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Monthly Archives: May 2009
Correcting the Denver Post on the health care “affordability act”
The II’s Linda Gorman keeps the Post reporters on their toes in this post for National Review’s Media Malpractice blog: The Denver Post’s Tim Hoover and Jennifer Brown have done a disservice to their readers with their weakly reported April … Continue reading
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Tagged Colorado HB 1293, Colorado health care, Linda Gorman
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Does the U.S. spend too much on health care?
Critics of medical care in the U.S. often claim that it costs too much compared to other countries, which have more government involvement than in the U.S. They use this to justify yet more government involvement in the medical choices … Continue reading
Physicians who do not see Medicare and Medicaid patients
Medical internist and Professor of Medicine Mark Siegel in the Wall Street Journal: Here’s something that has gotten lost in the drive to institute universal health insurance: Health insurance doesn’t automatically lead to health care. And with more and more … Continue reading
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Tagged coverage is not care, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare access
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Why free-market advocates are not persuasive
Says David Catron: While conservatives talk about the insurance market, the Left talks about “covering the children.” While conservatives talk about socialized medicine, the Left talks about “the uninsured.” In other words, conservatives yammer about concepts while the Left talks about people. That’s why … Continue reading
Medical care and the ability to pay
The following passage from Virginia Postrel’s recent article in The Atlantic gets to a central premise, too rarely debated, about health care policy (emphasis added): allowing patients to buy drugs to be administered within the NHS would threaten the system’s … Continue reading