Single-Payer
Commentary
The Many Failures of Single Payer
Vermonts incumbent governor, Peter Shumlin, wants his state to become the first to launch a government takeover of its health-care system. But the results of last months election could give him pause. He was unable to secure a majority of votes this November after winning 58 percent of the ...
Commentary
Seven steps to replace Obamacare with something that works
Excerpted from “The Cure for Obamacare” (Encounter Broadsides, summer 2013) President Obama took a shot at opponents of his health care reform law recently, saying, “there’s not even a pretense now that they’re going to replace it with something better.” Au contraire. Ideas for “something better” abound but the ...
Commentary
Is Obamacare paving the way for single-payer system?
Suffering from illness or injury? Good thing youre not British. U.K. police recently investigated the deaths of 300 patients at one hospital. The suspected cause? Neglect. No wonder average waiting times for accident and emergency patients have hit a nine-year high. That could never happen in America, right? On ...
Commentary
Delay, Repeal, Replace
Watching Congress take the final steps to pass Obamacare in March 2010 was a bitterly disappointing moment for the laws opponents. They didnt have to be told that what was being rammed through the House and Senate was the largest power grab by the federal government in at least a ...
Commentary
Medical bankruptcy: Fact or fiction?
This year, a whopping 1.25 million Americans are expected to file for bankruptcy. That’s about equal to the entire population of New Hampshire. Ask the president and his allies whom to blame, and they’ll point to health care. President Obama has claimed that the cost of health care causes a ...
California
Repeal or not, California’s stuck with Obamacare
Even if Mitt Romney is elected president and gets rid of Obamacare, we might be stuck with some variation of it here in California. That’s what’s behind Gov. Jerry Brown this week calling a special session of the California Legislature to deal with health care in December or January. The ...
Commentary
Single-Payer Health Care Won’t Die, Despite Failures
The dream of single-payer health care in America just won’t die. Vermont is trying to implement a single-payer system by itself. This month, Green Mountain State officials will actually dictate how much hospitals can raise spending in the coming year. At the national level, Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., has introduced ...
Commentary
Congenital American Impatience Points to Obamacare’s Failure
Healthcare spending grew at the second-lowest rate on record in 2010, according to recent data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS). Still, the $2.6 trillion the United States spent represented a 3.9-percent increase over the previous year. All told, health care consumed 17.9 percent of the U.S. Gross ...
Commentary
Failure to Discuss Healthcare Reform Was Purposeful Lapse
President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address included many important topics, but as far as physicians were concerned, he missed a key one: healthcare reform. To Sally C. Pipes, a longtime activist for free-market healthcare reform, that was no accidental oversight. Pipes, president of the Pacific Research Institute, a ...
Medicaid
If Health Spending is Increasing Slower, Why Are Premiums Rising Faster?
Key Points: The rate of increase in private health spending has dropped significantly since the financial crisis hit in 2008, although government programs like Medicare and Medicaid have continued along their unsustainable path. However, administrative costs and private premiums began to increase immediately upon President Obama’s enacting the Patient Protection ...
The Many Failures of Single Payer
Vermonts incumbent governor, Peter Shumlin, wants his state to become the first to launch a government takeover of its health-care system. But the results of last months election could give him pause. He was unable to secure a majority of votes this November after winning 58 percent of the ...
Seven steps to replace Obamacare with something that works
Excerpted from “The Cure for Obamacare” (Encounter Broadsides, summer 2013) President Obama took a shot at opponents of his health care reform law recently, saying, “there’s not even a pretense now that they’re going to replace it with something better.” Au contraire. Ideas for “something better” abound but the ...
Is Obamacare paving the way for single-payer system?
Suffering from illness or injury? Good thing youre not British. U.K. police recently investigated the deaths of 300 patients at one hospital. The suspected cause? Neglect. No wonder average waiting times for accident and emergency patients have hit a nine-year high. That could never happen in America, right? On ...
Delay, Repeal, Replace
Watching Congress take the final steps to pass Obamacare in March 2010 was a bitterly disappointing moment for the laws opponents. They didnt have to be told that what was being rammed through the House and Senate was the largest power grab by the federal government in at least a ...
Medical bankruptcy: Fact or fiction?
This year, a whopping 1.25 million Americans are expected to file for bankruptcy. That’s about equal to the entire population of New Hampshire. Ask the president and his allies whom to blame, and they’ll point to health care. President Obama has claimed that the cost of health care causes a ...
Repeal or not, California’s stuck with Obamacare
Even if Mitt Romney is elected president and gets rid of Obamacare, we might be stuck with some variation of it here in California. That’s what’s behind Gov. Jerry Brown this week calling a special session of the California Legislature to deal with health care in December or January. The ...
Single-Payer Health Care Won’t Die, Despite Failures
The dream of single-payer health care in America just won’t die. Vermont is trying to implement a single-payer system by itself. This month, Green Mountain State officials will actually dictate how much hospitals can raise spending in the coming year. At the national level, Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., has introduced ...
Congenital American Impatience Points to Obamacare’s Failure
Healthcare spending grew at the second-lowest rate on record in 2010, according to recent data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS). Still, the $2.6 trillion the United States spent represented a 3.9-percent increase over the previous year. All told, health care consumed 17.9 percent of the U.S. Gross ...
Failure to Discuss Healthcare Reform Was Purposeful Lapse
President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address included many important topics, but as far as physicians were concerned, he missed a key one: healthcare reform. To Sally C. Pipes, a longtime activist for free-market healthcare reform, that was no accidental oversight. Pipes, president of the Pacific Research Institute, a ...
If Health Spending is Increasing Slower, Why Are Premiums Rising Faster?
Key Points: The rate of increase in private health spending has dropped significantly since the financial crisis hit in 2008, although government programs like Medicare and Medicaid have continued along their unsustainable path. However, administrative costs and private premiums began to increase immediately upon President Obama’s enacting the Patient Protection ...
