As I have pointed out many times, a good deal of BS appears in the “news” media relating to health care. Few articles, however, reach the level of irresponsibility achieved yesterday in Slate:
Imagine you run a hospital. There are two competing sources for inpatient beds. The first source is patients who come in through direct and transfer […]
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Posted 25 July 2008
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Ever wonder why Lefties have such difficulty absorbing and correctly interpreting objective data? Well, Ezra Klein inadvertantly provides a hint in his latest piece on Romneycare, which begins thus:
Everyone who looks at the Massachusetts health reform plan sees what they want to see.
What we have here, of course, is a textbook case of projection. It isn’t “everyone” who […]
A personality trait common among progressives is an inability to admit it when they have been wrong. This is what causes them to doggedly defend favorite programs long after they have been shown to be miserable failures. A case in point is the latest NYT editorial about the 2006 Massachusetts universal health care initiative:
Massachusetts’s pioneering plan to provide universal health coverage […]
Tim Russert was one of the few broadcast journalists for whom I had respect. He was not afraid to ask real questions and insist on actual answers.
I was looking forward to seeing him force Barack Obama to abandon the windy bromides and actually say something of substance.
C’est la vie.
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Posted 13 June 2008
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As I have previously noted, the “news” media are doing their best to create the impression that the U.S. economy is going to Hell in a handbasket and that Americans in general are in bad shape.
This theme is echoed in the rhetoric of the leading presidential candidates, each of whom would like to convince the electorate that our […]
Having spent the 1990s studiously ignoring Bill Clinton’s bizarre refusal to release his medical records, the “news” media have suddenly developed an abiding interest in the health history of at least one presidential candidate—-John McCain.
So, McCain released his records and they show that he’s in great health. But what are mere facts to editors who increasingly see themselves as Democratic campaign operatives? Here are […]
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Posted 24 May 2008
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Last week, I predicted that the recent Harvard study on life expectancy would produce all manner of disingenuous stories in the establishment media and the blogosphere. While this prediction didn’t exactly require the prescience of Nostradamus, it is nonetheless gratifying to be proven right.
The award for the dumbest response goes to AmericaBlog, where Bush is blamed for isolated declines that occurred […]
Krugman is trashing Obama again. Maybe anxiety about upcoming layoffs at the NYT has made him bitter:
During the closing days of the Pennsylvania primary fight, the Obama campaign ran a TV ad repeating the dishonest charge that the Clinton plan would force people to buy health insurance they can’t afford.
Hillary does indeed want to foist a […]
One of the sawbones over at M.D.O.D. succinctly captures the true value of Paul Krugman’s health care commentary:
Paul Krugman is a regular editorial columnist: a Princeton professor of economics with a Yale undergraduate degree and a PhD from M.I.T. He often comments on health care issues, so I read his column. Then I take the paper and […]
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Posted 17 April 2008
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The credibility of single-payer advocates depends largely on their ability to present the Canadian health care system—-the closest real-world example of the medical delivery model they promote—-as superior to the U.S. system. In order to achieve that goal, however, they need some way of discrediting the stories that constantly appear in the media about the poor quality and long waiting lists to which the […]
