Healthcare
I certainly don’t want any of my family’s regular expenses going up. Indeed, if I were able to dictate terms to companies who provide me services, I’d lower my rates. But that’s not how the world works. Of course, one doesn’t get the impression that government officials comprehend such mundane observations of reality. Rhode Island’s…
As I’ve pointed out, one of the arguments made by the Healthcarism advocates was that we must pass something, anything and “the warts can be removed later.” Apparently, that attitude exists amongst global climate changistas, too (h/t): Some researchers have argued that it is unfair to attack the IPCC too strongly, pointing out that some…
1) The ProJo editors on global warming: Still, that a few scientists are accused of manipulating a bit of data from some climate research does not do away with the preponderance of evidence. The latest controversy revolves around the validity of the collection and use of data behind a U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
Rhode Island’s health insurance commissioner, Christopher Koller, has released a report showing huge disparities in what health insurers pay local hospitals for the very same procedures. The reason is that members of the Care New England hospital group offer services not elsewhere available, so insurers have no choice but to include them, and the hospitals…
Thanks to a caller to the Matt Allen Show, I was tipped off to something I’d never heard before. In an event at his Presidential Library (broadcast by C-SPAN on September 15, 2009), former President Carter explained that, back in 1979, he had bi-partisan support for a health care reform package that was completely financed…
On election day in Massachusetts, the desperate ProJo editors have resorted to listing a bunch of “what ifs?” should Scott Brown be elected and Obamacare not pass. Notwithstanding that a counter-argument can be made that passing this particular monstrosity called health care “reform” would make all of the items they identify even worse, the panicked…
Mark Patinkin begins a brief examination of “why there’s all this fuss about revamping the [healthcare] system” with a faulty premise: I’m guessing there have been two distinct audiences for the health-care debate. Those who have an affordable plan and those who don’t. If you don’t, you doubtless paid a lot more attention. Patinkin’s essay…
At the end of this post I alluded to the special deal that unions–after much b***ing and moaning– have extracted from Team Obama Health Care Force. In short, the tax on so-called “cadillac plans” won’t be applied to collectively bargained health plans. Heritage’s James Sherk observes: What a deal. Unions want the health care spending,…
With the ProJo editorial board’s endorsement of Martha Coakley for Senate, it’s become more apparent than ever that the ProJo editorial board has become a single-issue shill for health care reform at all costs. Most important to us is that she is the candidate most likely to carry on the work of the late Sen.…
For those who remember when health insurance used to be only “hospital insurance” or “catastrophic”, this chart shouldn’t be a surprise. Veronique de Rugy puts it in context: Much of the rationale behind the current reform of the healthcare system is about controlling inflation in healthcare costs. However, based on the trend presented above, a…