The WSJ Health Blog notes that Wal-Mart has saved its customers more than $1 billion with its $4 generics program:
Wal-Mart’s doing a bit of chest thumping this morning, claiming that its $4 generics program has saved consumers $1 billion — $1,032,573,012.61 as of March 10, to be precise.
These savings were brought about not by government cost […]
The NYT, having suddenly developed an interest in high-priced hookers, reveals a previously unknown aspect of the oldest profession: otherwise virtuous young women are being forced into a life of prostitution because America hasn’t solved its uninsured problem:
Ava Xi’an sells real estate on Long Island, and turned to selling herself when her father, who lacks health […]
Well, it looks as though Jeremiah Wright has accomplished what Paul Krugman and other Clinton lickspittles could not. According to Rasmussen, Obama lost fully seven points in one day relative to Hillary. Mark Steyn (via Flopping Aces) provides a quote from the revolting reverend that explains why:
The government gives [African-Americans] drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then […]
Jethro Bodine, that inimitable character from the old Beverly Hillbillies show, could never quite decide whether to become a brain surgeon or a fry cook. Sadly, such such career dilemmas are all too real under socialized medicine. Arnold Kling relays the following gag that illustrates this reality as it manifests itself in Cuba:
One Cuban young woman complains to another. “He lied to me! […]
One way single-pay advocates kid themselves about the cost of government-mandated “universal” health care is to ascribe magical powers to EMR. Typically delusional on this point is Maggie Mahar, who advises her readers that electronic medical records “guarantee many fewer errors, and much greater efficiency.”
I have been an enthusiastic advocate of EMR implementation in every hospital with which […]
In addition to the tall tales she’s been telling about her foreign policy experience, Hillary has apparently been lying about the part she played in creating the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. The Boston Globe reports the following:
Hillary Clinton, who has frequently described herself on the campaign trail as playing a pivotal role in forging […]
The other day, I wrote a post whose thrust was that central planning never works as well as the market (in health care or any other industry) because no group of experts can possibly possess all the information conveyed in a market-determined price.
Kevin Pho has written an excellent op-ed that illustrates the folly of central planning. Dr. Pho […]
Since seeing Oleanna fifteen years ago, I have held David Mamet in high regard. Having read Why I Am No Longer a Brain Dead Liberal, I now have even more respect for him. The essay doesn’t speak directly to health care, but it does contain this highly relevant passage:
What about the role of government? Well, in the abstract, coming […]
An Ontario woman did not rate timely care despite a cancer diagnosis and a huge tumor. Per the Globe & Mail:
Inside Sylvia de Vries lurked an enormous tumour and fluid totalling 18 kilograms. But not even that massive weight gain and a diagnosis of ovarian cancer could assure her timely treatment in Canada.
So, where do you […]
Shawn Tully advises the readers of Fortune Magazine that John McCain’s health care plan is better than the alternatives offered by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama:
For all its problems, at least it puts the consumer in charge … It will create a world where health care is treated as the precious resource that it is, […]
