Mitt Romney appeared on one of today’s Sunday morning talk shows and was bragging yet again about the great success of the state health care plan instituted when he was governor of Massachusetts. Considering the current debate in Congress over health care reform, his comments were particularly galling and more than a little misleading. The … Continue reading Health care reform: Mass fail
*** Rant Warning *** What to do about health care costs. What to do … I got an email today from Senators Leahy, Durbin, and Schumer asking me to sign their petition supporting a public option for health insurance. (Apparently the DNC just cannot accept that my buying an Obama bumper sticker last fall does … Continue reading Psst, want to buy a bridge?
So now the American Medical Association has come out against public health insurance. They were, if you’ll recall, one of the groups that rushed to sign a letter to Pres. Obama saying how supportive and helpful they planned to be during this latest effort to reduce America’s health care costs. And a public health insurance … Continue reading Health care reform? In your dreams
Monday I wrote about Betsy McCaughey’s Bloomberg commentary on health care provisions in the stimulus bill. Based on what she said, I grew quite concerned about the future of my health care in particular. Since then, I’ve tried to confirm what McCaughey said, primarily by looking up text of the bill so I could read … Continue reading McCaughey off the mark on stimulus bill
[Note: Apparently the link to the McCaughey story referenced below was broken when this entry was posted. The problem has been corrected and I apologize to my readers.] Barack Obama and I may be about to part company over the stimulus bill currently being debated in Congress. Not all of it. Just the parts that … Continue reading Health care reform hiding in stimulus bill
At last, a sensible approach to the health care crisis in the U.S. City Journal has posted an article, “Mandates Are Not the Answer,” by David Gratzer, a physician, and Paul Howard, a medical editor, who understand the fix we need is not as simple as the presidential candidates propose. Our health care system didn’t … Continue reading Beware playing games with our health care system
