Healthcare

None of these eight reforms rub hard on ideological wounds. They can all be pursued without touching existing entitlement systems and legacy welfare provision. They would amount to the first major steps toward creating parallel systems of experimentation, all within the framework of the existing system. It seems like they should earn bipartisan support. 

Because of Medicaid’s matching grant system, states have no incentive to cut wasteful or fraudulent Medicaid outlays and every incentive to increase both.

The statist mixed economy, not capitalism, is to blame for Americans’ poor health and poor diet.

This “tax exclusion” for employer-sponsored health insurance is the original sin of US health policy.

The previous administration specifically targeted Jay Bhattacharya, calling him a “fringe epidemiologist” and sought to censor his opinions. This quiet academic who stood up for principle when it mattered has found himself picked to head the world’s most powerful scientific agency.

The government has been taking away people’s rights to make their own health decisions for 90 years without ever studying whether its interventions are benefiting patients.

Kennedy says he is not anti-vaccine but merely “asking uncomfortable questions.”

Increase HSA contribution limits so nearly all workers could deposit 100 percent of what their employer pays toward health benefits tax‐​free into an HSA.

One Health, as newly embraced by the CDC, amounts to a radical transformation of the basis of social order itself, under the guidance of god-like scientists who alone know how to structure the best life for all living things, even if that comes at the expense of human flourishing.

People are shocked at the murder of the United Healthcare CEO and those who support the actions of the murderer. They rightfully denounce the murderer and those who support him. However, no one has identified the fundamental reason why many people think the murder is justified.

Critics who applaud violence against executives like Brian Thompson misunderstand how the healthcare system operates — and seem content to wallow in those adolescent misapprehensions.

Typhoid was ultimately conquered not by jails but by sanitation, hygiene, and antibiotics.

Conti, Frank, and Cutler shatter the common myths that the United States has “largely unregulated prices” for medical care or is “one of the only developed countries where health care is left mostly to the free market.”

Former president Donald Trump is pitching himself to voters as the antidote to the Biden administration’s inflationary policies. That will require ditching the interventionism his running mate has previously championed.

Virtually all discussion of health care policy today avoids explicit reference to underlying principles.

Declining reimbursement rates, on top of losses in purchasing power, result in reduced access to care, as some physicians have limited the number of Medicare patients they accept or have stopped accepting new Medicare patients altogether.

It is precisely because our health care is so important to each of us that we need to be especially careful to preserve and protect the rights of physicians and other health care providers.

The goal of all of it was to keep natural immunity from ruining the chance for the mRNA shots to save the day.

When government asserts control over your health care, it creates opportunities for low‐​quality providers to lobby for subsidies and regulations that protect them from competition from high‐​quality producers.

How the government drove out the science of risk from the entire business of consumer pricing of health care insurance.

Seemingly out of nowhere, people who the public had largely ignored, the public health bureaucrats, all united to tell the executives in charge – mayors, governors, and the president – that the only way to deal with a respiratory virus was to scrap freedom and the Bill of Rights. 

Why should Canadians embrace private health care as a moral alternative to medicare, as citizens of most other countries do?