For-Profit Insurance: The 800# Gorilla of Health Care
South Shore Progressive posted a piece from Dr. Robert Stone of Bloomington, IN who suggested that for-profit insurance companies are the 800 pound gorilla in reforming our dying health care system....
View ArticleA Primer on How Hospitals Get Paid
Uwe Reinhardt has written a primer on how hospitals get paid. Government programs like Medicare and Medicaid might not be the most rational approach, but the free market is not doing any better for...
View ArticleHealth Care Debate Getting Started
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, writing for the Associated Press, has an article on the debate over the appropriate role of government in the health care insurance field. Leading Republicans apparently do not...
View ArticleLots of Uninsured in Indiana
Michael Schroeder of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reports on a study showing that a significant chunk of Hoosiers lack health insurance. The study looked at the years 2007-2008 and vary depending on...
View ArticleWhat Should a Good Health Care System Look Like?
One night, years ago, a fraternity brother and I sat up late into the night before another friend’s wedding, soaking in a hot tub, getting drunk and solving the problems of America’s legal system. The...
View ArticleAnswering Questions on Health Care
I came across some questions by Fort Wayne Libertarian, Robert Enders, on health care, and felt compelled to try to offer some answers. Q: If the current economic situation means we need to fix...
View ArticleU.S. Health Care & Performance Compared to Other Countries
I copied this table from a Wikipedia entry. Hopefully the formatting isn’t too awful. In any case, two things I have heard frequently in the health care debate are “the U.S. has the best health care in...
View ArticleRecalling Objections to Medicare
Thomas Langhorne has an interesting article in the Evansville Courier Press interviewing a long time Evansville doctor on his opinions about the creation of Medicare. He was opposed to the socialized...
View ArticlePaying for health care with savings from waste
Campaign season traditionally has a lot of promises from candidates about the things government will do for you if only that candidate is elected. When asked how this will be paid for, often...
View ArticleIndiana Health Care Stats
Maureen Groppe, writing for Gannett News Service, has a nice run down of health care numbers for Indiana. This wasn’t directly mentioned in the article, but one thing that struck me was that Indiana’s...
View ArticleFor-Profit Insurance: The 800# Gorilla of Health Care
South Shore Progressive posted a piece from Dr. Robert Stone of Bloomington, IN who suggested that for-profit insurance companies are the 800 pound gorilla in reforming our dying health care system....
View ArticleA Primer on How Hospitals Get Paid
Uwe Reinhardt has written a primer on how hospitals get paid. Government programs like Medicare and Medicaid might not be the most rational approach, but the free market is not doing any better for...
View ArticleHealth Care Debate Getting Started
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, writing for the Associated Press, has an article on the debate over the appropriate role of government in the health care insurance field. Leading Republicans apparently do not...
View ArticleLots of Uninsured in Indiana
Michael Schroeder of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reports on a study showing that a significant chunk of Hoosiers lack health insurance. The study looked at the years 2007-2008 and vary depending on...
View ArticleWhat Should a Good Health Care System Look Like?
One night, years ago, a fraternity brother and I sat up late into the night before another friend’s wedding, soaking in a hot tub, getting drunk and solving the problems of America’s legal system. The...
View ArticleAnswering Questions on Health Care
I came across some questions by Fort Wayne Libertarian, Robert Enders, on health care, and felt compelled to try to offer some answers. Q: If the current economic situation means we need to fix...
View ArticleU.S. Health Care & Performance Compared to Other Countries
I copied this table from a Wikipedia entry. Hopefully the formatting isn’t too awful. In any case, two things I have heard frequently in the health care debate are “the U.S. has the best health care in...
View ArticleRecalling Objections to Medicare
Thomas Langhorne has an interesting article in the Evansville Courier Press interviewing a long time Evansville doctor on his opinions about the creation of Medicare. He was opposed to the socialized...
View ArticlePaying for health care with savings from waste
Campaign season traditionally has a lot of promises from candidates about the things government will do for you if only that candidate is elected. When asked how this will be paid for, often...
View ArticleIndiana Health Care Stats
Maureen Groppe, writing for Gannett News Service, has a nice run down of health care numbers for Indiana. This wasn’t directly mentioned in the article, but one thing that struck me was that Indiana’s...
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