In 1992, Bill Clinton was elected President because 19% of the voters were naive enough to pull the lever for a certified wackjob: Ross Perot. Looking at the results of the Ames straw poll, I have a sinking feeling that history may repeat itself in 2008.
In the straw poll, Ron Paul garnered 9% of the vote. This […]
Rudolph Giuliani’s recently announced health care strategy has been getting mixed reviews. The Left’s carefully coordinated denunciation was, of course, no surprise. Less predictably, some free market advocates, like Cato’s Michael Cannon, have also been underwhelmed. David Hogberg is among those whose enthusiasm for Rudycare is tepid. His American Spectator piece on “Hizzoner’s” plan explains why:
The more I look at Giuliani’s plan, the […]
The Health Wonk Review features a post in which Matthew Holt, after seemingly interminable throat-clearing, stumbles across one of the most serious problems facing American health care:
We have a huge over-preponderance of specialists who both earn way more than primary care physicians, and use considerably more resources.
Unfortunately, Holt fails to comprehend the significance of his […]
Mitch McConnell has a column at Townhall.com about the political skulduggery surrounding SCHIP. Having supported the original SCHIP bill ten years ago, he now says the Democrats have hijacked the program:
They view the reauthorization of this popular program as a license to raise taxes, increase spending and take a giant leap toward government-run health care. […]
According to the New York Post, Hillary Clinton will soon be playing nurse for the cameras:
She will work a shift as a nurse at a Las Vegas hospital next week, it was disclosed yesterday … The high-profile event is part of the Service Employees International Union’s “Walk a day in my shoes program.”
Although the mental […]
The advocates of socialized medicine, particularly those pushing “Medicare for All,” peddle the myth that administrative costs are somehow lower for the government than for private enterprise. A classic example of such nonsense can be found at this blog, which features the following excerpt from a letter to the editor:
I find it highly disturbing that […]
I have pointed out before that Ron Paul is not what he claims to be. He wraps himself, for example, in the mantle of Libertarianism while voting for government price fixing. He also calls for a free market in health care while supporting a federal mandate requiring ERs to treat patients with no emergency condition.
It […]
As I have pointed out before, government price controls always produce shortages, no matter what industry is involved. In health care, arbitrary limitations on what doctors and hospitals can charge will always produce provider shortages.
This is not speculation. Many American hospitals have already closed as a result of Medicare and Medicaid “cost control” measures, and […]
One of the more frustrating aspects of the debate over SCHIP expansion has been the reluctance of its opponents to clearly point out the prevarications being used to promote this fraud. So, the clarity of this Examiner editorial is refreshing:
Let’s revise the old saw about knowing when politicians lie. Instead of “when his lips are moving,” it should be “when […]
Having rolled out his basic strategy for reform earlier this week, “ America’s Mayor” now has an op-ed piece in the Boston Globe discussing American health care and what ails it. His diagnosis isn’t tentative:
The healthcare system is being dragged down by decades of government-imposed mandates, wasteful bureaucracy, and massive distortions in the US tax […]
