Paul Ryan video illustrates Medicare’s problems & path to solution
Rep. Paul Ryan narrates a good video using “sticky” visuals about how Medicare is a financial train wreck, and how converting it to a voucher program for (not-so-private) insurance plans would be an improvement.
The immorality of government medicine vs. your right to your own life
To save American healthcare, not to mention to save the country itself, advocates of freedom, free markets, & capitalism must take the moral high ground from the proponents of government-control, Dr. Yaron Brook tells patients and doctors at a Doctors Town Hall.
The case for replacing Medicare with vouchers for commercial insurance
This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video explains how a “premium-support” plan would solve Medicare’s fiscal crisis and improve the overall healthcare system. This voucher-based system also would protect seniors from bureaucratic rationing.
Health care updates from Cato Institute
The latest health care commentary by Cato Institute scholars on: Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, mandatory insurance as elitist, unconstitutional, and based on phony justification.
Obamacare’s Cruel and Inhumane Inflation-Indexed Vouchers
For some prominent pundits, tax-funded vouchers for “private” insurance are OK when a Democrat proposes it, but not OK when a Republican does.
Medicare Loses Nearly 4 Times as Much Money as Health Insurers Make
Next time someone decries insurance company profits, remind him that fraud and waste in Medicare and Medicaid far exceed these dollar amounts. Check out Jeffrey Anderson’s article in the Weekly Standard: “Medicare Loses Nearly Four Times as Much Money as Health Insurers Make.” See also my previous post: “Medicare & Medicaid fraud far exceeds insurance company profits.”
The Road To Socialized Medicine Is Paved With Pre-existing Conditions – The Objectivist – – Forbes
The government takeover of medicine & medical insurance has been an incremental process. At Forbes.com, read about the “general pattern of the expansion [where] advocates point to some group in real or alleged dire need and declare that Washington has a duty to act.”
Yes, Medicare is an (unsustainable & bankrupt) welfare program
“With Medicare, we are all still making out like bandits, shoving all those costs to future generations,” said [economist Eugene] Steuerle. “At another level, we know that this system is totally unsustainable.”
How Medicare vouchers could bypass health care rationing
The debate over which medical treatments Medicare would cover would vanish if instead of running a monopolistic health plan for seniors, government subsidized seniors’ purchase of the insurance plan of their choice.
Donald Berwick’s Five-Year Plan v. the iPhone
Paul Howard and David Gratzer, MD write
Last month, Apple released its new iPhone, a faster and more powerful version of its ever popular computer-phone. It’s a remarkable device – particularly remarkable given that its machine ancestors were large and expensive, often filling whole buildings yet able to crunch fewer numbers than […]
Obama appoints Donald Berwick: Health Care Rationer-in-Chief
From Grace-Marie Turner at National Review (July 7):
President Obama is making a huge end-run around the American people with his recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick.
“This recess appointment is an insult to the American people,” said Sen. John Barrasso (R., Wyo.), a physician and leading Berwick opponent. “Dr. Berwick is a […]
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.
