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Mass. health costs still soar, NY Times spreads fallacy about fee-for-service health care

The fundamental problem in health care is not that we are using too much of one payment mechanism (e.g. fee-for-service) and too little of another. The problem is that the person who benefits from the service is not the same as the person who pays the bill. Continue reading

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Health care: Maine moves toward freedom, Vermont toward single-payer authoritarianism

Maine adopts free-market reforms (though they conflict with federal health control bill), while Vermont goes single payer. Continue reading

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Why Cato’s Michael Cannon has boycotted PolitiFact:

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

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Washington Post & CBS Corp. get ObamaCare money

Two mainstream news organizations are receiving hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars from Obamacare’s Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP)
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Denver Post misleads readers about government insurance

I submitted the following letter in response to the Post‘s article by Jennifer Brown that had the headline New Colorado law to help insure 67,500 more: Government insurance programs steal customers from private insurers.  By not mentioning this, the Post … Continue reading

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Isn’t it already illegal to drop coverage?

I just sent the following e-mail to Janet Adamy, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal: Dear Ms. Adamy, You’ve mentioned that under Senate BIll 3590 would “Insurance companies would no longer be able to cancel enrollees’ policies because they … Continue reading

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Senate health-care bill: insurance premiums soar like a Tiger Woods drive

The CBO predicts higher insurance premiums, but what do supporters say? From the Wall Street Journal: “No Big Cost Rise in U.S. Premiums Is Seen in Study,” said the New York Times, while the Washington Post declared, “Senate Health Bill … Continue reading

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