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Health care updates from Cato Institute
The latest health care commentary by Cato Institute scholars on: Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, mandatory insurance as elitist, unconstitutional, and based on phony justification. Continue reading
Obamacare’s Cruel and Inhumane Inflation-Indexed Vouchers
For some prominent pundits, tax-funded vouchers for “private” insurance are OK when a Democrat proposes it, but not OK when a Republican does. Continue reading
Posted in Policy - National, PPC
Tagged health insurance exchanges, health insurance vouchers, Medicare, Paul Ryan
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Medicare Loses Nearly 4 Times as Much Money as Health Insurers Make
Next time someone decries insurance company profits, remind him that fraud and waste in Medicare and Medicaid far exceed these dollar amounts. Check out Jeffrey Anderson’s article in the Weekly Standard: “Medicare Loses Nearly Four Times as Much Money as Health Insurers Make.” See also my previous post: “Medicare & Medicaid fraud far exceeds insurance company profits.” Continue reading
Posted in Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP, PPC
Tagged for-profit health care, Medicare, Medicare fraud, Medicare waste
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The Road To Socialized Medicine Is Paved With Pre-existing Conditions – The Objectivist – - Forbes
The government takeover of medicine & medical insurance has been an incremental process. At Forbes.com, read about the “general pattern of the expansion [where] advocates point to some group in real or alleged dire need and declare that Washington has a duty to act.” Continue reading
Posted in Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP, Policy - National, PPC
Tagged Ayn Rand, crowd out, EMTALA, Medicaid, Medicare, pre-existing conditions, SCHIP
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Yes, Medicare is an (unsustainable & bankrupt) welfare program
“With Medicare, we are all still making out like bandits, shoving all those costs to future generations,” said [economist Eugene] Steuerle. “At another level, we know that this system is totally unsustainable.” Continue reading
How Medicare vouchers could bypass health care rationing
The debate over which medical treatments Medicare would cover would vanish if instead of running a monopolistic health plan for seniors, government subsidized seniors’ purchase of the insurance plan of their choice. Continue reading
Donald Berwick’s Five-Year Plan v. the iPhone
Paul Howard and David Gratzer, MD write Last month, Apple released its new iPhone, a faster and more powerful version of its ever popular computer-phone. It’s a remarkable device – particularly remarkable given that its machine ancestors were large and … Continue reading
Obama appoints Donald Berwick: Health Care Rationer-in-Chief
From Grace-Marie Turner at National Review (July 7): President Obama is making a huge end-run around the American people with his recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick. “This recess appointment is an insult to the American people,” said Sen. John … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Berwick, Medicaid, Medicare, rationing health care
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Medicare & the government debt ball & chain
Mothers Against Debt has a memorable video on how the U.S. government’s debt shackles future generations: The health control legislation (HR 3590) will also increase the deficit. Here’s a chart from the recent article by Veronique de Rugy in Reason … Continue reading
How much is Medicare costing taxpayers?
Keith Hennessey reviews the disagreement between Paul Krugman (on one side) and Rep. Paul Ryan, New Gingrich, and John Goodman (on the other) about how to change Medicare so it does not bankrupt the country. How much is Medicare spending? … Continue reading
Posted in Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP, PPC
Tagged government spending, Medicare, Medicare Advantage
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