Tagged: health care
Democracy Doesn’t Do Nuance: Why the Dems Lost Control of the Debate
Not surprisingly, this poll from Gallup showing that the extremity of the town hall protests may be succeeding in increasing opposition to health care reform – and certainly have not provoked a backlash – is rightly...
misconceptions and deregulation
Just very briefly – “deregulation” does not mean the stripping away of all rules or the desire to enter into a state of anarchy. So when I speak of “deregulating” the health care industry,...
a broken system ctd.
By now we are all aware that should liberal health care reform pass through Congress we will face government-sanctioned euthanasia of the sick, elderly and mentally incompetent; we will sit in lines longer than...
health care comparison
The Kaiser Family Foundation has a great tool to compare all the various health care proposals side by side, issue by issue. Check it out.
health care costs
What do we mean when we talk about the “rising costs of health care” in America? It’s a very ambiguous term with a lot of different possible meanings. We could mean the cost of...
Wyden-Bennett (again)
The Wyden-Bennett “Healthy Americans Act” really is the most sensible health-care reform bill out there right now. I don’t think health care reform is a hill worth dying on for conservatives (there are other,...
government and monopoly
“Monopolies are not innovative, whether they are public or private.” ~ Megan McArdle “One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do Two can be as bad as one It’s the loneliest number since...
Is Divided Government More Responsive?
I’m not sure how well Freddie and I addressed the central question of our discussion last night, to wit, how to overcome the institutional problems in our representative democracy. But the discussion about health...
health care vs education
One thing I thought about reading this Hot Air post is that if a lot of the proposed health care funds come from state coffers, we run the risk of not being able to...
public plans, vouchers, and choice
“This, then, is the fundamental conservative problem: you can either have universal coverage or you can have a quasi-free market. There’s no way to have both, but no one is willing to say publicly...
pet projects
So Dan Miller critiqued me and conservatives in general for not talking about health policy enough, and he’s right. We haven’t. Part of this is because when it comes to government planning there is...
How Conservatives Can Begin Thinking About a Public Health Option
~by Tim Kowal Someone mentioned recently that conservatives ought not cast so many stones in the health care debate when none of them are coming up with any viable alternatives. I figured I’d use...
Singapore’s health care system
Via Chris in the comments, this intriguing look at the Singapore health-care system:
health care, flip-flopping, and drunken boxing…er…blogging
Okay, so Michael Drew in the comments has pointed out that I have been inconsistent in my take on health care. Indeed, my take on health care is one that is “in the making”...
thoughts on health care ctd.
Conor writes: As I ponder an Obama Administration health care reform bill, whatever that turns out to look like, I am struck by how different the debate is on the left, where Ezra Klein...
A Thought on Healthcare
Reading the comments to E.D.’s link-fest yesterday, I noticed that there is a lot of resistance to the idea that universal health care will stifle innovation in the US. This idea is generally taken...
Nate Silver defends the public option
Okay, before I form an opinion of Nate’s post, I just want to run this past Mark and the other libertarians ’round here because this is similar, if more detailed, to arguments I’ve made:
