FEE Alum Sets ACS Straight on Health Care
Posted in News on 9 December 2009
Stats: 17 views and 3 Comments FEE seminar alum Douglas Mackenzie is speaking up to his fellow surgeons in a letter to the chairman of the board of regents of the American College of Surgeons. "The debate over health care in this country has brought in many players with skin in the game. Your coalition of surgical organizations is ...
Posted in News on 9 December 2009
Stats: 17 views and 3 Comments FEE seminar alum Douglas Mackenzie is speaking up to his fellow surgeons in a letter to the chairman of the board of regents of the American College of Surgeons. "The debate over health care in this country has brought in many players with skin in the game. Your coalition of surgical organizations is ...
A Modest Health Care Proposal
Posted in Articles on 21 September 2009
Stats: 18 views and 10 Comments [This article was originally published in the Philadelphia Bulletin] Enough dithering! President Barack Obama says it’s time to act on health care. I agree. But act how? Are we really going to be happy with the pussy-footing proposals floating around Congress? All the so-called reformers want to do is tinker with insurance ...
Posted in Articles on 21 September 2009
Stats: 18 views and 10 Comments [This article was originally published in the Philadelphia Bulletin] Enough dithering! President Barack Obama says it’s time to act on health care. I agree. But act how? Are we really going to be happy with the pussy-footing proposals floating around Congress? All the so-called reformers want to do is tinker with insurance ...
Are Medical Markets an Inherent Failure?
Posted in Not So Fast! on 5 August 2009
Stats: 15 views and 5 Comments Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman recently made an extraordinary statement regarding the application of markets to medical care. Writing in his July 31 column, Krugman stated: Right-wing opponents of reform would have you believe that President Obama is a wild-eyed socialist, attacking the free market. But unregulated markets don’t work for ...
Posted in Not So Fast! on 5 August 2009
Stats: 15 views and 5 Comments Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman recently made an extraordinary statement regarding the application of markets to medical care. Writing in his July 31 column, Krugman stated: Right-wing opponents of reform would have you believe that President Obama is a wild-eyed socialist, attacking the free market. But unregulated markets don’t work for ...
Do We Need State Control of Medical Care?
Posted in Not So Fast! on 1 July 2009
Stats: 7 views and 8 Comments The notion that the political classes “should never waste a good crisis” has extended not only to the de facto nationalization of domestic auto companies and the financial sector, but also to medical care. It is treated as inevitable that the government will demand to control all the money that ...
Posted in Not So Fast! on 1 July 2009
Stats: 7 views and 8 Comments The notion that the political classes “should never waste a good crisis” has extended not only to the de facto nationalization of domestic auto companies and the financial sector, but also to medical care. It is treated as inevitable that the government will demand to control all the money that ...
The Real Cost of Health Care
Posted in Not So Fast! on 24 June 2009
Stats: 350 views and 4 Comments One regular theme in Paul Krugman’s column is universal medical care, and anyone who opposes him either is evil or simply wants people to be unhealthy. While he is not fully happy with President Barack Obama’s latest plan to create a government health insurance option, nonetheless he knows all central ...
Posted in Not So Fast! on 24 June 2009
Stats: 350 views and 4 Comments One regular theme in Paul Krugman’s column is universal medical care, and anyone who opposes him either is evil or simply wants people to be unhealthy. While he is not fully happy with President Barack Obama’s latest plan to create a government health insurance option, nonetheless he knows all central ...
Medical Misunderstanding
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 22 May 2009
Stats: 1,250 views and 9 Comments Economic illiteracy will be hazardous to your health. Barack Obama says, “[T]he most significant driver — by far — of our long-term debt and our long-term deficits is ever-escalating health care costs. If we don’t reform how health care is delivered in this country, then we are not going to be able ...
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 22 May 2009
Stats: 1,250 views and 9 Comments Economic illiteracy will be hazardous to your health. Barack Obama says, “[T]he most significant driver — by far — of our long-term debt and our long-term deficits is ever-escalating health care costs. If we don’t reform how health care is delivered in this country, then we are not going to be able ...
