Why Obamacares Health Care Cost Controls Won’t Work
At Reason.com, Peter Suderman reviews “Our sad, failed history of technocratic cost controls.” Continue reading
Obamacare’s Rationing by Another Name: The Independent Payment Advisory Board
How the Independent Payment Advisory Board gives sweeping powers to an unelected and unconstitutional board of bureaucrats. Continue reading
US Health Care Spending Since 1960: Patients pay less, insurers & gov’t pay more
“In the past 50 years, the way health care is financed has changed, with private payers and public insurance paying for more care. This interactive graphic shows who paid for the nation’s health care and how much it cost.”
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US Health Care Spending Since 1960: Patients pay less, insurers & gov’t pay more
“In the past 50 years, the way health care is financed has changed, with private payers and public insurance paying for more care. This interactive graphic shows who paid for the nation’s health care and how much it cost.”
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The health spending 1 percent: Accounts for 20 percent of health care spendingt
The 1 percent of the population that has the highest annual health expenses accounts for one-fifth of health spending . … Those in the top 5 percent account for just under half of all spending, with average annual expenditures that exceed $50,000. Continue reading
U.S. health care: Do We Really Spend More and Get Less?
Spending computations are inaccurate. [T]here is another way to assess the cost of health care. We can count up the real resources being used. … doctors per capita, more hospital beds, etc.,… On this score, the United States looks really good. Continue reading
Michael Moore’s Movie Misdiagnoses Medical Malady
Michael Moore, with his simplistic view of U.S. health care, doesn’t realize that over regulation and government interference drive up costs.
