All Posts Tagged With: "health care reform"
Washington’s Lies
During his campaign President Obama and his congressional supporters estimated that overhauling the nation’s health care system would cost $50–$65 billion a year. On June 15 the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported that Obama’s overhaul would cost at least $1 trillion. It’s clear that Obama’s cost estimates are untrue, and over ten years, it’s likely [...]
22Sep2010 | Walter E. Williams | 6 comments | ContinuedThe Market Doesn’t Ration Health Care
Health care “reformers” say they have two objectives: to enable the uninsured and underinsured to consume more medical services than they consume now and to keep the prices of those services from rising, as they have been, faster than the prices of other goods and services. Unfortunately, Economics 101 tells us that to accomplish those [...]
24Feb2010 | Sheldon Richman | 9 comments | ContinuedThe Health Care Debate Was “Meaningful”?
Let’s give credit where credit is due. David Brooks does say one true thing in his New York Times column, “The Values Question”, on government health care reform: “The system after reform will look as it does today, only bigger and more expensive.” Brooks is certainly right that no “health care reform” proposal with any [...]
24Feb2010 | Charles Johnson | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Mandated Health Insurance Outrage
The most outrageous aspect of health care “reform” is the insurance mandate: Every individual will have to buy government-defined comprehensive medical coverage (if it isn’t provided by his employer)—or be fined. You must buy it. Who do these politicians think they are? For those who wonder by what authority the government can make us buy [...]
23Feb2010 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedHealth Care and Radical Monopoly
In a recent article for Tikkun, Dr. Arnold Relman argued that the versions of health care reform currently proposed by “progressives” all primarily involve financing health care and expanding coverage to the uninsured rather than addressing the way current models of service delivery make it so expensive. Editing out all the pro forma tut-tutting of [...]
23Feb2010 | Kevin A. Carson | 23 comments | ContinuedWhere’s the Bipartisanship?
James Fallows had an interesting post yesterday called “Why bipartisanship can’t work.” Since it is a long post I’ll summarize the arguments as I see it: Party discipline is difficult in American Politics because candidates raise their own money and can take the party label without the approval of the party. (Academics call this a [...]
2Feb2010 | Mike Van Winkle | 1 comment | ContinuedWalmart’s Bottom Line
Walmart is one of the world’s largest, most successful, and most vilified corporations. It was ranked number four in the Fortune 500 from 1995 through 1998, reached number one in 2002 and stayed there until 2009, when it fell behind Exxon Mobil. It’s also the only firm in the top four of the Fortune 500 [...]
5Jan2010 | Art Carden | 19 comments | ContinuedHouse Democrats May Back Off on Public Insurance Plan
“Two House Democrats who favor a government insurance plan, a central element of health care legislation passed in their chamber, acknowledged Sunday it might have to be sacrificed as negotiators work out a final agreement with the Senate.”(AP, Sunday) Who says this isn’t the giving season. FEE Timely Classic: “The Return of Activist Government” by [...]
28Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedDemocrats End Debate on Health Care
“The Democratic-controlled Senate, voting 60-40, swept aside Republican objections and moved to close off debate on health overhaul legislation, marking a milestone moment for President Barack Obama’s most pressing domestic initiative. “All 58 Democrats and two independents voted to approve the first — and most crucial — of three motions needed to break off action, [...]
21Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedObama Claims U.S. ‘Bankrupt’ Without Health Care Reform
“President Obama told ABC News’ Charles Gibson in an interview that if Congress does not pass health care legislation that will bring down costs, the federal government ‘will go bankrupt.’” (ABCNews, Wednesday) He also said his stimulus plan would save or create 4 million jobs. FEE Timely Classic: “Democracy Versus Liberty” by James Bovard
17Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedSenate Push on Health Care Falling Short
“Senate Democratic leaders appeared poised Monday night to abandon efforts to create a government-run insurance safety net in their push for health-care reform, as they attempted to close ranks around a bill they hoped would win the backing of all 60 members of their caucus … Democratic negotiators had already disappointed liberal lawmakers by jettisoning [...]
15Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedHealth Care: A Future Free-Market Alternative
I visit a new doctor because of complaints I’ve been having. The primary-care doctor begins his first visit with me by explaining his payment system. I need to put down a retainer based on his assessment of the time it will take him to deal with my problem, which he’ll inform me of at the [...]
23Sep2009 | Ross Levatter | 8 comments | ContinuedReason.tv: No American Should Have to Choose Between Health Insurance and Getting Drunk
A good one from the folks at reason.tv:
15Sep2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Market Doesn’t Ration Health Care
Healthcare reformers say they have two objectives: to enable the uninsured and under-insured to consume more medical services than they consume now, and to keep the prices of those services from rising, as they have been, faster than the prices of other goods and services. Unfortunately, Economics 101 tells us that to accomplish those two [...]
7Aug2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedAre We Really All Healthcare Collectivists Now?
“We have to do something about health care.” The scariest word in that sentence is not something. It’s we. The first-person plural form is not merely a convenience, as in “We’re in for a cold winter.” It indicates that decisions about “the healthcare system” are to be made collectively, with one decision binding everyone. That’s [...]
31Jul2009 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedA Cornucopia of Healthcare Fallacies
The effort to reinvent medical care is so full of fallacies and bad logic that it would take volumes to properly expose them. Nevertheless, in this short space, let’s take a crack at some of the problems. To begin, the “reformers” want to compel insurers to cover people who are already sick for the same [...]
24Jul2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy the Rush on Health Care?
Why is Obama so eager to have his healthcare “reform” voted on before members of Congress go home for their August recess? Because this advocate of “representative government,” like many others, is a big fraud. He wants the vote to occur before the members go home and get an earful from their “constituents” about how [...]
19Jul2009 | Sheldon Richman | 3 comments | Continued-
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