Health Care
Commentary
The Medicare tsunami
In a recent news conference, President Obama said: “The biggest driving force behind our federal deficit is the skyrocketing cost of Medicare and Medicaid. So let me be clear: If we do not control these costs, we will not be able to control our deficits.” He is absolutely right. The ...
Commentary
Another Attack On Big Drugmakers
Health Care: Powerful California Rep. Henry Waxman wants to save Medicare billions by going after drug industry “windfalls.” As usual, his “savings” will very quickly turn into higher costs for you-know-who. So many industries, so little time — that might be the Democrats’ motto. By demonizing the drugmakers, Waxman and ...
Health Care
The NY Times Reports: The People Are Irrational
Now, I read the New York Times only infrequently; but someone, anyone, please tell me that this is not the best that it has to offer. Whom does the reporter think he’s kidding? What possible course will the federal bureaucracy pursue when limited resources meet metastasizing demands? Obviously, one early ...
Commentary
Why Does the Government Want to Take Over Health Care? Big Labor
The federal take-over of Americans’ access to medical services is proving a tough mission, as the town halls and other signs of popular resistance demonstrate. Medicare, the territory first occupied almost half a century ago, is proving a major obstacle. Seniors are rightly worried that efforts to cut costs from ...
Commentary
O’s Rx: Break It
The New York Post, August 25, 2009 PRESIDENT Obama and his allies in Congress seem to have decided that the best way to fix the private health-insurance market is to break it completely. Polls have prompted them to shift from health-care reform to “health-insurance reform.” Combine this with a government-funded, ...
Commentary
Health care reform, yes. Big government, no.
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Government insurance for health care — the public option — is an inappropriate cure that the American body politic is rejecting. Canadians spend 10 percent of annual GDP on health care, while Americans spend 16 percent. However, Canadians experience long waiting lists for diagnosis and treatment, ...
Health Care
Sally C. Pipes on “The Mark Levin Show” with host Tom Marr
Sally C. Pipes was on WCBM 680 Talk Radio – The Mark Levin Show with host Tom Marr. Sally talked about health care reform proposals being discussed and her book, The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide.
Commentary
Mickey Kaus and Realism
Kaus — normally a sensible guy — seems not to understand that needs, whether medical or other, are infinite, while resources remain limited, always and everywhere. Even in principle, therefore, “universal coverage” must evolve, quickly, into something far less compassionate; and in any event, tax increases, even on the middle ...
California
California Health Insurance Rescissions: Doctors Dissatisfied
(My last post on a long trail of posts about the history of the California rescissions noted that Insurance Commissioner Poizner seems to have learned that some people actually do lie on their health-insurance applications.) Organized medicine’s beef with the settlement is that it does not guarantee that doctors be ...
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‘Bonding’ or ‘Fining’ the Uninsured Is a Tax Hike
This is, to some degree, a distraction from the debate over health reform, because uncompensated care is not a significant driver of health spending. It may account for one percent of spending, or 3 percent if you want to take the most extreme, outlying, estimate that might be credible if ...
The Medicare tsunami
In a recent news conference, President Obama said: “The biggest driving force behind our federal deficit is the skyrocketing cost of Medicare and Medicaid. So let me be clear: If we do not control these costs, we will not be able to control our deficits.” He is absolutely right. The ...
Another Attack On Big Drugmakers
Health Care: Powerful California Rep. Henry Waxman wants to save Medicare billions by going after drug industry “windfalls.” As usual, his “savings” will very quickly turn into higher costs for you-know-who. So many industries, so little time — that might be the Democrats’ motto. By demonizing the drugmakers, Waxman and ...
The NY Times Reports: The People Are Irrational
Now, I read the New York Times only infrequently; but someone, anyone, please tell me that this is not the best that it has to offer. Whom does the reporter think he’s kidding? What possible course will the federal bureaucracy pursue when limited resources meet metastasizing demands? Obviously, one early ...
Why Does the Government Want to Take Over Health Care? Big Labor
The federal take-over of Americans’ access to medical services is proving a tough mission, as the town halls and other signs of popular resistance demonstrate. Medicare, the territory first occupied almost half a century ago, is proving a major obstacle. Seniors are rightly worried that efforts to cut costs from ...
O’s Rx: Break It
The New York Post, August 25, 2009 PRESIDENT Obama and his allies in Congress seem to have decided that the best way to fix the private health-insurance market is to break it completely. Polls have prompted them to shift from health-care reform to “health-insurance reform.” Combine this with a government-funded, ...
Health care reform, yes. Big government, no.
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Government insurance for health care — the public option — is an inappropriate cure that the American body politic is rejecting. Canadians spend 10 percent of annual GDP on health care, while Americans spend 16 percent. However, Canadians experience long waiting lists for diagnosis and treatment, ...
Sally C. Pipes on “The Mark Levin Show” with host Tom Marr
Sally C. Pipes was on WCBM 680 Talk Radio – The Mark Levin Show with host Tom Marr. Sally talked about health care reform proposals being discussed and her book, The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide.
Mickey Kaus and Realism
Kaus — normally a sensible guy — seems not to understand that needs, whether medical or other, are infinite, while resources remain limited, always and everywhere. Even in principle, therefore, “universal coverage” must evolve, quickly, into something far less compassionate; and in any event, tax increases, even on the middle ...
California Health Insurance Rescissions: Doctors Dissatisfied
(My last post on a long trail of posts about the history of the California rescissions noted that Insurance Commissioner Poizner seems to have learned that some people actually do lie on their health-insurance applications.) Organized medicine’s beef with the settlement is that it does not guarantee that doctors be ...
‘Bonding’ or ‘Fining’ the Uninsured Is a Tax Hike
This is, to some degree, a distraction from the debate over health reform, because uncompensated care is not a significant driver of health spending. It may account for one percent of spending, or 3 percent if you want to take the most extreme, outlying, estimate that might be credible if ...
