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 ...
Writes George Will:
Progressives are forever longing to replace the governance of people by the administration of things. Because they are entirely public-spirited, progressives volunteer to be the administrators, and to be as disinterested as the dickens. ...
Professor Obama, who will seek reelection on the 100th anniversary of ...
Colorado SB 061 is a case of what is seen and what is not unseen. What is seen: fewer denied insurance claims (probably). What is not seen: increased insurance premiums and more people who cannot afford insurance.
The bill summary states:
For purposes of workers' compensation, property and casualty, and health insurance, ...
Summary: Senator Obama said that if he "were designing a system from scratch, I would probably go ahead with a single-payer system. " This reveals his implicit view of American citizens and the status of citizens under single-payer health care: they are like ingredients and politicians ("designers") are the chefs. It's no surprise that single-payer advocates do not mind or recognize ...
Pushing single-payer politically-controlled health care, Princeton health care economist Uwe Reinhardt says:
"[Americans] act more and more like a people sharing a geography. You don’t have the ethos that goes with being a nation. In Canada, in Taiwan, they view health care as the cement that makes a nation out of a ...
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 ...
