Here’s an amusing response (see the “update” section) to yesterday’s post about how generally clueless the ”reality-based” community seems to be regarding the implications of single-payer health care. Ron Chusid describes my comments as follows:
The post … gives a totally inaccurate view of Medicare … [and] claims that Medicare is socialized medicine, controlling the health […]
It is profoundly ironic that the soi disant “reality-based” community remains so doggedly out of touch with reality where single-payer health care is concerned. An excellent example can be found in the following passage from Corpus Callosum praising the latest faux-populist rant from Dennis Kucinich:
Finally, we have a nice succinct statement from a politician on […]
I suspected Megan (a.k.a. Jane) was on to something when the usual suspects pounced on her comments about the abuse of anecdotes in various writings about health care. That impression was confirmed when I read the following:
Single-payer advocates drag out some American woman who didn’t get a breast cancer exam until it was too late […]
I’m definitely a believer in the market, and my problems with Medicare can be found here, but the picture for Medicare Advantage is not quite as rosy as John Goodman makes it out to be. As I explain here, some of the independent agents selling these plans are using deceptive tactics. Many of the seniors […]
Harry Cain’s Health Affairs post about Medicare should be required reading for anyone naïve enough to believe there’s any real difference between single-payer health care and socialized medicine.
The essence of socialized medicine is not, as single-payer advocates would have it, in the nominal “ownership” of the providers, but rather in the idea that central […]
A variety of commentators, including Sarah Dine, have attributed congressional ambivalence on the issue of expanded SCHIP funding to insufficient national emphasis on the well-being of children. However, as Grace-Marie Turner points out, much of the money allocated for SCHIP has been diverted to adult patients. She provides a variety of examples, including the following: […]
An important health care story about Medicare Advantage is being missed because the news media are caught up in yet another of their feeding frenzies (Walter Reed). Via Schwitzer health news blog, a journalist makes the following observation:
In many areas, plans have contracted with independent brokers/agents to make a last push to persuade beneficiaries to […]
One of the talking points frequently deployed by the socialized medicine crowd to explain away WR’s bureaucratic inefficiencies is that all the trouble started when those malevolent Bushies unleashed that most ravenous of all beasts: “privatization.” Well, as this story makes perfectly clear, government bureaucrats thwarted the project by snaring IAP in a thicket of […]
The hysteria over Walter Reed has progressed to the point that long-abandoned buildings are now being held up as proof that the Bush administration is manned exclusively by the spawn of Satan. A lot of bloggers have been suckered into believing that photos posted by WUSA9 show buildings in which wounded troops are being housed.A […]
A cherished statistic among advocates of socialized medicine involves the allegedly high rate of infant mortality in this country, which they offer as proof that government-run healthcare must be imposed on the entire population. It turns out that, like popular myths about the uninsured, there is less here than meets the eye. The Economist weblog […]
