Some health care bloggers have been anxious to declare Romneycare a success, but Romney himself seems to be less than anxious to take credit for it. The Cato blog links to a couple of reports by ABC News and the Washington Post that discuss Romney’s curious reluctance to discuss the issue. The Post suggests that […]
Demonstrating, once again, that there is no bad idea that government—state or federal—can’t make worse, California is considering what sort of punishments will be meted out to citizens who defy their masters in Sacramento:
People who refuse to obtain health insurance could be tracked down by the state or a private contractor, enrolled in a plan […]
This is post isn’t about health care. It’s about net neutrality and John Edwards coming down on the right side of at least one issue:
I am a strong believer in Net Neutrality. I believe it is enormously important.
Since he is wrong on health care and most other issues, I wanted to commend him for […]
A popular talking point among advocates of socialized medicine is that rising health care costs can only be brought under control if the government takes over the system. If that seems counter-intuitive, it is not an illusion. I just discovered this 2004 study, by Christopher Conover, which shows that government regulation is one of the […]
Kevin, MD links to this post about the HHS Secretary’s refusal to negotiate with pharmaceutical manufacturers for lower drug prices. At first glance, this policy seems crazy, but Joseph Antos of the American Enterprise Institute advises that it is indeed the wisest course:
Many people … say that Medicare should follow the lead of the U.S. […]
I can never decide who is more clueless on health care, Paul Krugman or Ezra Klein. The former is wrong more often, but he is so disingenuous it is hard to know what he really thinks. The latter, however, seems to honestly believe the goofy things he writes about health care.
A case in point […]
Jason Furman of the Hamilton Project has put forward an HSA plan that, at first glance, seems pretty sensible:
I propose that households pay 50 percent of their expenses up to 7.5 percent of income, with no cost sharing for low-income households and a $15,000 limit for high-income households.
This will, in his estimation, resolve the “one-size-fits-all” […]
In an unintentionally hilarious piece about Barack Obama’s continuing evasions on health care reform, John Dickerson advises the readers of Slate that it’s perfectly reasonable to run for president having no clue what to do about one of the most important public policy issues of our time:
Putting out detailed white papers isn’t the only […]
Josh Hendrickson of The Everyday Economist prescribes a real cure in TCS Daily:
Reforming the health care system by realigning incentives through free market reforms would do a great deal to reduce health expenditures while having little impact on the quality of care and health itself.
And he makes short work of the single-payer position:
By contrast, […]
After a thoughtful discussion of John Goodman’s recent WSJ piece, Dr. Rob at Musings of a Distractible Mind asks his readers the following three-part question:
Does healthcare reform require more or less government intervention? Should quality be rewarded? If so, how do you avoid the pitfalls so many fear from P4P?
Well, the answer to part three […]
