Overstating Health Care Gaps
When the legislative monstrosity of Obamacare is repealed – yes, I know I said “when” – lawmakers will have another chance to get reform right.
Health care portability is an important goal. But COBRA isn’t the right way to do it, subsidy or not.
There's no reason to believe increased government interference will improve education and health care in North Carolina.
There’s no reason to believe the government can do the best job promoting our health and teaching our kids.
Let’s play a game. Call it Pin the Tail on the Wonky. I’ll describe a health-care system. You decide whether it is likely to be applauded by the Left or Right.
With the presidential primary campaigns in full gear, health care is again a main issue. Each of the major candidates has a plan for addressing the cost, coverage, and quality of modern medical care in America.
The lack of universal, single-payer health insurance run by the government does not explain health disparities within the U.S. or between its citizens and those of other countries.
Health-care costs are growing rapidly. What is in dispute is why those costs are surging, who is paying them, and how to address the issue without causing other problems, economic or medical.
A new paper punctures the mythology surrounding government-run health insurance as superior to private markets — just in time to dovetail with a Wednesday luncheon in Raleigh on the subject.
The great debate over health inflation didn't end with the demise of HillaryCare in 1993. It's back with a vengeance, as demonstrated by our state budget crisis and double-digit increases in private insurance costs.
Medical inflation is back with a vengeance, but to the dismay of “single-payer” advocates it may lead not to abolishing private insurance but instead to new ways of empowering families to make their own health care decisions.