Healthcare
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…
Redington Jahncke explains why “skepticism turned out to be the correct impulse in the case of the WHO rankings” of nations’ healthcare systems, as well as in the case of a Commonwealth Fund study of the “health of nations.” It’s his conclusion, though, that points toward a new question about Obamacare: Indeed, lifestyle and behavioral…
Of all the letters that have appeared decrying or endorsing Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s recent screed against those who oppose Obamacare, one by Pamela Burdon, of Warwick, was especially poignant: The Nazis took my parents from their families when they were teenagers. My parents miraculously survived under impossible conditions. They then fled communism, coming here to…
As Monique insisted, last night, healthcare is not an “inalienable right.” Because it requires other people (doctors, et al.) to provide services, it is actually a consumer good. It’s a vital one, to be sure, and one for which people will exchange significant percentages of their resources, but that doesn’t make it a right. It…
Thomas Sowell puts it pretty starkly: The appointment of White House “czars” to make policy across a wide spectrum of issues — unknown people who get around the Constitution’s requirement of Senate confirmation for cabinet members — is yet another sign of the mindset that sees the fundamental laws and values of this country as…
I’m going to go out on a limb and speculate that it’s not Edward Achorn who’s been the primary author of the Projo‘s recent series editorials on healthcare reform. The position of the Projo editorial board has been pass anything, it doesn’t matter if the legislation has been read or not, so long as it…
Mike, of Assigned Reading, noticed a strange omission of activism on the part of his and other teachers’ unions: Teachers enjoy some of the best benefits available. And as a result, we working class Americans will be subjected to a 40% premium tax, a punishment for having healthcare plans better than most Americans. One would…
