I got cuffed about a good bit when I wrote that Ron Paul’s support for drug reimportation was wrongheaded, but it appears that state-level experiments with this idea have vindicated my position. According to Kimberley Strassel’s recent WSJ piece:
Three years ago, grandstanding governors and mayors vowed to break federal law and set up state-run drug […]
Via Betsy’s Page, the WSJ provides yet another illustration of how unworkable universal health care is in the real world. This time, the implosion happened in Illinois:
Universal government health care has once again returned as a political cause, with many Democrats believing it’s the key to White House victory in 2008. They might want to […]
Libertarianism has remained a fringe movement largely due to widespread confusion about its core principles. Indeed, many professed libertarians have difficulty identifying what is and what is not consistent with its tenets. An excellent example of this phenomenon can be found in Ronald Bailey’s Reason article about the Coalition to Advance Healthcare Reform.
This article, […]
After covering the latest BS from Cuba on corpulent con artist Michael Moore, Michelle Malkin links to some great blogs that provide reality checks for the “reality-based” community. These and other blogs are working hard to counter propaganda from various useful idiots concerning
Cuba. As it happens, one of my colleagues at the hospital is […]
Ron Paul has caught fire in the blogosphere primarily due to his ostensible fidelity to principle. His supporters believe that, unlike most other politicians, he won’t compromise his core values for the sake of political expediency. This is how Reason puts it:
What makes Paul especially unusual is this: He takes the Constitution’s limits on federal […]
In light of the Senate’s latest action on prescription drug importation, I thought I’d take a look at Ron Paul’s position on that issue. When this issue came up in the House, he voted YES on importation, and this is how he explains that vote:
Reimportation allows American consumers, particularly seniors, to benefit from worldwide price […]
The medical and health policy blogs have already taken note of the latest study purporting to show that uninsured patients are being overcharged by hospitals. The political blogs won’t be far behind. There are two crucial and unassailable facts that must be absorbed in order to decode this “study” and the “news” articles it has […]
Are You Kidding Me? I thought this guy was a Libertarian! How can his supporters countenance a vote that would license the feds to bully private-sector businesses into selling their products below market value? Here’s how he justified this betrayal of principle:
Should government say something about controlling prices since it’s a government program? I want […]
Via Medskool the NYT continues its jihad against Medicare Advantage:
Federal officials said that the fastest-growing type of Medicare Advantage plan generally does not coordinate care, does not save money for Medicare and has been at the center of marketing abuses.
The article does not name the “federal officials,” but one suspects that they are congressional aids […]
Steve Burd, CEO of Safeway, has joined Andy Grove and a variety of other business leaders who believe they can fix health care. In an opinion piece for the Washington Times, he insinuates that everyone else working on the issue has been dithering:
Action must be taken … The time has come for all of us […]
