Health care “reform” is all politics now

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Grace-Marie Turner cites a couple of good analysis in her National Review blog post: The health overhaul debate is no longer about policy; it’s all politics now. And the tone at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue is becoming increasingly desperate. Politico’s chief political correspondent says it's pretty much now or never. No ...

Government health insurance: a political power grab

Friday, December 26th, 2008

From Paul Starr's The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry (Basic Books, New York. 1982. P. 235). "Whoever provides medical care or pays the costs of illness stands to gain the gratitude and good will of the sick ...

Government health insurance builds state allegiance

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

In his review of John E. Murray's Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds, George C. Leef writes: Murray points to an important subtext in the Progressive case. One reason Bismarck had worked so hard for his system of social insurance in Germany was to make people ...