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Monday, September 29, 2008The Ineffectiveness of Cost-Effectiveness CriteriaBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareThee use of cost-effectiveness criteria, while lowering the cost of health care in the short term, threatens to harm future patients by stifling vital medical innovations. So argue health economists Tomas J. Philipson and Anupam B. Jena argue in a book published by the American Enterprise Institute. ... more »»
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Monday, September 29, 2008Health Alert: McCain vs. the Critics, Part IBy John GoodmanFiled As: Health CareIn my opinion, the McCain health plan would do two remarkable things. First, it would virtually eliminate long-term uninsurance. Almost no one would remain uninsured for more than a year, other than illegal aliens and people with unstable lifestyles. Second, it would completely transform the type of ... more »»
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Saturday, September 27, 2008The High Cost of School FailureBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Education (k-12)Seeing the price of public school operations consistently outpace inflation is bad enough. Even worse is having to pay a second time, as in when colleges must offer remedial education to high school graduates. The Arkansas Policy Foundation points out that several school districts in the state have ... more »»
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Saturday, September 27, 200898,000 Die Every Year From Medical Errors?By Greg ScandlenFiled As: Health CareMedical errors are tragic when they occur. Certainly hospitals should be places of safety, not of peril, and hospitals need to deal seriously with issues like medication errors, preventable infections, and even mundane things like hand washing between patients. But injecting hysteria is not helpful. more »»
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Friday, September 26, 2008Will Consumerism Come to Health Care by Default?By John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareHewitt Associates made news this week with the latest edition of its annual report on employer health care costs. A news article from more »»
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Friday, September 26, 2008Medical Licensing Makes Health Care More Expensive, Less AccessibleBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareHealth care professionals sell medical licensing to Americans as a vital public health safeguard. But a new report from the Cato Institute argues that medical licensing not only fails to protect consumers from incompetent physicians; raising ... more »»
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Saturday, September 27, 200845.7 Million or 8 Million?By Sally PipesFiled As: Health CareOfficials at the U.S. Census Bureau recently released new health insurance figures purporting to show that the number of Americans officially classified as uninsured in 2007 was 45.7 million, down from 47 million in 2006. Despite the decline, the new figure is being spun as proof positive that ... more »»
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Saturday, September 27, 2008Boston to End Canadian Drug ProgramBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareThe City of Boston, which was once a leader in the ill-advised move to import prescription drugs from Canada, will be ending the program. So says the Boston Globe. Importing ... more »»
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Friday, September 26, 2008Will Illinois' Hospital Uninsured Discount Act Protect Patients?Legislators have attacked the symptom, but not the cause, of hospitals' price gouging By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareBy a unanimous vote, Illinois legislators have passed the Hospital Uninsured Discount Act, which requires that hospitals charge uninsured ... more »»
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Friday, September 26, 2008Wisconsin's Government Retiree Health Care Costs Spiraling Out of ControlFiled As: Budget and Tax, Health Care, Municipal ServicesImagine you're a young guy who has just started dating the girl of your dreams. You get around to the discussion of how many people she has "been with." She says "two." (That's what girls always say, usually accompanied by an extensive story about how she dated some guy for ... more »»
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