by Henry Oliner | May 17, 2026 | Business, Democrats, Economics, Health Care, Inequality, Politics
Inequality clearly exists and is even pronounced compared to other periods. AOC, Bernie Sanders, Robert Reich and others from the left have challenged the legitimacy of the very existence of billionaires, though I wonder if this includes Taylor Swift, Oprah, Steven...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 1, 2020 | Health Care, Politics, Progressivism
From Kevin Williamson at National Review. Debating Obamacare, Again, and Again: Because we have an election coming up, some people are shouting “Health care is a right!” while others are shouting that federal efforts to make insurance more affordable are “Socialism!”...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 26, 2020 | Health Care
The purpose of the shelter in place requirements was not to reduce the total number of cases, but to keep a surge in cases from overwhelming our medical capabilities. Isolating the highest risk people and avoiding crowds that allows it to spread faster made good sense...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 10, 2020 | Health Care
I just completed reading Ensuring America’s Health Care by Christy Ford Chapin about the history of the development if America’s health care system. The book is very detailed about the evolution from AMA control to an insurance company model that is...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 25, 2019 | Health Care, Politics, Progressivism
from The Library of Economics and Liberty, How We Failed Our Economics Students and Caused Low Government Approval Ratings by Russell S. Sobel: The “nirvana fallacy” is the logical error of comparing actual things with unrealistic, idealized alternatives. For...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 11, 2019 | Health Care
From The Wall Street Journal Biden’s Plan for Health is Already a Failure by Brian Blase: Yet ObamaCare largely failed in its primary goal—to create a better market for individual health insurance. The ObamaCare exchanges are performing much worse than expected when...
