A week ago I was walking through the airport and saw the following headline peering out of a newspaper box: “Employers cut 80,000 jobs in March, unemployment rate jumps.” A quick perusal of the piece revealed the following:
The national unemployment rate rose from 4.8 percent ot 5.1 percent, the clearest sign yet that the economy […]
Last year I wrote a post suggesting that universal health care advocates are such prisoners of their ideology that facts have little or no meaning for them. Well, Paul Krugman has written a column that pretty much proves my case.
He begins by reciting a couple of anecdotes, including the tall tale that got Hillary in hot water recently. […]
Single-payer advocates are forever producing opinion polls that purport to show how the public or the medical community support some version of nationalized health care. Invariably, such surveys turn out to have been conducted using tendentious methodology.
Oddly, legitimate surveys using reputable methods always seem to produce different results. A good example is the latest Rasmussen poll. That survey of 1,000 adults shows […]
One of the reasons I find it so difficult to take “progressive” policy wonks seriously on health care reform is that they seem utterly incapable of honest and informed analysis. A typical manifestation of that intellectual handicap can be found in this post by Maggie Mahar, which begins with a misleading conflation of disparate data:
A combination of spending on new construction and hi-tech equipment pushed the nation’s hospital […]
The bête noire of the nanny state liberal is the autonomous citizen making her own decisions without interference from the government. Thus, congressional Democrats intend to throttle consumer-driven health care in the cradle. This policy brief from the RSC explains how they plan to do it:
Democrats are considering requiring “substantiation” of all HSA transactions from an independent third party […]
It would appear that government-run health care is among the Stuff White People Like:
In spite of having access to the best health insurance and fanciest hospitals, white people are passionate about the idea of socialized medicine.
But how commited are they to universal health care?
So much so that they have memorized statistics and examples of how for-profit medicine has destroyed the […]
We are always being told by the socialized medicine crowd that Americans are uniquely dissatisfied with our health care and that a government-run system would fix that. Well, Great Britain’s patients evidently didn’t get the memo. Per the Telegraph:
A growing number of NHS complaints are being upheld amid falling nursing standards and rushed GP appointments, according […]
Well, she’s been at it again. The NYT reveals that Hillary has been peddling another of her trademark whoppers:
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York has featured in her campaign stump speeches the story of a health care horror: an uninsured pregnant woman who lost her baby and died herself after being denied care by […]
The folks at the WSJ Health Blog have produced a post that can only be described as pure, unadulterated BS. Using figures from the most prosperous 1% of nonprofit hospitals, they make the following generalization:
There’s big money in health care, even for institutions that aren’t chartered to make a profit.
Here’s a chart (from the AHA) showing the “big money” that American […]
In addition to their afinity for phony surveys and fudged statistics, advocates of government-run health care are also fond of gratuitous assertions wholly unsupported by objective data. A classic example can be found in this AP article about child abuse and neglect:
The neglect cases include situations in which medical professionals conclude that a child got sick or didn’t […]
