Addicted to Medblogs takes a brief detour into political commentary with this.
The image does provide a frisson, but I don’t like to think of the upcoming election year without the hilariously implausible lies and Olympic-class crawfishing that Hillary will contribute to the public discourse.
Also, I don’t want to miss seeing Hillarycare 2.0 crash and burn. […]
The Happy Hospitalist links to a scary article about how much Medicaid pays for ER visits compared to other sources of payment. Here’s the most horrifying datum:
Researchers at the University of California San Francisco and Stanford University found that the uninsured patients paid 35 percent of their overall emergency room bills in 2004, versus 33 […]
While our “leaders” in Congress debate expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, the voters of Oregon have resoundingly rejected a similar effort in their state. Per the WSJ:
Oregon voters passed judgment Tuesday on a plan that would have made their state children’s health insurance program “universal” … the referendum took a major shellacking, […]
A central issue in the debate over health care reform is spending. The consensus seems to be that the steady increases we have seen in health care expenditures as a percentage of GDP are symptomatic of a dysfunctional delivery system badly in need of repair.
Not everyone endorses this gloomy perspective, however. In a recent article […]
Conspicuously absent from our political discourse in recent years has been good-natured humor. Rudy Giuliani seems bent on reinvigorating that lost art. A case in point is his recent quip about the consequences of a Clinton victory next year:
Think about it: If Hillary becomes president and we have HillaryCare, the Canadians will have absolutely no […]
Arnold Kling offers the following analogy:
Suppose we were 20-year-old guys who hung out together, and one of our friends was down on his luck with women. He’s really depressed about it. We decide–not necessarily the brightest idea–to hire him a prostitute. We don’t want him to know she’s a prostitute, so we all chip in […]
Ezra Klein touts the latest Commonwealth Fund agitprop as proof that American health care is going to Hell in a hand basket. Ironically, in his zeal to trash the U.S. system, he fails to notice that many of the survey’s findings undermine the case for universal health care. For example:
The U.S. had better wait time […]
According to the WSJ, the recent raid on WellCare was prompted by fraud allegations:
[The raid] was spurred at least in part by allegations that the company inflated the amount it spent on mental-health care in order to keep money it should have refunded to Florida’s Medicaid program.
But the allegations were made pursuant to a qui […]
A few weeks ago I linked to Jeff Goldsmith’s excellent piece about the perpetual health care “crisis.” Anyone still doubting his basic thesis should read this fascinating article published by Time in June of 1971. The attentive reader will recognize some hobby horses that are still being ridden by today’s crisis mongers:
For those who cannot afford the […]
I wonder how long it will be before Tim Russert wakes up beside a horse’s head. Long accustomed to nauseatingly obsequious treatment by the establishment media, her majesty was not amused by his presumptuous questions during the recent Democrat “debate.” She was particularly annoyed by the following query:
In order to give the American people an […]
