As I’ve written before, our method of financing health care creates serious, unnecessary obstacles to entrepreneurship and innovation. In the name of avoiding “Socialism” we have created enormous obstacles to Capitalism with serious consequences for those trapped in our dying…
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Obamacare and Waterloo revisited
Tagged with: aca, affordable care act, employment, entrepreneurship, obamacare, unemployment
Posted in Health Care
Posted in Health Care
American conservatives could learn from Israel
Religious fundamentalists in the US have a favorite foreign country. They revere Israel, campaign there, and use it as a prop for fundraising. Their reverence for Israel might prove useful if they took the time to actually look at the…
Tagged with: fundamentalist, israel, republican, socialism, socialist
Posted in Health Care, Religious Right
Posted in Health Care, Religious Right
What Comes After Obamacare
The GOP has embarked yet another desperate push to persuade the public that the Affordable Care Act is too flawed to tolerate. The far right wins this ill-conceived campaign they may be very, very disappointed when they see their prize.…
Tagged with: affordable care act, death panel, healthcare.gov, keep your insurance, medicaid, obamacare, single payer
Posted in Health Care, Tea Party
Posted in Health Care, Tea Party
Universal Health Care for the Ownership Society
Sooner or later, Republicans will be forced to offer a pragmatic alternative to the Affordable Care Act. We haven’t done this because health care is a miserable political swamp for the GOP. It forces us out of our comfort zone,…
Tagged with: affordable care act, health care, health insurance, obamacare
Posted in Health Care, Ownership Society
Posted in Health Care, Ownership Society
Health Care is Not a Market
“Where it is impossible to create the conditions necessary to make competition effective, we should resort to other methods of guiding economic activity.” -Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, p.37 Here’s a simple solution to our health care mess. Eliminate…
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