Pajamas Media has published my article on health care exploitation. It begins:
Scratch a health care “reformer” and you’re likely to find a health care exploiter. As ObamaCare’s provisions and taxes begin and resistance builds through lawsuits and state-level measures, it’s important to see the exploitative motives driving increased political control of your medical care. ...
OK, the Senate passed HR 3590 last week, but Gene Healy at Cato has some great observations:
In [the] Washington Post, E.J. Dionne cursed "the bizarre habits of the Senate," which show that "we are no longer a normal democracy." In a "normal democracy," apparently, you get to ram through a ...
In a recent post on health care, Paul Krugman writes (in his typically obnoxious smug style):
Both George Will and Greg Mankiw basically argue that we don't need a government role because we can trust the market to work -- hey, we do it for groceries, right?
Um, economists have known for ...
Will Obama's proposal for a nation-wide mandate for guaranteed issue insurance decimate insurance companies to the point that government will have to "save the day" with a single-payer monopoly that Obama really wants? Consider this from the Associated Press:
Barack Obama's campaign promise should prove irresistible to the millions of uninsured: ...
...every wealthy country except the United States already has some form of guaranteed health care. ...The politics of guaranteed care are also easy, at least in one sense: if the Democrats do manage to establish a system of universal coverage, the nation will love it. I know that’s not what ...
From a recent debate on universal coverage:
PAUL KRUGMAN:
Actually, can I just — I wanted to ask a question. And—
JOHN DONVAN:
Please—please do—
PAUL KRUGMAN:
—and I wanted to ask, actually two questions, to the audience. First, how many Canadians, would Canadians in the room please raise your hands. [ONE PERSON APPLAUDS, LAUGHTER]
JOHN DONVAN:
We ...
What’s easy about guaranteed health care for all? For one thing, we know that it’s economically feasible: every wealthy country except the United States already has some form of guaranteed health care. - Paul Krugman, August 10, 2008
Many pundits see red at the words "single-payer system." They think it means ...
I like Ted Kennedy's slogan "Medicare for all." It reminds voters that America already has a highly successful, popular single-payer program, albeit only for the elderly. — Paul Krugman, June 13 2005
How "highly successful" is Medicare? Consider the following story from ABC News:
The Houston Chronicle reported last week that more ...
