Monday, March 10, 2008
On Cato's recent NY Times article
By Liberty is for me .
Filed As: Health Care
A blogger today criticized Cato's blog response to a NY Times article, where Cato's health guru was quoted.
Cato says:
Mr. Cannon, along with a number of conservative theorists, contend that spending on unneeded procedures, medical errors and hospital infections is a more dire problem than the cost of caring for the uninsured. They say that waste accounts for a much larger share of the country’s $2.1 trillion health care bill, and that at least twice as many Americans are estimated to die each year from medical errors as from lack of access to care.
Blogger says:
Also pissing me off this week is the continuing nonsense from Cato's anti-universal health care club which is suggesting that increasing health care coverage will lead to an increased number of deaths because of increasing medical errors.
I tend to agree with Cato's statement because:
- Malpractice suits based on medical errors are very expensive, making a $2.1 trillion figure seem very realistic.
- According to a 1999 study by the Institute of Medicine as many as 98,000 die a year from medical errors, in comparison only 22,000 people die a year from lack of health care access.
Meaning that the bloggers appeal to universal care is garbage because the problem isn't that the uninsured are dying.
Right?
- posted by Liberty is For Me .
- 11:08 pm
- 2 comments
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