I have written before about the phony studies produced by Steffie Woolhandler and her fellow single-payer zealots at Physicians for a National Health Program. Well, they’re at it again.
This time, they’re claiming that 45,000 Americans die every year due to lack of health insurance. Because these people are “Harvard-based,” many otherwise intelligent people will buy this BS.
Ironically, this […]
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ANOTHER FAUX STUDY FROM THE PNHP CREW
ABOUT THOSE 47 MILLION UNINSURED
IBD’s Ramirez proves, once again, that a picture is worth a thousand words.
The data to which this mordant cartoon refers have been available to the public for quite a while but, as Ed Morrissey points out, the story has been ignored. So, if it’s not 47 milliono, what’s the real number?
The number of Americans uninsured out of necessity […]
UNINSURED BS FROM FAMILIES USA
Ready for more bogus stats about the uninsured? Well, Families USA has got some for you and the “news” media are reporting them just as if they came from a legitimate study:
One out of three Americans under 65 were without health insurance at some point during 2007 and 2008, according to a report released Wednesday.
These “findings” seem curiously at odds with […]
A NEW PRETEXT FOR GOVT-RUN HEALTH CARE
Because their canards about the health care “crisis” and the plight of “the uninsured” have failed to produce results, the advocates of government-run health care have hit upon a new pretext for imposing socialized medicine—-the economic downturn necessitates it. Economist’s View links to a piece by Jonathan Gruber, who makes the following assertion:
As the country slips into what is possibly […]
THE UNINSURED, WHAT ARE THE FACTS?
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 […]
HOW MANY DIE FOR LACK OF INSURANCE?
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 […]
THE FASTEST GROWING SEGMENT OF THE UNINSURED
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 […]
NO INEQUALITY IN U.S. HEALTH SPENDING
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 […]
UNINSURED DIP MEANS WE NEED MORE GOV’T?
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 […]
GENUINE HELP FOR THE UNINSURED
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 […]