Like having a hospital within a few miles of your house for emergencies and other medical needs? Well, enjoy it while it lasts. It won’t be around for long if the following assertion in the WSJ is correct:
Hospital infections will cause the next wave of class-action lawsuits, bigger than the litigation over asbestos.
Here’s a news flash: hospitals […]
By now, everyone who hasn’t been living on a desert island knows that traditional Medicare is headed for a fiscal meltdown. However, as I have pointed out before, there is a silver lining to the black cloud.
One segment of the Medicare program in which the market has been allowed to work, the prescription drug program, has been outperforming cost […]
Masochist that I am, I’ve been perusing the Dems 2008 draft platform again. I can’t help myself. This thing is like a horrible accident from which I cannot avert my eyes.
It’s really astonishing that they could get so many irretrievably bad ideas into a single document. The one that caught my eye this morning was the call […]
That’s the conclusion Steffie Woolhandler, Benjamin Day, and David Himmelstein have reached. Why? Because Romneycare expanded coverage to everyone while making no serious adjustments to the other dynamics that affect cost. The inevitable result was a fiscal runaway train:
In sum, neither government, nor employers, nor the uninsured themselves have pockets deep enough to sustain coverage expansion […]
I rarely agree with Shannon Brownlee, but she has a post over at Ezra Klein’s blog that makes a good point about Medicare Advantage and the recent veto override:
As much as it pains me to say it, President Bush may have been right to veto legislation that delayed Medicare pay cuts for doctors by cutting […]
As I have said before, I believe the market provides the most efficient and humane mechanism for carrying out health care rationing. If you believe government bureaucracies can do a better job, I recommend this story in The Telegraph:
The NHS should not always attempt to save someone’s life if the cost is too much, the medical regulator has ruled.
Britain’s […]
The Democrats have cobbled together their 2008 platform and it is a predictable mixture of bad ideas and promises they can’t possibly keep. This second category is well represented by the health care plank.
In fact, the very title of the health care section, “Affordable, Quality Health Care Coverage for All Americans,” implicitly promises a combination that no one […]
What is it about the “news” media that prevents them from producing honest coverage of health care issues? Are all editors and producers congenitally incapable of telling the truth?
I was inspired to ask this question by the articles I have read in the last 24 hours about the latest health care survey from the Commonwealth Fund. Here’s a sample:
The non-profit […]
911DOC over at M.D.O.D. provides some useful insight into how government-run health care works in actual practice. He begins with a photo of the multifarious prescription meds a VA patient brought with her to the ER:
Here is the bag ‘o pills brought in by a very nice gal tonight … Half of these expensive and dangerous medicines […]
You know you’re in for a tedious read when a blog post contains the shopworn “torture” metaphor in its title. Thus, it was with a sigh of resignation that I slogged through Joe Paduda’s response to my recent post about Lancet Oncology’s study of cancer survival rates.
Paduda disputes my claim that the U.S. has the best health care system, but his position […]
