Monday, November 10th, 2008
This video at Reason.tv suggests that many people who lack health insurance can afford it, but choose not to.
From Reason.tv:
“Of people currently classified as uninsured, a conservative estimate says about 45 percent of them would be able to get health insurance right now if they wanted it,” says economist Glen ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Continued from Part 5.
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Topics:
Competition has begun to improve America's health care. Example, laser eye surgeons, cosmetic surgeons. Costs decreases, quality increases. Patients pay doctors directly.
Medical clinics staffed by nurse practioners. Inexpensive routine care. E.g., RediClinic, MinuteClinic.
Doctors who do not accept insurance. E.g., Patmos EmergiClinic. Uninsured patients save money, providers keep ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
On buying health insurance directly from an insurance company instead of through one's employer, ABC News Medical Editor Dr. Tim Johnson states:
The idea that individuals are going to have enough knowledge and enough savvy and enough insight and, frankly, enough guts to make choices all by themselves is pretty much ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Continued from Part 4.
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Topics:
High deductibles are good. Whole Foods example. Whole Foods contributes to employees' Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), which accumulates and grows over time. (Speech my Whole Foods CEO on this topic.
Do HSAs discourage patients from getting preventive care? Many policies cover preventive care, and it gives patients ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Continued from Part 3.
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Topics:
Is "greed" the problem? Should medicine be about profit? Michael Moore: "Get the profit out. Get the private health insurance company out of there."
Regina Herzlinger: Henry Ford cut the price of cars by half. There are Henry Fords of health care. Less incentive to innovate without ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
"People not profits." You might hear this in discussions over health care and emergency situations. Ask these people to check out the success of Jeff Ellis and Associates, International Aquatic Safety and Risk Management Consultants. In July they hosted their annual Lifeguard Challenge. An Ellis employee describes it:
Our goal with ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Our government prohibits the sale of human organs, which has resulted in a shortage. Drew Carey's video shows the awful consequences of this:
Not all government officials are as closed-minded to freedom on organ sales. For example, as Bryan Caplan notes, the Health Minister of Singapore said that: "We should not ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
Continued from Part 2.
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Topics:
Is "free" medical care in France, Germany, Britain, and Canada is really wonderful?
When products are free at the point of service, demand goes through the roof. People pay by waiting.
England: 18 week wait for hospital care, people lined about around the block for dental care, or pull teeth themselves. "Don't wash the sheets, ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
Continued from Part 1.
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Topics:
pre-existing conditions
Michael Moore on why insurers deny care (Moore did not confront insurance executives about this.)
Stossel's interview with an executive (Karen Ignagni, America's Health Insurance Plans)
claims denial rate, consumer satisfaction with coverage (sites a NY Times/CBS Poll, 87%),
prevalence of insurance fraud, bad incentives of insurance
What if car insurance covered ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Here is first of six segments from John Stossel's 20/20 Special, Sick in America. If you don't know much about health care policy, this is a great place to start, or to recommend to others (while noting, if appropriate, that Stossel has an explicit pro-freedom point of view).
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