The premise of the very need for health care reform of the nature of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is based on flawed analysis and myths. Myth #1 Access to health insurance is synonymous to access to health care. Plenty of
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Greedy insurance companies, health care providers, pharmaceutical companies, and doctors in 10,000 square foot mansions make convenient targets for the escalating health care costs. One could also fault intrusive government regulations and mandates and a few may actually credit the
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Kerry Lauerman writes about outspoken Democrat Camille Paglia at Salon in In “Glittering” return, Paglia lets loose, 10/10/12. Excerpt: The media’s pampering and protection of Obama over the years simply led to his weakening — which was on excruciating public
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Andrew Bernstein writes in Forbes, Whatever the Supreme Court’s Obamacare Ruling, Here’s a Free Market Healthcare Solution, 6/24/12 Excerpt: By contrast, look at the food industry. In this field, America has something much closer to a free market. For one, such innovative minds as
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Cliff Asness writes The Healthcare Myths We Must Confront in The American, 6/29/12. Excerpt: Myth #2: The pre-ObamaCare system was ‘insurance’ It was not a system of insurance. Insurance, as practiced everywhere else but healthcare, is about catastrophes. What we
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Daniel Henninger writes in the 7/4/12 Wall Street Journal, Obamacare’s Lost Tribe: Doctors. Excerpt: A remarkable and important piece by Drs. Christine K. Cassel and Sachin H. Jain in the June 17 Journal of the American Medical Association directly asks:
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A doctor, Stella Paul, writes in American Thinker A Surgeon Cuts to the Heart of the ObamaCare Nightmare, 6/30/12. Please read the whole article. Excerpt: “Capitalism has completely transformed my sub-specialty. When I was in training, a common procedure that
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Holman Jenkins writes in the Wall Street Journal, ObamaCare- Upheld and Doomed, 6/29/12 Excerpt: The solution is a tweak. Republicans already are lip-committed to a national health-insurance charter that allows insurers to design their own policies and market them across
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Economist John Cochrane makes a fascinating point in his blog The Grumpy Economist, writes Two More Cents on the Obamacare Decision, 6/30/12 There is in fact a huge difference between a tax on people without health insurance and a mandate enforced with
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Cliff Asness writes The Healthcare Myths We Must Confront in The American, 6/29/12. Excerpt: Myth #1: Healthcare prices have soared in the recent past Everyone knows that healthcare prices have soared, but everyone may well be wrong. The statistics we
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There is an overwhelming amount of words written on the ACA ruling. A few that stand out so far: Scott Grannis at Calafia Beach Pundit, The fatal flaws of Obamacare, 6/28/12. Fatal flaw #3: A government-imposed restructuring of the healthcare
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Commentary on the ACA ruling by the Supreme Court will dominate the new and old medias for some time to come. What doesn’t change is that the law is awful. Like so many laws that attempt to bring further complexity
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Michael Tanner writes in The National Review Why the Obamacare Ruling Matters, 6/27/12. Excerpts: The average American adds up the costs and benefits and decides that, on the whole, they don’t want the law. It’s not bad marketing; it’s bad
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Andrew Bernstein writes in Forbes, Whatever the Supreme Court’s Obamacare Ruling, Here’s a Free Market Healthcare Solution, 6/24/12 Excerpts: Qualitatively, U.S. healthcare is the finest in the world. Evidence? Americans have a higher survival rate than any other country for thirteen of
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Friedrich Hayek wrote, “Equality of the general rules of law and conduct… is the only kind of equality conducive to liberty and the only equality which we can secure without destroying liberty. Not only has liberty nothing to do with
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While the Supreme Court is deciding the future of Obamacare, we should not be distracted by only the constitutional issue. There are many ways to pass bad laws that do pass constitutional muster. John Cochrane writes in his blog, The Grumpy Economist, Supreme Court
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Pamela Hartzband and Jerome Groopman write Rise of the Medical Expertocracy Both Democrats and Republicans want to introduce the paternalism of ‘best practices’ into health care in the Wall Street Journal, 3/31/2012. The crux of the excellent analysis is that
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Mark Steyn writes in National Review Online, Swinging Kennedy,The liberties of more than 300 million people hinge on just one man , 3/31/12. Steyn ponders how we arrived at a point where one of the most controversial pieces of legislation,
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The Wall Street Journal editorial board writes Liberty and Obama Care 3/23/12: Select Excerpts: The Supreme Court will not be ruling about matters of partisan conviction, or the President’s re-election campaign, or even about health care at all. The lawsuit filed by
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Matt Miller writes in the Washington Post, The Missing Contraception Question, 2/22/12. Excerpts: It’s important not to let this contraception clash pass without understanding the true source of the problem. It’s not President Obama’s debauched liberal drive to shower teens with
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