What is Unique about U.S. Health Care? Patients are not the paying customers
Americans control less of our own health spending than do residents of other developed countries. After ObamaCare is defeated, reversing his long-term trend must be the top priority of the real health reform that replaces it. 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
Health care & the myth of United States’ poor life expectancy
If you really want to compare medical care outcomes in different countries, just looking at life expectancy is wrong. The best way to do it is [to measure survival rates and longevity] at the point of medical intervention. 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
How Obamacare will decrease health care access for the poor
“ObamaCare, by lowering the money price of care for almost everybody while doing nothing to change supply, will intensify non-price rationing and may actually make access to care more difficult for those with the least financial resources.” – John Goodman Continue reading
Hey, Paul Krugman, patients should be consumers, not helpless pawns in an authoritarian politically-controlled health care system you support
Nobel-prize winner & New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman is demonstrates how little he knows about health care policy. Let me count the ways.
“Health care” differs from “medical care”
Thomas Sowell makes an excellent point: … Even in matters of life and death, too many people accept words instead of thinking, leaving themselves wide open to people who are clever at spinning words. The whole controversy about “health care reform” is a classic example. “Health care” and medical care are not the same thing. […]
No equal access with Germany’s “universal” health care
Many people support government-controlled health care because they think it will provide everyone with equal access to medical treatment, regardless of their ability to pay. Ronald Bachman of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation recently visited Germany with other health care policy wonks from the U.S. to learn about the health care in Germany. He reports […]
