Tag Archives: Tom Daschle

Instead of government comparative-effectiveness research

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

The current lack of comparative-effectiveness research is due more to government failure than to market failure. Federal tax and entitlement policies reduce consumer demand for such research. Those policies, as well as state licensing of health insurance and medical professionals, inhibit the types of health plans best equipped to generate comparative-effectiveness information. Continue reading →

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Your medical records: Will government employees get paid to read them?

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

Amanda Carpenter suggests that it will: Universal healthcare is going to get a big boost from the $825 billion stimulus bill if it passes in current form. $600 million is allocated on page 50 of the bill to double funding … Continue reading →

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Let’s hope Obama-care doesn’t treat us “NICEly”

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

David Catron asks: …do we really deserve a health care system in which soulless bureaucrats arbitrarily put a dollar value on our lives, in which gravely ill patients are allowed to die because treatment costs too much? Do we really … Continue reading →

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Tom Daschle’s High Court of Health

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

In the Washington Times, Robert Moffit sums up the implications of Daschle’s proposed Federal Health Board: “Details kill.” That’s Tom Daschle, President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee for secretary of health and human services and the nation’s new “health-care czar,” explaining to … Continue reading →

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Model Federal Health Board on UK’s “NICE”?

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

Who decides? … In health care, the question is whether you, together with your doctor, will make your most personal and important health care decisions, or whether the government will make them for you. Government-run national health care systems are … Continue reading →

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Federal Health Board could extend government-controlled insurance

Posted on January 2, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

Tom Daschle’s proposed Federal Health Board could regulate health insurance companies such that they are effectively all selling the same government-controlled product.  Consider the following from Robert E. Moffit: While the health board decisions would initially affect enrollees in government … Continue reading →

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Pay for Performance Perils

Posted on December 31, 2008 by Brian Schwartz

Last year’s Senate Bill 217‘s (enacted in June ’08) would have “value benefit plans” that would “encourage the use of a pay-for-performance system for reimbursing health care providers, where appropriate.”  Barack Obama’s health care czar Tom Daschle  has written that … Continue reading →

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Tom Daschle wants a “Federal Reserve for Health Care”

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Brian Schwartz

The AP reports that “former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has accepted President-elect Barack Obama’s offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.”  Check out Michael Cannon‘s comments on Daschle’s health care reform proposals: Daschle and others propose that … Continue reading →

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