Scalpel has a good post on free-standing ERs that refuse to participate in Medicare or Medicaid and are thus immune to EMTALA. These outfits are likely to produce handwringing among those uncomfortable with such emergency medical services being performed by providers who can’t feel the hot breath of Big Brother on their necks.
Before long we’ll be reading a solemn Health Affairs article […]
It is increasingly likely that the battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton over the Democratic presidential nomination will result in a McCain victory in November. As Noam Scheiber puts in TNR:
Democrats contemplate the apocalypse these days, they have visions of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton slugging it out à la Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter at […]
Graham wraps up his ”Health Care’s Broke” series by advocating a fix: implement single-payer. In support of this proposition, he avers that single-payer would provide “direction” to the system. Here is how he puts it:
Pick almost any issue I’ve mentioned–or haven’t–that concerns you, and ask yourself if you think it’ll go anywhere without some sort of organized […]
The National Federation of Independent Business recently hosted a mandate debate between Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute, Sherry Glied of Columbia University, Bob Moffit of the Heritage Foundation, and Peter Harbage of the Center for American Progress.
Cannon, at one point in the discussion, questioned the fairness of forcing healthy young people to buy insurance when they may wish to […]
Panda Bear, MD must have incredibly strong metacarpals. His posts make my hands hurt just reading them. And, unlike most long blog posts, his effusions usually remain coherent from beginning to end. Here’s his take on what government can do to improve health care:
It would be a simpler, cheaper, and, as our country is terrifically overdoctored and overmedicated, probably […]
Russell Roberts, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and Dr. Quentin Young, of PNHP , debate the question on NPR’s “Justice Talking.”
Roberts, who also blogs at Cafe Hayek, is far more convincing in my not so humble opinion. But don’t take my word for it, go here and listen for yourself.
Ron Paul said he was going to stop stinking up the presidential race, but I guess he was just gibbering again. According to the Washington Times, Dr. Faux is whining about being dissed by the GOP and its presumptive presidential nominee:
Ron Paul says the legions of newcomers his presidential campaign brought to the Republican Party are […]
Megan McArdle is uneasy with the condescending attitude toward the hoi polloi that informs ”progressive” enthusiasm for health insurance mandates:
I’m persistently disturbed by the notion that most of our fellow citizens are intellectual children who need to be forced to do what is good for them even at massive cost to their liberty, and ours.
This was written in […]
I have always been skeptical of public opinion polls, and I still take them with a truckload of salt, but the results of this Gallup poll warrant some attention. It would appear that the public regards John McCain as the most honest of the candidates:
It’s no surprise, of course, that Clinton comes in WAY behind McCain and Obama […]
The vaunted Massachusetts “universal coverage” plan has let so many patients fall through the cracks that a key Boston health care system is going broke providing care to the uninsured. The Boston Globe reports that Cambridge Health Alliance is facing a “catastrophic” loss:
The alliance … says it is being hit hard by the state’s new healthcare reform […]
