Advocates of government-run health care incessantly tell us that millions of Americans are financially unable to acquire health insurance. The WSJ debunks this and other canards:
The notion that there are 46 million Americans who can’t get the health care they need for lack of money or public assistance is a myth.
Who says it’s a myth? Some VRWC publication run by evil […]
David Hogberg looks at this question in the American Spectator, and finds that the answer isn’t as easily discerned as some would have us believe.
Health outcomes are affected by many factors, including income, education level, smoking, and diet. Those factors also affect insurance status, making it difficult to discern the exact effect lack of insurance […]
When “the uninsured crisis” is covered in the news media, the stories always insinuate that vast hordes of people are doing without coverage because they can’t afford it. The reality is, however, quite different.
In fact, as Devon Herrick of the National Center for Policy Analysis points out, the fastest-growing segment of the uninsured population has been upper-income […]
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Posted 15 September 2008
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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 […]
According to the Census Bureau, the number of uninsured Americans declined significantly in 2007. As David Hogberg reports in Investor’s Business Daily:
The number of uninsured fell to 45.7 million last year from 47 million in 2006, largely due to expanded government coverage. That’s 15.3% of the population, down from 15.8%.
But the advocates of government-run health care […]
Barack Obama often says, ”the reason people don’t have health insurance isn’t because they don’t want it, it’s because they can’t afford it.” He is right in this. Unfortunately, like the rest of his Democrat brethren, he has offered no plausible plan for reducing health insurance premiums.
One of the most significant contributors to the high cost of health […]
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 […]
According to the LA Times, a lot of people are getting married to secure insurance coverage:
Some people marry for love, some for companionship, and others for status or money. Now comes another reason to get hitched: health insurance.
Yep. That Blue Cross card is quite the babe magnet:
In a poll released today, 7% of Americans said […]
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Posted 11 May 2008
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In addition to their afinity for phony surveys and fudged statistics, advocates of government-run health care are also fond of gratuitous assertions wholly unsupported by objective data. A classic example can be found in this AP article about child abuse and neglect:
The neglect cases include situations in which medical professionals conclude that a child got sick or didn’t […]
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Posted 04 April 2008
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The advocates of government-run health care supplement their thin repertoire of legitimate arguments with a series of canards that they hope will be accepted as facts. Sally Pipes debunks five of these myths in The Washington Times:
I. 47 million Americans do not have insurance.
The [Census] Bureau counts anyone who went without insurance for any part of […]
