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 ...
Adapted from: http://www.patientpowernow.org/tag/persuasion
Arguing for free-market medicine and medical insurance:
Democrat politicians claim to want "reform," but the policies they advocate would actually entrench bad parts of the status quo. Real reform would be toward free-markets in medical care and insurance.
Patients, physicians, and insurance companies have the right to relate to ...
Continued from Part 1.
Topics:
pre-existing conditions
Michael Moore on why insurers deny care (Moore did not confront insurance executives about this.)
Stossel's interview with an executive (Karen Ignagni, America's Health Insurance Plans)
claims denial rate, consumer satisfaction with coverage (sites a NY Times/CBS Poll, 87%),
prevalence of insurance fraud, bad incentives of insurance
What if car insurance covered oil ...
Who would support a self-serving political agenda at the expense of your health, wealth, and job mobility? AFL-CIO president John Sweeney and Colorado executive director Mike Cerbo.
In a recent Denver Post commentary, they perpetuate the big lie behind politician-controlled medicine: "that the free market is not working," and that consequently, ...
