Medicaid
Commentary
Roadmap to Victory
Providing a contrast would best expose the weaknesses of the Democratic health bills. By proposing a health-care bill of their own, Senate Republicans can throw the extraordinary weaknesses of the Democratic bills into stark relief. In the wake of the Congressional Budget Office’s recent scoring of aspects of the House ...
Commentary
Reid’s fuzzy math
New York Post, November 19, 2009 New York Post, November 20, 2009* Real Clear Politics, November 20, 2009 ‘Reform’ bill’s true cost is twice advertised price Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is touting the Senate’s newest health-care bill as costing $849 billion over 10 years. But this uses the same ...
Commentary
Checking the ObamaCare Math
The health care debate has largely been a battle of numbers, and the most widely cited one — 46 million uninsured — isn’t even accurate. According to the census, the real number [1] of uninsured Americans is 28 million: 46 million, minus nine million non-citizens, minus nine million people on ...
Commentary
The CBO Is Using the Wrong Number of Uninsured
As I detailed in the New York Post last month, according to the Census, there are 28 million uninsured Americans: 46 million, minus 9 million non-citizens, minus the 9 million people on Medicaid who were falsely tallied. That’s 28 million out of 280 million American citizens (according to the Census), ...
Commentary
Federal Medicaid Funds Addictive Like Hard Drugs
Medicaid has grown out-of-control in the last four and a half decades, because there is nothing preventing states from competing against each other in a “race to the bottom” for federal funds. Last February, Congress and President Obama made it worse, through the so-called “stimulus” bill (ARRA), which bailed out ...
Commentary
On the ‘Sacredness’ of Government Health Care
There is no doubt that the political class believes the “system” to be sacred. This is not surprising: Any ruling faction needs an established religion to control the people, and health care is the most likely candidate in this secular age. After all, Henry VIII claimed to believe that the ...
Commentary
Security and Stability
If Speaker of the House Pelosi is able to muster the 218 votes needed for passage by the House and approval later this year or early next year, there is no question that the final outcome will be higher premiums for all Americans and more uninsured. The president focused in ...
Health Care
The AMA Is More a Monopoly in Crisis Than a Professional Association
As for the AMA, even the Wall Street Journal labels the AMA the “doctors lobby” (sic), while noting that 20 other physicians’ organizations are highly critical of the proposed legislation. Actually, state, county, and specialized medical societies are the real voices of the profession. The AMA is a business that ...
California
Why California’s “Two-Plan” Does Not Support the “Public Option”
Last month, Christina Romer, professor of economics at UC Berkeley, and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, made a presentation at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC. In response to a question about whether a so-called “public option” for health insurance would increase competition and reduce costs, ...
Business & Economics
Exploring reasons for the rising cost of care in the state
It seems that everyone has an opinion regarding what should be done to reform our health care system. Most people believe that changes to our current system need to be made, but not quickly and not by politicians. The costs must come down, but not by rationing, government price controls ...
Roadmap to Victory
Providing a contrast would best expose the weaknesses of the Democratic health bills. By proposing a health-care bill of their own, Senate Republicans can throw the extraordinary weaknesses of the Democratic bills into stark relief. In the wake of the Congressional Budget Office’s recent scoring of aspects of the House ...
Reid’s fuzzy math
New York Post, November 19, 2009 New York Post, November 20, 2009* Real Clear Politics, November 20, 2009 ‘Reform’ bill’s true cost is twice advertised price Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is touting the Senate’s newest health-care bill as costing $849 billion over 10 years. But this uses the same ...
Checking the ObamaCare Math
The health care debate has largely been a battle of numbers, and the most widely cited one — 46 million uninsured — isn’t even accurate. According to the census, the real number [1] of uninsured Americans is 28 million: 46 million, minus nine million non-citizens, minus nine million people on ...
The CBO Is Using the Wrong Number of Uninsured
As I detailed in the New York Post last month, according to the Census, there are 28 million uninsured Americans: 46 million, minus 9 million non-citizens, minus the 9 million people on Medicaid who were falsely tallied. That’s 28 million out of 280 million American citizens (according to the Census), ...
Federal Medicaid Funds Addictive Like Hard Drugs
Medicaid has grown out-of-control in the last four and a half decades, because there is nothing preventing states from competing against each other in a “race to the bottom” for federal funds. Last February, Congress and President Obama made it worse, through the so-called “stimulus” bill (ARRA), which bailed out ...
On the ‘Sacredness’ of Government Health Care
There is no doubt that the political class believes the “system” to be sacred. This is not surprising: Any ruling faction needs an established religion to control the people, and health care is the most likely candidate in this secular age. After all, Henry VIII claimed to believe that the ...
Security and Stability
If Speaker of the House Pelosi is able to muster the 218 votes needed for passage by the House and approval later this year or early next year, there is no question that the final outcome will be higher premiums for all Americans and more uninsured. The president focused in ...
The AMA Is More a Monopoly in Crisis Than a Professional Association
As for the AMA, even the Wall Street Journal labels the AMA the “doctors lobby” (sic), while noting that 20 other physicians’ organizations are highly critical of the proposed legislation. Actually, state, county, and specialized medical societies are the real voices of the profession. The AMA is a business that ...
Why California’s “Two-Plan” Does Not Support the “Public Option”
Last month, Christina Romer, professor of economics at UC Berkeley, and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, made a presentation at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC. In response to a question about whether a so-called “public option” for health insurance would increase competition and reduce costs, ...
Exploring reasons for the rising cost of care in the state
It seems that everyone has an opinion regarding what should be done to reform our health care system. Most people believe that changes to our current system need to be made, but not quickly and not by politicians. The costs must come down, but not by rationing, government price controls ...
