Pete Stark apparently resides in an alternate reality. There is no other explanation, beyond sheer mendacity, for the op-ed he recently wrote for The Hill. The piece contains so many erroneous assertions that no single blog post can address them all, so I’ll focus on the following representative passage:
Shifting more cost and responsibility to the consumer as a strategy for […]
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THE STARK REALITY OF HEALTH REFORM
THE PLOT TO KILL THE HSA CONTINUES APACE
A couple of weeks ago I noted that congressional Democrats were working on a plan to effectively kill health savings accounts. The WSJ reports that the plot continues apace:
This week, the House passed legislation that included a provision to require every HSA transaction be reviewed and verified as a legitimate medical expense … it adds a layer […]
THE DEMOCRAT PLOT AGAINST THE HSA
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 […]
YES WE CAN’T … DO OUR OWN THINKING
The elderly bobby-soxer of TAP, as Mark Steyn aptly describes Ezra Klein, inadvertantly exposes the essential paternalism that animates the single-payer project:
Liberal solutions don’t try and force the individual into a governing role he or she is not equipped to assume.
In other words, the hoi polloi are simply too stupid to make their own health care decisions, so their betters in […]
CDHC HELPING TO STABILIZE HEALTH INFLATION
The annual rise in group health plan costs, a major component of health care inflation, has stabilized according to Financial Week. The 6.1% rate is still way too high, but it is coming down:
It is a big improvement from just a few years ago, when annual health plan increases were rising by double digits and employers despaired about […]
Single-Payer Advocacy Taints HSA Study
A variety of pro-single-payer blogs gleefully linked to a recent “study” purportedly showing that women are penalized by HSA plans simply because they are female. To quote Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, the study’s author:
High-deductible plans punish women for having breasts and uteruses and having babies.
That tendentious assertion suggests that the good doctor is not as objective […]
Consumer-Driven Health Care: Confusion Abounds
Confusion characterizes much of the public discourse about health care reform and nowhere is this more evident than in the area of consumer-driven health care. A case in point is this post on the Concurring Opinions weblog, in which Frank Pasquale confuses the CDHC issue with the specialty hospital controversy:
Some aspects of CDHC have a […]
