Category Archives: myths & fallacies

Myths and fallacies about medical care and health care policy

Why Cato’s Michael Cannon has boycotted PolitiFact:

Why PolitiFact’s claims are not always factual. Continue reading

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How many are uninsurable because of pre-existing conditions?

An HHS study says 1% of Americans have been denied coverage because of a pre-existing conditions. Economists conclude that less than 1% of the population is uninsurable. The individual market pools risks well, and that allowing insurers to risk-rate premiums would encourage innovative products like health status insurance. Continue reading

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ObamaCare Repeal Won’t Add to the Deficit

How, then, does the ObamaCare health control law magically convert $1 trillion in new spending into painless deficit reduction? It’s all about budget gimmicks, deceptive accounting, and implausible assumptions used to create the false impression of fiscal discipline. Continue reading

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Colorado Consumer Health Initiative misleads again

It’s been illegal to drop coverage when someone gets sick since 1997. The 2010 health control bill did not change this, despite what Dede de Percin of the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative says. Continue reading

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Mandatory insurance vs. personal responsibility

Mandatory insurance is not about “personal responsibility.” It’s about forcing you to pay for others’ medical care by making you to buy more insurance than you’d like. If those who use the “responsibility” argument were honest, they’d want to repeal Medicaid & other government programs that force one person to finance the medical care of others. Continue reading

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Workers, not employers, bear the (full) cost of health benefits

Many workers believe they pay one part of their health insurance premium, and their employer pays the rest. But that’s not how it works. Really, you pay the full cost of your health benefits. Continue reading

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Make a word meaningless: add “social” in front of it!

Michael Cannon at the Cato Institute makes a great point: [HuffPo blogger Jesse Larner writes that] “Cannon is not in favor of universal coverage as a social right.” True, that.  “As a libertarian, he doesn’t even recognize the concept of … Continue reading

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“Health care” differs from “medical care”

Thomas Sowell makes an excellent point: … Even in matters of life and death, too many people accept words instead of thinking, leaving themselves wide open to people who are clever at spinning words. The whole controversy about “health care … Continue reading

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It’s Not Health Care ‘Reform’; It’s Exploitation

Scratch a health care “reformer” and you’re likely to find a health care exploiter. To stop health care exploitation we must address the root issue: the nature of rights and the purpose of government. Continue reading

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Does Obama know what health insurance is?

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 … Continue reading

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