Showing posts with label health insurance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health insurance. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

The Health-Care Nirvana Fallacy

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Someone explain how coercive centralized bureaucratic control of medical decision-making and the purse can beat the decentralized free marke...
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Thursday, July 13, 2017

Market-Based Medical Care for All

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My latest article for the American Institute for Economic Research is "Market-Based Medical Care for All."
Friday, March 24, 2017

One More Flaw in Conservative Health Care Reform

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Conservatives oppose federally mandated health insurance benefits (maternity, etc.), but they favor states having the power to mandate such...
Friday, March 17, 2017

TGIF: Things to Keep in Mind During the Health Care Debate

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As the debate proceeds over what should succeed the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), here are a few basic ideas to keep in mind. Read TG...
Monday, April 04, 2016

Man's Inhumanity to Man

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Customer : Hello, Home Warranty Co.? My A/C system broke down. I'd like coverage for it. Home Warranty person : Do you have a policy wi...
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Saturday, March 03, 2012

Question

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What's there to say about a person who can't tell the difference between contraception and conscience?
Saturday, February 18, 2012

The “Accommodation” that Changes Nothing

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Hat tip: Mario Rizzo Scenario: A woman who works for a Catholic hospital walks into a pharmacy and fills her birth-control prescription. ...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

Bad Deal

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No woman would choose to spend her own money on birth-control "coverage," because the premiums would amount to prepayment for futu...
Saturday, April 09, 2011

Think Dialectically

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The title of the post is the advice my old friend Chris Matthew Sciabarra would surely give about proposals to change or abolish Medicare an...
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

One Last Time: Markets Don't Ration!

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The Wall Street Journal takes Donald Berwick, likely the next Medicare chief, to task for saying, “The decision is not whether or not w...
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Friday, February 12, 2010

Obama: Enemy of the Working Class

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Barack Obama, the current White House occupant, recently reaffirmed his support for employer-based health insurance. In my book that makes h...
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Friday, December 04, 2009

Op-ed: Kill the Insurance Mandate

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Everyone who believes he lives in a free country should be asking himself, By what authority do the Congress and the president force me to b...
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Friday, November 27, 2009

TGIF: The Power to Tax is the Power

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The authority for forcing us to buy health insurance is said to be the Commerce Clause and the taxing power. TGIF looks at these claims. Re...
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Friday, November 20, 2009

TGIF

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Want to know how the politicians justify forcing us to buy health insurance? I discuss their screwball grounds in this week’s TGIF .
Saturday, November 14, 2009

Health Insurance Scam

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How can you get insurance for a volitional act? Regardless of one’s position on abortion, there is no denying that it is something a woman c...
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Monday, October 12, 2009

Insurance Companies Want a Mandate with Teeth

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The health-insurance lobbyist complains that under the proposed healthcare overhaul the penalties on individuals who don't buy coverag...
Friday, September 11, 2009

TGIF - ObamaCare: Status Quo on Steroids

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Let’s begin by noting that the so-called health-insurance companies deserve little sympathy. As they exist today, they are very much creatur...