A criticism often leveled at American health care is that our quasi-capitalistic system isn’t equitable, that poor patients receive poor care simply because they are poor. Implicit in this criticism is the assumption that a universal government-run system would be more egalitarian. However, the BBC reports on a new study that reveals this assumption to be nonsense.
The NHS is […]
We are often told by the advocates of government-run health care that a single-payer system would be innocuous because our masters inside the beltway would not actually own hospitals or employ clinicians. Well, the WSJ Health Blog demonstrates the vacuity of that assertion by explaining the latest P4P proposal from the single-payer system known as […]
Dr. Wes gives a good run-down on what was going on with the VP’s ticker yesterday. What jumped out at me, as I perused the news reports, was that Cheney’s atrial fibrillation was detected in the morning and fixed in the afternoon. We spend so much time bellyaching about the cost and inefficiencies in our […]
Anti-HSA types often try to counter pro-cost sharing arguments by constructing elaborate hypothetical scenarios filled with arbitrary assumptions. These confections typically begin as Paul Krugman’s does in this op-ed:
Imagine what would happen if there were only one insurance company, and everyone was required to buy the same insurance policy …
But we don’t need to ”imagine” how people behave […]
A favorite talking point of the anti-market crowd holds that Health Savings Accounts won’t work because they will undermine the beneficial effects of large all-inclusive “risk pools.”
HSAs would, according to the “risk pool” argument, create mutually exclusive insurance markets for the “healthy and wealthy” and the “sick and poor,” allowing insurance companies to pillage the […]
Today is a sad day for “progressives.” They have lost a cause célèbre that has contributed much to their overweening sense of moral superiority. While they brayed about a fictional “anti-science administration” and made preposterous claims about the efficacy of stem cell research, some actual scientists have rendered the debate moot. Per the NYT:
Two teams of […]
Today I’m starting an intermittent series in which I intend to highlight particularly sanctimonious blog posts and essays about health care—the kind of moralizing that evokes images of the Church Lady leaning over her desk and asking, “Could it be (fill in appropriate Lefty demon)?”
Today’s church lady is Maggie Mahar, whose latest post about the WellCare investigation […]
I have commented before on the determination of “universal health care” advocates to promote their agenda even if it means ignoring the voters and their elected representatives. One could hardly ask for clearer a demonstration of this arrogance than the recent actions of Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois.
At issue is the expansion of an Illinois […]
Like Redstate, I’ve received plenty of wacky Ron Paul comments. But, yesterday, it went to a new level: I got my first death threat, or something very like one. In response to a post about Ron Paul and Hillary Clinton, I received a comment from “Brian” that begins as follows:
Someone should want to kill you for […]
Media health care coverage is becoming more and more Orwellian. The latest example of this weird phenomenon is this story, in the Boston Globe, which suggests that the failure of Romneycare’s architects to adequately fund their boondoggle is a good thing:
Even if signups slow, the program will probably still be over budget - a […]
