23, 2009 The Kansas Progess, October 26, 2009 Pouring over the details of the 1,501-page health care bill that came out of Sen. Max Baucus’ Finance Committee, it’s clear that the financing is so full of smoke and mirrors that one has to wear a respirator ...
No Free Lunch: The True Cost of ObamaCare
Far from providing “affordable” care for everyone, as President Obama has promised,1 the main health care proposals working their way through Congress would in fact come at a painful price – higher insurance premiums, more and higher taxes, fewer jobs, lower wages, a reduced standard of living and an erosion ...
