A New York Times journalist with a health care stat is like a toddler with a loaded pistol. The combination of intellectual underdevelopment and sophisticated weaponry is a recipe for mayhem. Anyone doubting this should read Nicholas Kristof’s most recent column. Among its many ignorant assertions is the following:
The U.S. now spends far more on medical […]
While the debate over health care reform rages with ever-greater intensity in the blogosphere and mass media, our masters in government are moving quietly forward with the implementation of socialized medicine. Via NCPA, Jack Markowitz describes how it’s happening:
Maybe it’s time to quit debating socialized medicine and admit we’ve got it … Roughly a quarter […]
Kevin, MD links to Matthew Holt’s sophomoric attempt at slaying the dreaded free market dragon. Possessing little by way of legitimate statistical weaponry, Holt deploys tailored data against the refractory beast. An illustrative example involves bankruptcies allegedly caused by medical bills:
Perhaps health care costs don’t actually cause bankruptcies, or at least not at the 50% rate that […]
I can never decide whether the journalists who cover health care are dishonest or just plain dumb. Having read various reports about the porcine provocateur’s latest film, Sicko, I’m inclined toward the latter conclusion. Only sheer stupidity can explain the apparent credulity with which the various media have reported Moore’s agitprop. An illustrative example can be […]
It has long been my belief that, however much contempt Michael Moore may feel for conservatives, it is as nothing compared to the disdain he has for the “progressives” who actually take him seriously. How else can one explain the following howler, produced in his recent Time interview?
Every fact in my films is true. And […]
David Hogberg uses Sweden’s single-payer system to provide a couple of useful object lessons regarding government-run health care:
Sweden’s health care system offers two lessons for the policymakers of the United States. The first is that a single-payer system is not the answer to the problems faced as Americans. Sweden’s system does not hold down costs and results […]
The “news” media is already providing fleshy film-maker Michael Moore with plenty of free publicity for his upcoming “documentary” about American health care. The latest example is an interview in Time. Among the softball questions tossed in Moore’s direction was a predictable query regarding his recent trip to Cuba. In response, Moore provided a shopworn […]
Health Affairs asks the following question relating to Marsha Gold’s new piece on MA: Are Medicare PFFS plans worth it? I would respond with a qualified yes.
The caveat involves some very real marketing abuses. My staff, which includes registration, scheduling, and customer service people who routinely interact with our Medicare patients, confirm that stories […]
It’s probably safe to say that the universe of Ron Paul partisans doesn’t overlap much with that of President Bush’s supporters. This is ironic because, foreign policy disagreements notwithstanding, the two politicians are actually in agreement on most issues. Nowhere is this more evident than in the area of health care. Here, for example, is […]
The “news” media and some “progressive” blogs are parroting the latest health care propaganda from the Commonwealth Fund. Predictably, the new “study” finds all manner of problems with the American system:
Despite having the most costly health system in the world, the United States consistently underperforms on most dimensions of performance, relative to other countries.
Oddly absent […]
