Health Care Innovation0

• HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
• October 8, 2009

Dr. Keith Smith is a proud capitalist. The anesthesiologist often helps poor patients obtain surgeries at no cost while managing to keep his Oklahoma-based practice afloat.

Pay Your Own Doctors0

• HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
• October 6, 2009

What was the total cost of your last doctor’s visit? If you’re like most Americans, you have no idea, because somebody else is paying most of the bill.

Patients directly pay only about 14 percent of medical bills. The rest comes from insurance or government. This is the fundamental reason why health costs have skyrocketed. Patients have little incentive to monitor costs and look for good value, and sending routine expenses through third parties adds paperwork and administrative costs.

Canada's Health Care 'Refugees'0

• HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
• October 1, 2009

Sometimes, patriotism can be awkward. Especially when it means admitting to an international TV audience that your nation’s broken health care system forced you onto welfare, into adult diapers, and hobbling with a walker. And all before the age of 30.

Health Care Is Not a Privilege … Nor Is It a Right0

• HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
• September 8, 2009

A popular but flawed argument is that “health care is a right, not a privilege.” Health care is neither a right nor a privilege. Rather, we all have the right to seek medical treatment through voluntary trade or charity.

Whose Business is Your Health Care?0

• HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
• September 4, 2009

Our ongoing debate about government’s role in health care is proving worthwhile because it forces people to focus on the real tradeoffs in a system mandated — if not directly operated — by government, rather than one selected by individuals or their employers. Today, our system is a dysfunctional hybrid.

Michael Bennet Should Oppose Democrat Health “Reform”0

• HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
• August 17, 2009

Senator Michael Bennet says that “health care reform must shift control from insurance companies to doctors, nurses and their patients.” If so, he should oppose the Democrats’ so-called health care “reform.” Insurance companies have too much control because politicians have handed it to them through tax laws that give preferential treatment to employer-provided insurance.