John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis has an excellent column abut health care innovation. He summarizes:
Wherever there is third-party payment [insurance, a health plan, Medicare, Medicaid], the goal of innovation is to produce more products that qualify for reimbursement, even if the effects on patient ...
The Daily Camera asked its editorial advisory board members their view of ObamaCare, formally HR 3590. My response was published in the March 27 edition:
ObamaCare is a scam. It further empowers politicians to dictate how you seek medical care and support charities. Politicians should ...
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Here's a summary of arguments against so-called health care "reform," specifically, the Senate Bill, HR 3590. It might be useful when contacting a member of Congress (e.g., those on the fence). The bracketed numbers refer to the reference ...
Last week the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Newt Gingrich and John Goodman titled "Ten GOP Health Ideas for Obama." John Goodman is a great resource on health care policy, and I read his blog regularly. But this article is one example of how Republicans (given the article's ...
From Reason.tv:
Make no mistake about it. Health care reform is coming. But what's the best way to fix our health care system, which is an inefficient, complicated mess of private actors, third-party payers, public subsidies, and innumerable state and federal regulations? Should we place our faith in the government or in ...
Economist David R. Henderson will be speaking at Metro State College in Denver on Monday in a Pikes Peak Economics Club event.
Title: What Health Economists Know that Obama Does Not Want You to Know
Location: Auraria Campus at the Tivoli Room 640
Time: 10 AM - noon.
Event details and bio of Dr. ...
This is the title of the new pamphlet by David Gratzer, MD, author of The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care. It's a brief and powerful summary of what's wrong with Democrat politicians' proposals to "reform" health care with more political meddling with how we buy insurance and ...
Ari and Linn Armstrong summarize a few of myths, lies, and distortions about ObamaCare in their latest column in the Grand Junction Free Press:
Myth No. 1: Opponents of Obamacare are the ones creating myths.
Myth No. 2: Opponents of Obamacare are "anti-health care reform."
Myth No. 3: Opponents of Obamacare are criminals, ...
Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute summarizes the case for free-market health care. He concludes:
The solution to this ongoing crisis is to recognize that the very idea of a “right” to health care is a perversion. There can be no such thing as a “right” to products or services ...
So says Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute in a recent Investor's Business Daily op-ed:
Let individuals control their health care dollars, and free them to choose from a wide variety of health plans and providers. If Congress takes those steps, innovation and market competition will make health care better, more ...
