Negative Space: health care
- The Democrat’s anti-health health-care plan
- The new Kennedy health care plan supported by the Obama administration appears to be designed to reduce consumer choice and increase consumer costs.
- Discouraging health insurance competition
- The largest problem with our current health care system is that competition is actively discouraged at every level. Rather than making that problem worse, we should be encouraging real competition among insurance providers and health care providers.
- Everybody gets $7,000 a year
- Charles Murray argues that we can vastly reduce the cost of the welfare system and social security simply by giving everyone $7,000 a year plus a health plan.
- Exchanging the market for high prices and corruption
- The Democratic health insurance exchange looks like it’s going to make many of the same mistakes politicians made in California when they tried to choke electrical power through a power exchange.
- Government food courts
- Imagine there’s no grocery… it isn’t hard to do… nothing to grill or fry for…… and no bacon too…
- Gravity-driven health care
- All government programs are market-driven, just like all government buildings are gravity-driven. We cannot escape the laws of nature simply by adding the word “government” to the beginning of a phrase.
- Health care for prisoners
- Our criminal justice system must account for the possibility that it is wrong. Decent health care is one of the most obvious ways it should do this.
- Health care the Chicago way
- You can’t fight the law of supply and demand. All you can do is increase the costs of compliance.
- Keep plucking that Congress
- The more people who can afford their own health care and insurance, the easier it will be to care for the rest.
- Phase 1: Reforming health care
- Our current health care system works so poorly we want to expand it: instead of a bunch of huge organizations vying for the attention of multiple employers, we’re going to have a few (at best) even bigger organizations vying for the attention of government bureaucrats. Why not come up with some reform that actually reforms?
- Private Health Care in Jails Can Be a Death Sentence
- Paul von Zielbauer at the New York Times writes about the piss-poor health care available to prisoners.
- Removing any motive to help patients
- “Removing the profit motive” from health care removes the motive to help patients.
- S-CHIP redux
- Yeah, remember that? Both sides wanted to spend more. And yet their examples were all people who had insurance under the current system.
- San Francisco-style budgeting
- The health “reform” bill appears to be bringing San Francisco-style budgeting to Washington.
- Universal Health Care
- Should I quit my job and rely on public health care? Why do we rely on employers to provide something as important as our health care?
- When You’ve Got Health, You’ve Got Everything
- Freedom? Five bucks. Health? Five bucks. Inciteful Fiction? Free!
- Why we must not ration health care
- Rationing health care means fewer cures.
