Pajamas Media has published my article on health care exploitation. It begins:
Scratch a health care “reformer” and you’re likely to find a health care exploiter. As ObamaCare’s provisions and taxes begin and resistance builds through lawsuits and state-level measures, it’s important to see the exploitative motives driving increased political control of your medical care. ...
Apparently Barack Obama does not know what health insurance is. Neither do most people, and this is a core problem with health care in the U.S. Back in February at the health care summit, President Obama said:
Look, if I'm a self-employed person who right now can't get coverage or ...
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 ...
David Catron at Health Care BS quotes Florida Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz on whether ObamaCare authorizes government to require citizens to buy health insurance:
We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance … What we’re doing is that you will be in a different tax ...
A challenge to the common wisdom from the National Center for Policy Analysis:
A study claiming that more than half of all bankruptcies are caused by medical debt [54] is often cited, but the claim conflicts with four decades of economic research. The label "medical bankruptcy" was applied ...
Colorado politicians forbid citizens from buying more affordable insurance available in other states. Ed Sealover reports in the Denver Business Journal:
Colorado Republicans' top health-care bill is coming before a House committee today. But don't expect you'll ever hear about it again this year.
HB 1163, sponsored by Rep. Cindy Acree, R-Aurora, ...
Ronald Bailey at Reason reports on a new study that says medical innovation increases life expectancy, not spending. Some excerpts:
Columbia University economist Frank Lichtenberg published a new study that suggests advanced medical technologies are not contributing all that much toward rising U.S. health care expenditures. ...
Lichtenberg's key finding is that ...
Pajamas Media published my article today:
Health Insurers’ ‘Sins’ Don’t Justify Reform
Are health insurance companies evil? A web search for the phrase turns up almost a million hits. The common reasons for this passionate indictment are insurance company profits, denial of claims, and rescission of policies. But these do not justify ...
From the Denver Post:
A new state law makes some forms of preventative health care more affordable to people who are insured in Colorado.
The law, which took effect Friday, assures that services such as screenings for breast and cervical cancer, cholesterol levels and colorectal cancer; childhood immunizations and flu vaccines; and ...
Says John Graham at the Pacific Research Institute in a new study:
Medicare Advantage ... allows consumers to get their benefits through private insurance plans. Under the Senate Health Care bill, the Medicare Advantage program, would be cut by about $118 billion.
“In a very narrow sense, Medicare Advantage plans cost more ...
