Single-payer advocates are always telling us that Americans have become so tired of our “dysfunctional health care system” that we yearn for the government to take it over and fix it.
If that conflicts with what your gut tells you about the American psyche, listen to your innards. According to Gallup, half of us think the government already meddles too much. Gallup asked […]
Occasional commenter WD sent along his analysis of a recent Commonwealth Fund “study,” and it deserves its own post:
One should give credit to the folks at the Commonwealth Fund (CF). The headlines they generate are top-notch: “INSURED BUT POORLY PROTECTED: 25 MILLION ADULTS ARE UNDERINSURED; NUMBER UP 60 PERCENT IN 4 YEARS.”
Their research, on the other hand…well, let’s look at […]
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 […]
The establishment media ignored it, presumably because its findings didn’t fit the party line, but a recent Gallup survey showed that a majority of Americans are satisfied with the quality of their health care. In fact, as the following table shows, the percentage of people saying their care is “excellent” or “good” has actually increased from 80% to 83% […]
As I pointed out yesterday, the Harvard longevity study was bound to produce some tendentious responses. But I must say that even I was not prepared for anything as dumb as this post from AmericaBlog:
Another proud legacy of the Bush administration, news you’d probably expect to hear from developing nations, not the United States of America in the […]
A new Harvard study shows that life expectancy in the U.S. has risen for both men and women. Per the WSJ:
Men nationally saw life expectancy rise 3.1 years to 74.1 years … Women nationally saw life expectancy rise by 1.28 years from 1983 to 1999, to about 79.6 years.
But that’s not what you’ll be reading about during […]
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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 […]
As I mentioned a few days ago, the advocates of government-run health care love to quote World Health Organization statistics. They are particularly fond of referencing “World Health Report 2000,” which purports to rank the health care systems of 191 nations.
Glen Whitman of the Cato Institute has written an excellent analysis of the methods used by the WHO to produce that report, […]
Last Fall, I linked to a post by Jeff Goldsmith in which he issued the following complaint:
Good news about our health system … has become politically incorrect in a climate of Job’s Daughter handwringing and crisis mongering.
Anyone doubting the accuracy of Goldsmith’s assertion can find a classic example of the phenomenon in a recent USA Today article containing great news […]
Single-payer zealots Steffie Woolhandler, David Himmelstein, et al, have produced a study confirming the blindingly obvious fact that ER wait times are increasing. From 1997 to 2004, the median wait to see an ER doctor went from 22 minutes to 30 minutes. For heart attack victims, the median wait jumped from 8 to 20 minutes.
None of this will come as the […]
