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Monthly Archives: June 2009
You trust this bumbling government with your health care?
Check out this great letter to the editor by Michelle Ciletti in last week’s Denver Post. It’s in response to a news article that begins: Colorado’s most powerful charitable foundations have spent millions to feed hungry people this year — … Continue reading
What the Failure of the “Massachusetts Model” Tells Us about Health Care Reform
Michael Tanner at Cato has a new briefing paper: Massachusetts Miracle or Massachusetts Miserable: What the Failure of the “Massachusetts Model” Tells Us about Health Care Reform Here’s the summary: When Massachusetts passed its pioneering health care reforms in 2006, … Continue reading
Health care costs and health insurance
Direct-purchase insurance is when the patient buys it directly from the insurance company, rather than through an employer. How can this help bring down the cost of medical care? Linda Gorman explains in her latest article at the Library of … Continue reading
Obama: “Public health plan” would “keep insurance companies honest”
According to the USA Today, president Obama said the government-run & tax-subsidized “public health insurance option” would “keep insurance companies honest.” He’s not talking about fraud and current laws against it. The idea here, I suppose, is that competition would … Continue reading
“Public” health plan: force is not competition
This is a title of an excellent essay by Jared Rhodes about how people think it’s OK for a government-run insurance plan to compete with commercial insurers. An excerpt: Private insurers compete with each other to provide the best product … Continue reading
Tough luck for the poor in Massachusetts
From the New York Times: The difficulties in receiving care were severest among low-income residents, who have gained the most from expanded access under the state’s law, passed in 2006. It requires most residents to have health insurance and provides … Continue reading
Fee-for-service and medical quality
Michael Cannon speaks on how the fee-for-service method of paying for medical care provides poor incentives for medical quality. As he writes here, Rather than allow a level playing field for all payment systems, so that competition forces them all … Continue reading
Will medical insurance industry hang itself?
Insurance industry representative Karen Ignagni correctly fears that the “government-run insurance plan that Obama supports … would put private insurers out of business.” (Denver Post, May 24) This is why supporters of single-payer medicine like it — it’s an incremental … Continue reading