HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds - Independence Institute

For health policy that works, look at the evidence 0
- May 30, 2018
When a policy generating a lot of fame and fortune starts to go wrong, the temptation to ignore new data can be irresistible. For over 50 years, mainstream U.S. health policy makers have promoted research supporting Kenneth Arrow’s 1963 assertion that “it is the general social consensus, clearly, that the laissez-faire solution for medicine is
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Proposed health transparency bills bad medicine for Colorado 0
- May 1, 2018
Maybe Colorado legislators can explain how the heavy cost of their transparency bills will improve Obamacare insurance rules, Medicare pricing, the FDA review process, and the Hatch-Waxman Act corruption of normal patent law.
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Obama is gone, but his fiscal waste is still befouling American health care 0
- April 3, 2018
For real health care waste, it is hard to beat the Obama administration. Crony capitalists, academic institutions, select nonprofits, and state bureaucracies are raking in enormous sums. Ordinary Americans are paying the price. If government officials cannot find the courage to return control of health care to patients and their doctors, American health care quality
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It’s time to scrap federal physician quality measurements 0
- January 17, 2018
When ObamaCare passed, ABMS had a virtual monopoly. The Affordable Care Act used the standard tactic of creating market power by listing specific requirements that only the ABMS program could meet. Among other things, “equivalent programs” would have to report patient data to a registry, require periodic exams, and conducting periodic “practice assessments.”
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Medicaid funds shouldn’t be used to subsidize state taxes on health care 0
- December 5, 2017
Medicaid patients are the losers. Studies suggest that higher Medicaid reimbursements are associated with better care, and that Medicaid patients are more likely to be treated by lower quality hospitals and less highly trained physicians. Recent studies also suggest that the health reforms favored by state and federal governments have done little to improve quality or reduce costs.
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Reforming the False Claims Act could improve American health care 0
- October 24, 2017
Plaintiffs allege too little care, too much care, billing errors, record-keeping violations, and differences in opinion about medical necessity.
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