This is a title of an excellent essay by Jared Rhodes about how people think it's OK for a government-run insurance plan to compete with commercial insurers. An excerpt:
Private insurers compete with each other to provide the best product they can on the market. Their costs are based on the ...
A scary video showing that the proponents of the "public" medical insurance plan see this as a means to establishing a monopoly on medical insurance. I'd like to see this video go "viral." If you would too, take a moment to help make it happen!
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It's not enough to know how government meddling in medical insurance markets and medical care has driven up costs and leaves us vulnerable to huge medical costs. You have to present it right. Political consultant Frank Luntz has some suggestions, as reported in Politico. Some points that I liked when ...
Talk about unhealthy competition. From Heritage:
A new study released today by the Lewin Group, one of the most well-respected health care consultancies in Washington, gives new estimates on “The Cost and Coverage Impacts of a Public Plan” like the one being considered by President Obama and the congressional leadership. The ...
If you care about affordable, accessible, and quality health care in the United States, please read and sign the Do No Harm Petition from the Galen Institute:
The Hippocratic Oath Taken by All Doctors: "First, do no harm"
Politicians, policymakers and public officials should take the same oath:
DO NO HARM TO AMERICA'S ...
What if someone had a great idea for a better mousetrap, but insisted that it be a "public mousetrap" funded by taxpayers? Would you believe that it's better, or would you suspect that the inventor had an agenda beyond creating a better product?
Frank Clemente at the Institute for America's Future ...
