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 [...]

Thanking Obama (Seriously, Sort Of)

Have you thanked Barack Obama yet?  Actually, wait.  The notion of dashing off a note of gratitude to a limply delusional embarrassment of a condescending phony may not have crossed your mind, anyway, especially if you’ve recently been trying to find work before two Iranian mullahs turn their launch keys simultaneously.  Oh, and the president [...]

What’s Really Wrong With Healthcare?

The following is a guest post by Robert Sewell, M.D., F.A.C.S. Dr. Sewell is a practicing General Surgeon in Southlake, Texas.  He is the Immediate Past-President of the American Society of General Surgeons, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a Delegate to the American Medical Association.  The opinions expressed are solely his [...]

The Healthcare Morass

By: Laura Adelmann
With the public option seemingly off the table, Harry Reid and Senate Democrats had to look for another idea to sway votes for the healthcare bill. Their latest offering? Expand Medicare to allow a buy in for those between the ages of 55 and 64. This Medicare option now appears to be off [...]

Obama may not be lying about health care, but he’s still untruthful

By Anthony Bialy
Say you work in an office, and your cool boss decides that placing a box full of money in the break room would be a great way to inspire productivity. While everyone has access to it, he announces one stipulation, namely that each person is only allowed to take a dollar per [...]

Medicare has lower “reported” costs. Truth or Fiction?

By: Richard G. Fessler, MD, PhD
Are the administrative costs of single-payer health care systems less than current private insurance system in the United States?
One claim made by advocates of single-payer health care systems is that private insurance is less “efficient” because of high administrative costs incurred by having “multiple” insurance companies, and the costs of [...]

Grab a Calculator the Math is Getting Fuzzy

By: Jill Serbousek
I admit to needing a calculator when doing math problems that involve multiple digits. I even resort to using a spreadsheet because my calculator isn’t great when doing problems in the trillions. So, as I read through the news reports, government reports and analyst summaries, I actually attempt to keep up with [...]

Is Universal Health Care a Moral Issue?

by Kimberly Moore
It’s an interesting question and one that isn’t easily answered. I don’t know anyone who would see someone suffering and not want them to seek medical help. After careful consideration, I believe to force upon our country a universal health care plan is immoral.
There have been many figures announcing how many people in [...]

Entitlement Mania

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By: Laura Adelmann
Is there something about our culture that makes an ever growing number of Americans feel that they should be getting everything they want, with no real effort on their part? What happened to the values of working hard and saving, starter homes and delayed gratification? It seems they’ve disappeared from [...]

Debunking the Myths about Health Care in America

By John H. Peloza M.D.
Special Book Review
In “The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care. A Citizen’s Guide,” Ms. Sally C. Pipes surgically exposes the misleading arguments of those who support government run national health care. In a time when Americans seem to believe in the competence of government to solve the health care “crisis,” [...]

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