Mass. health costs still soar, NY Times spreads fallacy about fee-for-service health care
The fundamental problem in health care is not that we are using too much of one payment mechanism (e.g. fee-for-service) and too little of another. The problem is that the person who benefits from the service is not the same as the person who pays the bill. Continue reading
Thank U.S. medical care for extending Steve Jobs’ life
Had Jobs been under the care of the British National Health Service (NHS) or the Canadian Medicare system, he almost certainly would have died two years earlier. That would have been a major loss for the world, by anyone’s reckoning. Continue reading
Why Medicare & Medicaid fraud dwarfs commercial endevours
” Politicians are spending other people’s money, so their incentive to prevent fraud is far less. Therefore, fraud will always be higher in government programs than in similar market endeavors.” Continue reading
Fallacy watch: containing health care spending vs. health care costs
Don’t confuse controlling health care costs with controlling spending. A government health plan can contain spending by refusing to pay for life-saving treatments, but this would impose great costs. Continue reading
Private health exchange to compete with politically-run government exchanges
Bloom health offers a “nationwide private insurance exchange and defined contribution solution for employers” that offers “an alternative to the state insurance exchanges” Continue reading
The Entitlement State Is Morally Bankrupt
“The problem with the entitlement state is not simply that it is bankrupting this country–the problem is that it is morally bankrupt.” Continue reading
Promises that ObamaCare has broken and will Break
Large insurance premium increases is “the latest ObamaCare prediction that has failed to materialize.” If the history of state and federal health care reforms is any guide, it won’t be the last. Continue reading
How politicians destroy entreneurship & beneficial profit-seeking
“[Y]ou can almost guarantee there will be no entrepreneurship if you do two things: (a) eliminate all possibility of getting rich, and (b) make it impossible to change anything without the approval of an intractable bureaucracy” Continue reading
The Best Jobs Program? Full Repeal Of ObamaCare
“The president may never admit it, but the best jobs program out there is the repeal of ObamaCare.” – Sally Pipes Continue reading
Why You Don’t Have Real Health Insurance
“[H]ave you ever seen a commercial for health insurance that focused on why you actually need health insurance? That is, have you ever seen a health insurance commercial that told you that you need a really good insurer in case you get cancer, heart disease, AIDS, etc.?” John Goodman answers. Continue reading
Guy w/o health plan: Should “society should just let him die?”
W/o government mandates, will “society” let someone die? The real question is “What are YOU going to do about it?” Treating “society” as some super-entity above and beyond the individuals who compose it causes two problems. Continue reading
CO House Republicans block state-run exchange’s grant application
“Colorado House Republicans temporarily have blocked the CO Health Benefit Exchange board from applying for a $22 million grant … to set up the technology infrastructure needed to operate an online health insurance marketplace beginning in 2014” -Den Bus. Journal Continue reading
