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Healthcare Pricing
A recent post at the blog Project Millennial outlines some of the issues relating to health-care as understood by liberals. According to the post, healthcare prices are a “total mess” because “list prices” vary immensely from provider to provider and the price … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged competition, health policy, healthcare costs, healthcare prices, price controls, Project Millennial
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Demand Competition In Healthcare
Wise Boy (aka Ezra Klein) and other members of the Big Government priesthood often claim there is no evidence that competition can control healthcare costs. Although it’s true that many healthcare markets may be less competitive than they should be, … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged antitrust, big government, central planning, competition, ezra klein, liberal mind, price controls, self government
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Break Up The Big Hospitals
In his Time magazine cover story, Steven Brill criticized the prices that M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston charges patients. In an op-ed piece appearing in the Wash-ington Post, a couple of the hospital’s doctors step forward evidently to defend their employer against Brill’s criticism. And no … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged antitrust, central planning, price controls
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Healthcare Prices
In his lengthy cover article for Time magazine, Steven Brill argues that the first question in the healthcare policy debate should be “why are the bills so high,” rather than blowing past that issue to ask who should pay. Most of his … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged antitrust, big government, competition, Matthew Yglesias, price controls, Steven Brill
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Medicare Eligibility Age
It’s always bizarre to see liberals like Matthew Yglesias ignore the historical evidence and argue that central government, with its central planning and price controls, will do a better job at managing the economy than a system organized around markets and competition. … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged big government, central planning, Matthew Yglesias, Medicare, ObamaCare, price controls, public option
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Kiss Mammograms Good-Bye
Well, now that the election is over, the authoritarians (a/k/a liberals) can turn their full attention back to healthcare and resume the task of placing 315 million Americans under the thumb of the central government. Liberals are often seen as wanting to turn America into Europe, … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged big government, current events, healthcare, liberals, ObamaCare, price controls
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College Tuition
Apparently this is how it works: 1. The government throws money at higher education, 2. Colleges raise tuition, 3. The government throws more money at higher education (total student debt is now about $1 trillion), 4. Colleges raise tuition. The liberals’ … Continue reading
Difference In Kind
In her WSJ column, Kimberley Strassel outlines what Americans can expect to see from Obama in a second term: higher taxes, greater spending, growing deficits, fine tuning of the regulatory apparatus, and continued decline of American influence in foreign affairs. She correctly concludes that … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged big government, capitalism, central planning, price controls
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“Independent” Experts
A panel of independent experts, in a new medical study, concludes that drugs used to treat mild cases of high blood pressure are not very effective. According to Slate’s Jeanne Lenzer, the study turns “decades of medical dogma” on its head, and she’s especially gaga about … Continue reading
