Opinion
Socializing healthcare won’t end scarcity
In government-run systems, that scarcity doesn't go away. It's just that bureaucrats and government boards, rather than insurance companies, decide what is covered and what is not.
News
Independent surgery center offers cashed-based, transparent prices
Surgeon Wade Naziri offers his patients transparent, cash-based prices at his independent surgery center. It’s a novel concept in an environment of rising costs and hidden prices. Naziri began fighting for price transparency because his patients couldn’t afford out-of-network weight loss surgery at Greenville’s local hospital — which billed one of his patients $54,000. So,...
Opinion
States should drive health reform
Democrats and Republicans have been debating health care reform for decades in Washington. It’s the wrong location — and which national plan to adopt is the wrong question.
Opinion
Sanders, Warren, and the problem with taxes
The Democratic party’s most radically progressive candidates, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, have promised to impose a tax on wealth. To be clear, wealth is distinct from income. Wealth is accumulated income in the form of savings and investments and real assets such as real estate, antique or art collections, plant and equipment for a...
