I inflicted my first post on an unsuspecting world on February 7, 2007. It received a whopping 41 page views. Counting only those readers who were not my friends or relatives, it may have racked up a dozen reads.
That didn’t bother me, however, because I was so clueless about blogging that I didn’t know how to access my stats. When I finally unraveled that […]
At first glance, retail health clinics look like a classic “lower-end” disruptive innovation—a medical delivery model that caters to a segment of the market that has been inadequately served by the traditional delivery model. But the RHC phenomenon isn’t really a response to normal market forces. It’s a reaction to perverse incentives created by government price controls.
CMS payment reductions for primary care services have created […]
Single-payer advocates would have us believe that the high cost of health coverage is caused by greedy insurance companies. And, predictably, the remedy these people recommend is more government regulation.
Well, as this excellent WSJ piece explains, more government regulation is not the solution. Why? Because excess government regulation is the CAUSE of high insurance prices.
To hear some of the presidential […]
Peter Chowka has written a good piece on the “universal health care” project contemplated by Barack Obama and other Democrats. One of the article’s best passages involves the effect of incessant media crisis-mongering. Discussing a recent public opinion survey, Chowka points out the following:
Vast majorities of those sampled – including 93 per cent of Democrats – […]
As much as it pains me to use a Hillary ad, this does a good job of illustrating how Obama has changed his position on single-payer health care:
For his Presidential campaign, Obama has deliberately repackaged his positions so they won’t seem scary. But make no mistake about it: He’s a nanny state liberal.
Yesterday, Texas Governor Rick Perry asked Mike Huckabee to drop out of the Republican Presidential race. Why? Because he can’t win. Here’s how the math works against him, explained by the Prince of Darkness:
But Huckabee, like Ron Paul, refuses to do the honorable thing. Instead, he is using today’s Kansas victory as a pretext for staying in […]
Every party seems to have at least one guest who will not go home, no matter how many hints you drop that the soirée is over. The Republican Party has just such a guest, and his name is Ron Paul. Republican primary voters have dropped hint after hint that it is time to leave, but he refuses. And, like that proverbial […]
Not everyone is content to rely on hope or prayer to forestall a government-imposed health insurance mandate. In Arizona, doctors Jeffrey Singer and Eric Novack are gathering signatures for statewide ballot initiative called The Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act.
The measure, which would amend the Arizona constitution if approved by the voters, would preserve consumer choice […]
I’m sure Mitt Romney is a good man, and he may even have made a good president. Moreover, today’s speech contained some useful words to the wise about the necessity of keeping the White House out of Democrat hands:
Nonetheless, his complicity in the Massachusetts “universal” health care program rendered him anathema to yours truly. It demonstrated that he […]
Had any commentator predicted in 1994 that the health care industry would one day be an important financial contributor to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, that person would have been laughed out of the commentariat.
After the fall of Hillarycare, everyone assumed that Mrs. Clinton and “the health care industrial complex” would be sworn enemies until one or the […]
