THe health control legislation [HR 3590] expands Medicaid eligibility. John Goodman explains how Medicaid's denial of coverage are worse than private insurers:
During the year leading up to the final passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the White House set up a special Web site and ...
Look forward to more costly errors at the expense of your tax dollars. The new health control legislation (HR 3590) expands Medicaid eligibility. Linda Gorman points out that Colorado Medicaid's error rate in paying claims is much higher than private insurers. Her reference is the 2009 State of Colorado Statewide ...
In the American Spectator David Catron points out a disturbing quote from Medicare & Medicaid Services head Donald Berwick is.
Berwick's view of rationing is, in fact, the opposite of [Paul] Ryan's. The latter believes it should be driven by the informed decisions of consumers ...
Is it possible for health care to be both something you're entitled to and an individual responsibility? I think not. If you're "entitled" to health care, then other people are responsible for providing it to you. But if you are individually responsible for "payment of health care costs," then it's ...
Mothers Against Debt has a memorable video on how the U.S. government's debt shackles future generations:
The health control legislation (HR 3590) will also increase the deficit. Here's a chart from the recent article by Veronique de Rugy in Reason magazine, Our Unsustainable Debt:
Should we expect more of this if politicians expand government-run health programs? From CNN:
When you think of low-paying jobs, doctor doesn't usually come to mind.But with a 21% cut in Medicare payments slated to take effect later this month, physicians who say they are making an OK living ...
Keith Hennessey reviews the disagreement between Paul Krugman (on one side) and Rep. Paul Ryan, New Gingrich, and John Goodman (on the other) about how to change Medicare so it does not bankrupt the country. How much is Medicare spending? Consider what Hennessey points out:
The policy reality is that if ...
Last week the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Newt Gingrich and John Goodman titled "Ten GOP Health Ideas for Obama." John Goodman is a great resource on health care policy, and I read his blog regularly. But this article is one example of how Republicans (given the article's ...
Dr. Paul Hsieh points out some scary aspects of the House health bill (HR 3962) and the Senate health bill (HR 3590):
Under ObamaCare, patients will be forced to pay for certain kinds of medical care whether they want it or not — thus raising their health care costs.
And patients ...
A Wall Street Journal editorial summarizes:
[Harry Reid] is claiming that a Medicare "buy-in" for people from ages 55 to 64 has overcome the liberal-moderate impasse over the "public option." But if anything, this gambit is an even faster road to government-run health care. ...
Mr. Reid's buy-in simply cuts out the ...
