Congress to Amend Baucus Bill
Posted in In brief on 18 September 2009
Stats: 1 views and No Comments "Lawmakers in both parties raised concerns Thursday that the health-care reform bill offered by Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus a day earlier would impose too high a cost on middle-class Americans and said they will seek to change the legislation to ease that potential burden." (Washington Post, Friday) If Congress really ...
Posted in In brief on 18 September 2009
Stats: 1 views and No Comments "Lawmakers in both parties raised concerns Thursday that the health-care reform bill offered by Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus a day earlier would impose too high a cost on middle-class Americans and said they will seek to change the legislation to ease that potential burden." (Washington Post, Friday) If Congress really ...
ObamaCare: Status Quo on Steroids
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 11 September 2009
Stats: 29 views and 10 Comments Let's begin by noting that the so-called health-insurance companies deserve little sympathy. As they exist today, they are very much creatures of the State. In fact, there's a sense in which it can be said that if we didn't have health-insurance companies, we wouldn't need them. Economist ...
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 11 September 2009
Stats: 29 views and 10 Comments Let's begin by noting that the so-called health-insurance companies deserve little sympathy. As they exist today, they are very much creatures of the State. In fact, there's a sense in which it can be said that if we didn't have health-insurance companies, we wouldn't need them. Economist ...
Obama’s Health-Insurance Cartel
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 21 August 2009
Stats: 175 views and 20 Comments President Obama and other advocates of nationalized health insurance have tried a variety of sales pitches, which indicates their difficulty in getting traction with the public. The latest is "competition and choice." Who could be against those things? Well, Obama for one, followed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House member ...
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 21 August 2009
Stats: 175 views and 20 Comments President Obama and other advocates of nationalized health insurance have tried a variety of sales pitches, which indicates their difficulty in getting traction with the public. The latest is "competition and choice." Who could be against those things? Well, Obama for one, followed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House member ...
The Market Doesn’t Ration Health Care
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 7 August 2009
Stats: 45 views and 15 Comments 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 ...
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 7 August 2009
Stats: 45 views and 15 Comments 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 ...
