Archive for the ‘myths & fallacies’ Category
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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Friday, June 6th, 2008
"Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, noted that the United States invests more on health care than any country, but that its health care system ranks 37th." - Denver Post, April 29 2008
A Google search reveals that many people quote this World Health ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Addition to Tuesday's post on medical care in the Czech Republic:
An intriguing part of Sunday's New York Times article about medical care in the Czech Republic was a quote by Harvard's Marc J. Roberts, included in the excerpt below:
But many Czechs see it as a matter of principle that health ...
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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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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
The big lie behind pushing politician-controlled health care is: that the United States has a free-market in health care, and that it's to blame for costs of medical care and insurance being so hight. AFL-CIO executives John Sweeney and Mike Cerbo perpetuate this in a commentary in Thursday's Denver ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Do advances in medical technology drive up insurance premiums? If so, why don't advances in technology increase costs of other products?
Last Thursday the Rocky Mountain News reported that "Employers' health insurance costs this year have climbed 12 percent above 2007 levels in Colorado and Wyoming." The article paraphrases Jim Hertel, ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Update to: Is being uninsured a fatal disease?
Linda Gorman has once again taken Families USA to task for their bogus research. Last week it was about their claims of Medicaid "cuts." Most recently, her post at StateHouseCall.org debunks their "Dying For Coverage" articles, which make claims on how many ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
When is it OK for someone to confiscate $400 from you each year, and claim that it's the moral thing to do, because it saves you $85? Typically such scam artists would end up in prison. But in this case, the perpetrators are Colorado politicians and the backers of Senate ...
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