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 | 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...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 18, 2018 | Economics
by Henry Oliner The right to health care is meaningless virtue signaling; empty empathy. Health care requires doctors, nurses, hospital beds, ambulances, medications, and research. All of this requires money. Health care is not a single market but thousands of...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 22, 2017 | Media, Politics
By Henry Oliner “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” Winston Churchill While attributed to Churchill this quote has a history before his time, but imagine how today’s social media magnifies this axiom. The New York...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 21, 2017 | Economics, Health Care
from the Wall Street Journal ObamaCare’s Failed Cost Controls: ObamaCare also included a provision to penalize hospitals that have high rates of readmission within 30 days. This was supposed to cut costs, and hospitals have reduced readmissions. But new data...
