Health Care
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Consumer-Driven Health Care’s Crazy Side
For the second time, a health-care provider is suing a patient for posting a negative review on Yelp, a website that invites people to submit reviews of restaurants, bars, clothing boutiques, and pretty much whatever else strikes their fancy. Here in San Francisco we take all things Internet-related very seriously, ...
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Critical Error: Tom Daschle’s Blurred Health Care Vision
Tom Daschle’s new book, Critical: What Can We Do About the Health-Care Crisis, confirms that advocates for a complete government takeover of American health care have learned an important lesson: Don’t try it in one big bite. Here Daschle and co-author Jeanne Lambrew have direct experience. Mr. Daschle was a ...
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Graham on Lars Larson Discussing Obama Health Reform
In a recent radio interview with Lars Larson on health care, I note that we came very close during the Bush administration (or, for those who prefer, the “Bush regime”) to returning health care dollars to American families to spend on health care of their choice, instead of health care ...
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Obama-Daschle “reform” will cripple American health care
Obama-Daschle “reform” will cripple American health care President-elect Barack Obama has promised sweeping changes during his first few months in office. Perhaps the most far-reaching – and troubling – of his proposals is his plan for healthcare reform. Obama has tapped former Sen. Tom Daschle to serve as both the ...
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Health-Care Rationing is Inevitable? Letters in the Wall Street Journal
Because my annual performance review is coming up, I thought I’d praise an op-ed that Sally Pipes (my CEO) wrote in the Wall Street Journal on December 30. But while I come to praise Ms. Pipes, others come to bury her: specifically, four letters that the WSJ published in response ...
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Lars Larson Show interview with John R. Graham
John R. Graham, Director of Health Care Studies, discusses the Obama administration’s health care policy under former Senator Thomas A. Daschle during this interview on the Lars Larson Show.
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An Emergency Review
This is an emergency book review. Before you do anything else, make a note to read “The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care” by Sally C. Pipes. It might literally save your life, by checking the political stampede toward a government-controlled medical profession– usually presented politically as “universal health ...
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Consumer-Directed Health Care in Cuba (for Americans)
It’s hard to believe it’s been a year and a quarter since PRI hosted an event to discuss Michael Moore’s SiCKO, his “mockumentary” about the American health-care “system”. I’d kind of forgotten about the whole episode, but now that Mr. Moore’s team is going to be running the country, I ...
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Serious facts, please
. Louis Post-Dispatch (Saint Louis, MO), January 6, 2009 Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen's Guide The editorial “The 30 percent solution” (Dec. 30) claimed that “Americans spent more than $2.5 trillion on health care last year” while “46 million of us [went] without any health insurance. ...
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Foundations take active role on health policy
Los Angeles Times, January 5, 2009 Nonprofits have dropped their usual detachment to crusade for healthcare reform in California, opening Sacramento offices staffed by former aides to lawmakers. They have to be careful about IRS rules. Reporting from Sacramento — Frustrated that years of financing studies and demonstration projects have ...
Consumer-Driven Health Care’s Crazy Side
For the second time, a health-care provider is suing a patient for posting a negative review on Yelp, a website that invites people to submit reviews of restaurants, bars, clothing boutiques, and pretty much whatever else strikes their fancy. Here in San Francisco we take all things Internet-related very seriously, ...
Critical Error: Tom Daschle’s Blurred Health Care Vision
Tom Daschle’s new book, Critical: What Can We Do About the Health-Care Crisis, confirms that advocates for a complete government takeover of American health care have learned an important lesson: Don’t try it in one big bite. Here Daschle and co-author Jeanne Lambrew have direct experience. Mr. Daschle was a ...
Graham on Lars Larson Discussing Obama Health Reform
In a recent radio interview with Lars Larson on health care, I note that we came very close during the Bush administration (or, for those who prefer, the “Bush regime”) to returning health care dollars to American families to spend on health care of their choice, instead of health care ...
Obama-Daschle “reform” will cripple American health care
Obama-Daschle “reform” will cripple American health care President-elect Barack Obama has promised sweeping changes during his first few months in office. Perhaps the most far-reaching – and troubling – of his proposals is his plan for healthcare reform. Obama has tapped former Sen. Tom Daschle to serve as both the ...
Health-Care Rationing is Inevitable? Letters in the Wall Street Journal
Because my annual performance review is coming up, I thought I’d praise an op-ed that Sally Pipes (my CEO) wrote in the Wall Street Journal on December 30. But while I come to praise Ms. Pipes, others come to bury her: specifically, four letters that the WSJ published in response ...
Lars Larson Show interview with John R. Graham
John R. Graham, Director of Health Care Studies, discusses the Obama administration’s health care policy under former Senator Thomas A. Daschle during this interview on the Lars Larson Show.
An Emergency Review
This is an emergency book review. Before you do anything else, make a note to read “The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care” by Sally C. Pipes. It might literally save your life, by checking the political stampede toward a government-controlled medical profession– usually presented politically as “universal health ...
Consumer-Directed Health Care in Cuba (for Americans)
It’s hard to believe it’s been a year and a quarter since PRI hosted an event to discuss Michael Moore’s SiCKO, his “mockumentary” about the American health-care “system”. I’d kind of forgotten about the whole episode, but now that Mr. Moore’s team is going to be running the country, I ...
Serious facts, please
. Louis Post-Dispatch (Saint Louis, MO), January 6, 2009 Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen's Guide The editorial “The 30 percent solution” (Dec. 30) claimed that “Americans spent more than $2.5 trillion on health care last year” while “46 million of us [went] without any health insurance. ...
Foundations take active role on health policy
Los Angeles Times, January 5, 2009 Nonprofits have dropped their usual detachment to crusade for healthcare reform in California, opening Sacramento offices staffed by former aides to lawmakers. They have to be careful about IRS rules. Reporting from Sacramento — Frustrated that years of financing studies and demonstration projects have ...
