Last week, I noted a priceless debate exchange in which Paul Krugman was hoisted by his own petard. Here’s a clip from the same health care forum that shows John Stossel and Sally Pipes cleaning Krugman’s clock:
As Stossel points out, comparing socialized medicine to market-based health care is analogous to juxtaposing the U.S. Postal Service with Federal Express. Who in their right mind thinks the […]
The recent article in Health Affairs about John McCain’s health care reform plan is not to be taken seriously. It reads like it was written by Barack Obama’s campaign staff. John Goodman does a good job of exposing how slanted the piece really is:
Somewhat unusual for an article in Health Affairs, this piece is incredibly biased. Among […]
Barack Obama is not the only one lying about John McCain’s health care reform plan. Many of his supporters in the establishment media and blogosphere are being equally mendacious. An illustrative example is the following assertion by Joe Klein:
John McCain wants to tax your employer-provided health care benefits. He wants to replace those benefits with an insufficient tax […]
Among the canards promulgated by Barack Obama’s increasingly desperate presidential campaign is that John McCain has gone through a sudden and shocking metamorphosis. The ”once-principled” Republican (i.e. one willing to supinely accept defeat) has somehow become a pathological liar.
This nonsense is, of course, being robotically repeated by all of the usual Obamatons. Yet, with the laudable exception of Andrew Sullivan, none of these people seem to notice any of Obama’s stretchers. […]
Although we can safely disregard the WSJ piece by David Cutler and Brad DeLong on Obama’s health care plan, there is an excellent article on the plan in Health Affairs, and its conclusion is not flattering:
It greatly increases the federal regulation of private insurance but does not address the core economic incentives that drive health care […]
Today promises much toil for a blogger dedicated to cleaning the Augean Stables of the health care reform dabate. I guess a good place to begin shoveling is the steaming pile of BS deposited by David Cutler and Brad DeLong in the WSJ.
An important part of their argument for the superiority of Barack Obama’s health care plan involves the claim that Obama will cure U.S. […]
Kevin, MD has written an open letter to John McCain and Barack Obama challenging them on the primary care crisis. He correctly points out that neither has a plan to deal with the problem:
I do not hear any solutions addressing this issue on the campaign trail. No suggestions to, i) reform the dysfunctional physician payment system which […]
Joe Paduda took umbrage with my recent AmSpec article about Alaska’s CON law and sent a letter to the editor. Joe’s missive (several letters down under the title “BAD CON-NOTATIONS) is a comical mixture of irrelevancies and Lefty talking points.
My full response follows Paduda’s observations at the AmSpec web site, but I wanted to highlight one portion of the letter here at HCBS […]
That’s right. Progressive tut-tutting about “health care disparities” notwithstanding, it turns out that we spend almost exactly the same amount of money on health care for the poor as we do for the rich. Robert Samuelson reports the following in Newsweek:
On average, annual health spending per person—from all private and government sources—is equal for the poorest […]
It would appear that some of the media are paying a price for their outrageous treatment of Sarah Palin and her family. Their continuing loss of viewers and readers is richly deserved.
Meanwhile, for people interested in her actual record, I’ve done a piece on Governor Palin’s effort to repeal Alaska’s burdensome and counterproductive CON statute for […]
