Health Care

January 2, 2020 – Andrew Moran …… Clearly marked prices on private-sector cash-payment surgeries are a great thing. In fact, the competition of for-profit surgery centers drives down prices at more “traditional” (i.e., highly bureaucratized) hospitals. Continue reading →

December 30, 2019 – Gary M. Galles …… Medicare is not even close to sustainable in its present form, much less to be leveraged to cover the entire population. Continue reading →

December 17, 2019 – Jacob G. Hornberger …… Medicare and Medicaid ended up destroying the finest healthcare system in history, and the healthcare crisis has become a permanent part of American life. Continue reading →

November 27, 2019 – Jen Maffessanti …… Nationalizing health care into a single-payer format is popular, but how does it work in practice? Continue reading →

September 20, 2019 – Lee Friday …… In Canada, it is estimated that between 25,456 and 63,090 Canadian women may have died as a result of increased wait times for health care between 1993 and 2009, despite the government’s promise to make sure that people would have access to health care “when it was needed.” Continue reading →

September 17, 2019 – Gary North …… Here we see two rival strategies to marketing healthcare services. The status quo is based on insurance payments and price secrecy. Walmart’s strategy is based on price competition. Continue reading →

August 15, 2019 – Barry Brownstein …… For their unorthodox views, some physicians are being treated as medical heretics. Google’s search engine algorithm has essentially ended traffic to their websites. Continue reading →

June 12, 2019 – Lee Friday …… No, doctors have a right to decide which treatments they will offer. In contrast, Canada’s universal health care system is run by politicians and bureaucrats who are indeed playing God, with fatal consequences. Continue reading →

April 22, 2019 – Lee Friday …… Politicians and bureaucrats appear to be more dangerous to our health than smoking. Continue reading →

April 17, 2019 – Randall Holcombe …… Why would Mick Jagger choose to have surgery in the United States rather than get “free” health care from the British National Health Service? Continue reading →