Two traditionally “left-wing” media outlets publish article on examples of how free market solutions can work for patients and doctors. from Huffington Post 5/26/2011 Direct Primary Care: Skip The Insurer, Get Better Health Care? Health […]
By: Alieta Eck, MD, Piscataway, NJ “We have to pass the health care bill, so you can find out what’s in it,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It’s a good thing doctors don’t practice medicine […]
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. Uninsurance is portrayed as being like a disease; it has even been called an epidemic. At a minimum, it puts you one medical bill away from bankruptcy, and you might […]
The uninsured are frequently vilified as “free riders” who receive care but shift the cost onto others—when they are not being portrayed as victims who don’t get as much medical care as some think they […]
No one, to our knowledge, has actually come up with an estimate of the number of residents in America, legal or illegal, who are denied life-saving medical care—if indeed there are any. Even accusations of […]
According to the implicit hypothesis underlying the rush to “health care reform,” the main barrier to ideal care for all at an affordable cost is the absence of universal “coverage”—payment and supervision—by an appropriate (governmental […]
In its new health reform policy, replacing Health Access America, the American Medical Association writes: “We also believe that individuals with high incomes have a responsibility to obtain coverage for themselves and their families.” Persons […]
Hawaii is ending the only state universal child health-care program in the country, after just 7 months. The Keiki (Child) Care Plan was designed to offer health care insurance to the children of parents who […]
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of Americans without health coverage has fallen for the first time in 20 years—to 45.7 million in 2007 from 47 million in 2006. At the same time, […]
The penalties for not buying insurance in Massachusetts have been set too low to “encourage” compliance, stated Jonathan Gruber, a director of the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector. The proposed 2008 top penalty of $912 per […]
