Search AlsanBlog
-
Recent Posts
Archives
Categories
Websites
Category Archives: Healthcare
Ebola Non-Heroes
In remarks made yesterday from the White House, President Obama said that healthcare workers who have treated Ebola patients in West Africa are “American heroes” who must be treated with “dignity and respect” (see here). The recent actions of two health workers, however, have been less than heroic … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare, Politics
Tagged Craig Spencer, Ebola, Ebola response, Kaci Hickox, quarantine
Leave a comment
Misrepresenting Resistance To Big Government
Aaron Carroll, one of the editors in chief of the liberal health policy blog, The Determined Statist (a.k.a. The Incidental Economist), recently boasted about co-authoring a paper about the “social contract” and health care reform in America (see here). Carroll and … Continue reading
Not Getting Science
Oh dear, Austin Frakt of the liberal healthcare blog The Determined Statist (a.k.a. The Incidental Economist) is deeply saddened by the Supreme Court’s recent Hobby Lobby decision (see here). In that case, the court ruled that the government could not … Continue reading
Competition Deniers Strike Again
The recent agreement in principle between Partners Healthcare (a hospital system in the Boston area) and Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is a good example of how liberals view competition and go about enforcing the antitrust laws, which is to say they don’t enforce them at … Continue reading
“Empirically Driven” Liberals
Writing in the New Republic (see here), Noam Scheiber counsels liberals such as Michael Moore not to despair about Obamacare’s start-up problems because Obamacare “paves the way” toward a single-payer system that is beloved by liberals, one and all. According to Scheiber, increasing insurance … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare, Politics
Tagged central planning, health policy, liberals, Noam Scheiber, ObamaCare, single-payer
Leave a comment
Pajama Boy Is Why The Islamists Will Win
We’ve all heard of “Pajama Boy” by now and seen the tweet, in which Pajama Boy sits, wearing his tartan jammies, holding a cup of hot chocolate, and suggesting that we talk about getting health insurance. For those who have not been paying attention, here is our smirking hero: … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare, Politics
Tagged health policy, liberal mind, ObamaCare, Organizing for Action, Pajama Boy
Leave a comment
Clinging to Central Planning In Healthcare
The Washington Post continues its support of the central planning that is engulfing one-sixth of the world’s largest economy, also known as “Obamacare.” The latest efforts include an editorial extolling the virtues of a thing called the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) (see here) and an article attacking a … Continue reading
Competition Deniers
In this post at The Incidental Economist, Aaron Carroll agrees that Obamacare may cause hospital layoffs, but tells us that’s to be expected because, after all, if we contain costs, there will be less money for wages and profits. And Carroll further concludes that the result would … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged Aaron Carroll, big government, central planning, competition, free markets, ObamaCare
Leave a comment
Embracing Central Authority
WaPo columnist Anne Applebaum sees the GOP as endangering democracy by closing the government in an attempt to stop Obamacare. In her column, Applebaum implies (see here) that those who resist Obamacare are members of an “irrational fringe” and no better than “insurgents” or “coup plotters” who should be … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged Anne Applebaum, big government, government shutdown, ObamaCare
Leave a comment
The Congressional Exemption From Obamacare
Finally a conservative steps up to criticize the argument made by other conservatives that the administration is giving Congress special treatment by exempting it from the require-ments of Obamacare. In an article at National Review Online, Patrick Brennan explains that “congressional employees aren’t receiving a special handout” … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare, Politics
Tagged congressional exemption, federal employees, Obamacare exemption, Ted Cruz
Leave a comment
AlsanBlog 