Healthcare

Using the phrase “Medicare’s trust fund” for any reason other than exposing its falsehood is grossly misleading. It implies there’s a pot of money available to fund Medicare, when no such pot exists.

The AAP, originally created a century ago to advocate for pediatricians and their patients, has devolved into an advertiser and lobbyist for the corporate interests that fund their operations. So much for “dedicated to the health of all children.”

Journalism does Valjean a further injustice when it focuses only on the bone and not the boot.

The American frustration with government regulated private insurance does not prove the need for a Canadian- or European-style system.

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.

To contain Medicare spending, Congress must break the grip the health care industry has on Medicare.

The changes that House Republicans have proposed fall far short of what Congress must do to make health care better, more affordable, and more secure.

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.