Monthly Archives: December 2011

U.S. health care: Do We Really Spend More and Get Less?

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Brian Schwartz

Spending computations are inaccurate. [T]here is another way to assess the cost of health care. We can count up the real resources being used. … doctors per capita, more hospital beds, etc.,… On this score, the United States looks really good. Continue reading →

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ObamaCare’s Preventive-Care Subsidies: Neither Free nor Cost-Effective | Cato @ Liberty

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Brian Schwartz

Read Michael Cannon‘s post ObamaCare’s Preventive-Care Subsidies: Neither Free nor Cost-Effective | Cato @ Liberty. Similar Posts: Michael Bennet: “free preventive care for everyone”! Not. SCHIP director: SCHIP lacks “actual evidence of the benefits for children” Governors Implementing ObamaCare Are … Continue reading →

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Newt Gingrich’s Serial Hypocrisy

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Brian Schwartz

Newt Gingrich is guilty of serial hypocrisy. Continue reading →

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Newt Gingrich’s big government health care “reform”

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Brian Schwartz

“[Newt] is … a supporter of insurance mandates, and it has lately come to light that he endorsed stepped-up end-of-life counseling. Combined with those afflictions, Gingrich’s praise of [Donald] Berwick will send his health care credibility straight to Forest Lawn.” Continue reading →

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Screening for Terrorists vs. Screening for Cancer

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Brian Schwartz

Our government currently tells air travelers, “Submit to our screening despite the dubious effectiveness, bodily invasion, and needless emotional distress” while simultaneously telling patients, “Don’t undergo cancer screening because it might lead to further bodily invasion and emotional distress.” Continue reading →

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Health care & the myth of United States’ poor life expectancy

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Brian Schwartz

If you really want to compare medical care outcomes in different countries, just looking at life expectancy is wrong. The best way to do it is [to measure survival rates and longevity] at the point of medical intervention. Continue reading →

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“Thanks Obamacare” for special-interest politics & higher insurance premiums

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Brian Schwartz

Progress Now and the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative “thank Obamacare” for a mandate that violates the rights of insurers and employers to trade freely. It also increases insurance premiums. Continue reading →

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The “Essential Health Benefits Package”: disease constituencies clamor to make it huge

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Brian Schwartz

Paul Hsieh, MD describes how interest groups are clamoring to have government require all legal health plans include certain mandated benefits, hence driving up the costs of the most basic health plans and requiring you to buy a plan with benefits you may neither want or need. Continue reading →

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