Archive for the ‘morality’ Category
Monday, July 21st, 2008
Summary: The best defense of Health Savings Accounts is not that they promote wise spending and bring costs down. It's that they are a step toward a more ethical tax policy.
Conservatives, Republicans, and free-market advocates often tout Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) as a means of controlling costs. Yet, critics of HSAs will ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Socialist politician Aneurin Bevan, father of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS), has stated that “everyone should be treated alike in the matter of medical care" and that "the essence of a satisfactory health service is that rich and poor are treated alike, that poverty is not a disability and wealth ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
In honor of Independence Day, it is appropriate for today's post to concern the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson. After all, Patient Power is the health care blog of the Independence Institute.
Via a web search, one of the first pages I found was from RightToHealthCare.org, which attempts ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Problem: Doctors may stop seeing Medicare patients because the reimbursement rates are so low.
The solution? At least one blog commenter wants to make Medicare the only game in town so doctors either put up or shut up.
Bloomberg News reports:
James King, a doctor in Selmer, Tenn., doesn’t take new Medicare patients. More ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
In a previous post I challenged the notion that medical care is like services we receive from the fire department — a flawed analogy to justify politician-controlled single-payer health care. In it I claim that a more accurate analogy is that medical insurance is like homeowners or renters insurance.
Colorado single-payer advocate ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Last week I challenged the view that health care should be a government service because it is allegedly like police protection. A similar analogy is to the fire department. Advocating single-payer health care, Michael Moore tells NPR:
That you should not have a private, profit-making insurance company in the middle between ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
"Profit is a perverse incentive for quality health care: imagine for-profit fire or police protection," writes Michelle Swenson in support of single-payer health care. Louise at Colorado Health Insurance Insider has made the same comparison. Most notably, Michael Moore has also.
In this post I'll address the police analogy. (I address ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
To:
Stephen Kapanos, Vice President Public Policy & Advocacy
Bill Lindsay and Penfield Tate, Health Care Committee, Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce
Elisabeth Arenales, Esq., Director, Health Care Program, Colorado Center on Law and Policy
Mental Health America of Colorado, Colorado Center on Law and Policy, and the Denver Metro Chamber of ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Continuation of my critique of the AFL-CIO commentary here and here.
In their Denver Post commentary, AFL-CIO executives John Sweeney and Mike Cerbo say that Hillary and Obama are correct to be
skeptical of the idea that the market is the right entity to put in charge.
Are they saying that the ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
In 1946, Ayn Rand wrote a letter to Leonard Read concerning his proposal to establish the Foundation for Economic Education .1 In the letter she explained the importance of making the moral argument for free markets, rather than using arguments from economics and leaving the moral high ground to the ...
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