Off the Market

Donald Berwick is smarter than you.  He didn’t say so, although he really did.  Instead, Berwick implied as much in his own rather tweed blazer and tote bag-style fashion.  The new Medicare and Medicaid Services head maintains that maybe you need a little bit of help buying things, specifically everything you could ever want to [...]

Nobody’s Business

I don’t like Walmart.  I’m a heartless reactionary whose hobbies include clinging to guns and Bibles, which means I’m supposed to treat the expansive suburban supercenter as a shrine.  But I always find the commercial experience to be gloomy, as the oppressive fluorescent blandness fails to compensate for the opportunity to buy a gross of [...]

It’s No Competition: We Need Private Health Care

Could we take care of ourselves?  It might sound like a revolutionary question in a world where a smiley Barack Obama gets to add his signature to his signature run-your-life initiative.
But the Age of Entitlements is already fading in esteem, as Americans grow increasingly wary of going bankrupt funding free stuff.  Countless repulsed individuals have [...]

Popular Ranking Unfairly Misrepresents the U.S. Health Care System

By: Richard G. Fessler, MD, PhD
The media and political community have made a big deal out of the fact that the U.S. ranks 37 out of 191 countries on the World Health Organization’s Health Care Ranking System.  Is this tool a credible way to compare quality health care delivered in the U.S. vs the rest of [...]