by Henry Oliner | Oct 6, 2017 | Economics, Health Care
from Scott Atlas at The Wall Street Journal, The Health Reform That Hasn’t Been Tried A second tool for motivating patients to consider price is large, liberalized health savings accounts. These tax-sheltered accounts are generally used to pay for the noncatastrophic...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 4, 2017 | Economics, Health Care, Politics, Progressivism
from Scott Atlas at The Wall Street Journal, The Health Reform That Hasn’t Been Tried First, equip consumers to consider prices. Critics always claim this is unrealistic: Are you supposed to shop around from the back of the ambulance? But emergency care...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 4, 2010 | Health Care, Politics
Campaigns promise generalities but laws have to be specific. The health care disaster shows how difficult the road from promise to result is. The current mess simply tried to do too much. There are two main problems in health care: cost and coverage. 85% of Americans...