Paul Hsieh
Tuesday, November 25, 2008Mandatory Health Insurance: Wrong for Massachusetts, Wrong for AmericaBy Paul HsiehFiled As: General, Health Care[Craig Biddle (publisher of The Objective Standard) has graciously agreed to make the full text of my article in the Fall 2008 issue on the dangers of mandatory health insurance available for free, to subscribers and non-subscribers ... more »»
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Monday, November 24, 2008Sooner State says 'Later' to Mandatory InsuranceBy Paul HsiehFiled As: Health CareThe November 21 Oklahoman reported that Oklahoma state insurance commissioner Kim Holland wanted to use the power of government to force citizens to purchase health insurance, but she recognized that it might be difficult to pass a Massachusetts-style law. So she proposed more »»
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Monday, November 17, 2008Maximum MadnessBy Paul HsiehFiled As: General, Health CareThe "universal health care" plan from Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) is basically a nation-wide version of the failed Massachusetts plan.
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Saturday, October 18, 2008LaFerrara on NJ Health Care ReformsBy Paul HsiehFiled As: Health CareThe October 14, 2008 edition of the New Jersey Star-Ledger printed the following LTE by Mike LaFerrara supporting free market health care reforms in New ... more »»
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008The Problems with "Never Pay" RequirementsBy Paul HsiehFiled As: Health CareMedicare (aka CMS or Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Services) has now implemented a policy of not paying for certain bad patient outcomes that they call "never events". These include ... more »»
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Thursday, October 9, 2008Health Care is--or Should Be--a CommodityFiled As: Health CareOne of the questions asked during the October 7, 2008 Presidential Debate was whether health care should be treated as a commodity.Both candidates argued that it shouldn't, with more »»
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Friday, September 19, 2008In Opposition to Colorado Amendment 56By Paul HsiehFiled As: Ballot questions (health), Economic principles, Health CareThis fall, Colorado voters must decide whether to require all businesses with more than 20 employees to provide health insurance for their employees (Amendment 56). Although voters may be tempted to say "yes," this is an immoral and impractical solution to the problem of rising health insurance ... more »»
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008Putting Doctors on the Medicare RACBy Paul HsiehFiled As: Health CareDr. Evan Madianos has alerted me to the next possible Medicare cost-containing measure -- the Recovery Audit Contractor, or RAC. ... more »»
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008Right Diagnosis, Governor, Wrong AntidoteBy Paul HsiehFiled As: Economic principles, Health CareTennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen made an interesting analogy in his July 31 USAToday op-ed, "Think gas prices are high? Watch out for health care":
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008LTE on Mandatory Insurance in USA TodayBy Paul HsiehFiled As: Health CareThe July 23, 2008 edition of USA Today has printed my LTE critical of mandatory insurance:Reform health care |
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