For anyone still credulous enough to believe that Paul Krugman’s recent attack on Barack Obama was about health insurance mandates, here’s a wake-up call. In a “memo” to Obama, longtime Clinton henchman Lanny Davis writes:
Sen. Clinton is right and you are wrong. Her health care proposal provides for a universal mandate, and yours does not and leaves out millions […]
Did you think you were safe from the whims of CMS apparatchiks simply because you’re not a geezer yet? Think again.
Because Medicare bureaucrats have, in their infinite wisdom, decreed a reimbursement rate that barely covers half the cost of certain cancer drugs, many private patients will probably be denied life-saving treatment:
New Medicare rules for this class of radioimmunotherapy cancer drugs may bar thousands of lymphoma patients from […]
Advocates of universal coverage tend to discount the economic phenomenon known as “crowd-out.” Some simply don’t understand the concept, while others contend that it is nothing to fear.
Meanwhile, Maine’s “Dirigo” program has become the latest health care initiative to confirm that crowd-out is real and harmful. A new study sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund reports the following:
After 20 […]
The other day I wrote that Paul Krugman’s continuing attacks on Barack Obama prove that the Senator from Illinois must be doing someting right. But there’s more going on here than a dispute about health insurance mandates. Obama’s real crime can be found in this Newsweek poll:
Among those most likely to attend the [Iowa] caucuses, Obama has moved substantially […]
If you read only one health care article today, read this piece in The Objective Standard. Paul Hsieh and Lin Zinser, of FIRM, argue that government-run health care is not merely impractical but immoral:
The myriad problems with American health care and health insurance are the result of decades of government interference in the markets for these goods […]
In addition to encroaching on individual freedom and increasing unemployment, health insurance mandates do not achieve their ostensible goal–universal coverage. Among those who have pointed that out is Robert Reich. In a piece decrying Hillary Clinton’s attacks on Barack Obama, he writes the following:
We know from experience with mandated auto insurance–and we’re learning from what’s happening in […]
Many advocates of government-run health care believe the SCHIP expansion debate augurs well for their cause. These folks are, however, kidding themselves. I expand on this in today’s American Spectator.
After linking to this article outlining the manifold failures of the IHS, Kevin Pho directs the following question to the advocates of government-run health care:
How do you explain the miserable failure of the single-payer funded Indian Health Service? And before you explain that it is underfunded, why do you have such blind faith that the government will appropriately fund a national […]
Unlike John Edwards and Hillary Clinton, John McCain understands that health insurance mandates are a bad idea. Yesterday, during a campaign stop in New Hampshire, he said mandating health insurance makes about as much sense as requiring everyone to buy a house:
I’m not going to mandate that every American have health insurance. I’m not going to mandate that […]
John Edwards has been derided left, right and center for his proposal to use the apparatchiks of the IRS as health insurance enforcers. And the description offered by his campaign concerning how it would work does give one pause:
The process, according to the Edwards campaign, would resemble the process used to collect money from Americans who are delinquent on […]
