A Modest Health Care Proposal
Posted in Articles on 21 September 2009
Stats: 19 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: 19 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 ...
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 ...
The Overlooked Solution for Health Care
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 14 August 2009
Stats: 112 views and 24 Comments Discussing healthcare reform with an advocate of government control is frustrating. It almost feels as if one is speaking a foreign language -- and in a sense, the free-market proponent is speaking a foreign language. The meaning usually doesn't get through. This is most obvious when the ...
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 14 August 2009
Stats: 112 views and 24 Comments Discussing healthcare reform with an advocate of government control is frustrating. It almost feels as if one is speaking a foreign language -- and in a sense, the free-market proponent is speaking a foreign language. The meaning usually doesn't get through. This is most obvious when the ...
Are Medical Markets an Inherent Failure?
Posted in Not So Fast! on 5 August 2009
Stats: 17 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: 17 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 ...
