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Thursday, August 7, 2008States Reinvent the (Broken) WheelBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Budget and TaxStateline says that a number of states are undertaking new efforts with the aim of "breaking the generational cycle of poverty." The 60s live again? Certainly there are things that governments can do to open ... more »»
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Thursday, August 7, 2008A Grotesque Twist to the Los Angeles Homeless-Hospital SagaAnother Example of How Government "Help" Backfires With Tragic Consequences By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareOnly three days ago, I wondered what Los Angeles hoped to achieve by passing an ordnance forbidding hospitals from discharging ER patients without their written consent. As I noted, many homeless people would be happy ... more »»
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Thursday, August 7, 2008One More Second Opinion to "Sicko" & Single-PayerBy Merrill Matthews, Jr.Filed As: Health Care(The following op-ed appeared today in The Olympian) The slow-boiling national debate over health care naturally leads people to look at England, Canada and other government-run systems as potential role models for sweeping ... more »»
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Thursday, August 7, 2008Massachusetts Gets It Wrong AgainBy Joseph D. ColettiFiled As: Health CareAccording to governing.com, Massachusetts is trying to cut health care costs with "a commission to develop uniform billing and coding standards for health care providers and insurers," statewide adoption of ... more »»
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Thursday, August 7, 2008Canadian Doctors Hold Lotteries to Decide Who Gets Access to CareBy Peter NelsonFiled As: Health CareThe National Post reports on how some Canadian doctors have held lotteries to determine which patients to eliminate from their practices, while other doctors held lotteries to decide who they’ll accept. ... more »»
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Thursday, August 7, 2008Transparency Moves Ahead in ColoradoBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Budget and TaxTransparency in government spending is moving ahead in Colorado, says Jon Caldara of the Independence Institute. Here's what he had to say in a recent email: The Denver Post made an issue ... more »»
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Thursday, August 7, 2008“More Energy Research” is BunkBy Jack McHughFiled As: Economic principles, Environment, General, TransportationPoliticians love to claim that “more research” is the solution to our energy problems. It allows them – and us – to evade the real challenges that face our civilization as we transition from fossil fuels to non-fossil energy sources over the next 100 years or so. Doling out the ... more »»
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Thursday, August 7, 2008Minority Report: Socialize the Cost, Privatize the Delivery SystemBy Jack McHughFiled As: Health CarePrepare the expulsion hearings: I'm very friendly to Charles Murray’s plan to essentially socialize most of the cost of health care, but leave it’s provision in private hands. Before the vote to expel, let me explain: The proposal is contained in Murray’s “more »»
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008Crisis In the ER? The Solution is At Hand! (It's Not Taxpayer Dollars)Convenient Urgent and Retail Clinics, plus EMTALA Reform Are the Prescriptions By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareThree stories about the uninsured and emergency rooms came across the transom today. As I've written about in my analysis of the Schwarzenegger-Nuñez California Health Care Deforminator ABX1 1, the notion ... more »»
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008The CON ContinuesBy Mark Todd EnglerFiled As: Health CareThis past spring the State of Georgia allegedly adopted "an overhaul" of its stringent Certificate of Need statutes. But that isn't stopping entrenched monopoly-minded industry interests from ... more »»
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