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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Preventive care – is it worth your time and money?
Health care czar Tom Daschle writes “we can lower costs by focusing more of our energies on prevention.” First, not the collectivist undertone of “we” and “our,” which implies a one-size fits all solution to how people pay for health … Continue reading
Your medical records: Will government employees get paid to read them?
Amanda Carpenter suggests that it will: Universal healthcare is going to get a big boost from the $825 billion stimulus bill if it passes in current form. $600 million is allocated on page 50 of the bill to double funding … Continue reading
The FDA’s Big Bad Wolfe
Charles L. Hooper and David R. Henderson in Forbes: Since Barack Obama was elected, there has been much hopeful talk about addressing this country’s health care problems. Unfortunately, some of the ideas discussed have been bad ones and, therefore, will … Continue reading
Let’s hope Obama-care doesn’t treat us “NICEly”
David Catron asks: …do we really deserve a health care system in which soulless bureaucrats arbitrarily put a dollar value on our lives, in which gravely ill patients are allowed to die because treatment costs too much? Do we really … Continue reading
Australia’s government-run health care is “down under”
From the II’s Linda Gorman: According to the Australian Medical Association, every public hospital in New South Wales is dangerously overcrowded, causing 1,500 unnecessary deaths each year. Patients stack up in corridors and emergency rooms waiting for beds. Hospitals routinely … Continue reading
Posted in coverage isn't care, single payer
Tagged Australia, coverage is not care, Linda Gorman
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GOP’s Mike Coffman supports welfare state
For an example of how Republicans support the welfare state, consider the reasons Congressman Mike Coffman‘s (Colorado, District 6) opposed the expansion of SCHIP, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. From his website: Congressman Coffman cosponsored an alternative plan, the … Continue reading
Where does your health insurance dollar go?
How much profit do they make? According to a recent study by PricewaterhouseCoopers, just 3 cents on the dollar. This is pretty small compared to those in other industries. The profits would be less if there were more competition. That … Continue reading
Posted in insurance, tax code, HSAs, myths & fallacies
Tagged for-profit health care, regulation
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Nanny state expansion passes in House
The U.S. House voted to pass a bill to expand eligibility for the State Health Insurance Program. Having government tax citizens to provide health insurance for kids is great way to build allegiance to the state, and hence an … Continue reading
Tom Daschle’s High Court of Health
In the Washington Times, Robert Moffit sums up the implications of Daschle’s proposed Federal Health Board: “Details kill.” That’s Tom Daschle, President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee for secretary of health and human services and the nation’s new “health-care czar,” explaining to … Continue reading