Land O’Lakes employees happy with consumer-directed insurance

Friday, February 19th, 2010

The president and CEO of Land O'Lakes says: Offering consumer-driven health plans to Land O’Lakes employees is helping to keep health care costs in check, while maintaining or improving care quality. For Land O’Lakes, this approach supports our commitment to employees, while at the same time ensuring that we remain highly ...

Get a medical lab test w/o a doctor or insurance

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

With politicians trying to force everyone to pay for medical care through insurance, and pay for insurance through their employer, it's nice to see a development where the patient can still be the customer.  A couple of weeks ago Scripps News reported: As Americans struggle to take charge of their health ...

Colorado ballot inititiative to block parts of Obama Care

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Update: Become a fan of this cause on on the Defend Colorado from ObamaCare Facebook page. From the Denver Post: Coloradans will likely be asked in November to blunt the impact of federal health-insurance reform with a state constitutional amendment that would attempt to undo some of what Congress is trying to ...

Free-markets: how to fix health care

Monday, December 14th, 2009

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 ...

Bizarro Health Care ‘Reform’: Expect Less, Pay More

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Pajamas Media was kind enough to publish my article about the Democrats' "Bizarro" health care reform. Here's the first few paragraphs: Expect less, pay more. It’s not the slogan for some “Bizarro World” Target store in a comic book; it’s an accurate slogan for congressional Democrats’ health care “reform” proposals. They ...

Health care without insurance, & know the price

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

(Originally posted on John Goodman's Health Policy Blog) Although Canadian health care is supposedly free, each year thousands of Canadians come to the United States instead. Many have spent so long waiting for care in Canada that they will pay out of pocket for US care in order to escape suffering ...

Paying for your own medical care

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

The success of HSA-qualified plans and evidence from the RAND health insurance experiment show how patients are prudent consumers of medical care when they spend their own money, rather than an insurance company. Ari Armstrong relates his personal experience in a recent article: Not only does my doctor knowledgeably answer all ...