July 2, 2012
The Individual Mandate Isn’t A Tax, Wait, It Is A Tax, Wait, It Isn’t, I Mean…
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June 28, 2012
Republican Reaction To Obamacare Supreme Court Ruling Is Way Over-The-Top
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June 28, 2012
Health Care Individual Mandate Upheld, Confidence In The Supreme Court Restored
Well, today at least.
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June 24, 2012
The Naiveté Of Advocating A Free Market Health Care System
In case you didn’t notice, the current health care system in the United States is already a free market system. There are winners and losers. There are some people who can afford to participate and others who get left behind. This is how any market works, and this is how our current health care system (which isn’t really a system at all) is working, or should I say, is not working.
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May 4, 2012
America Has The Best Health Care? Not In A Fact-Based World.
The United States of America has the highest health care costs of 13 industrialized countries with an average cost of $8,000 per person in 2009. Japan has the lowest costs at just $2,878 per person in 2008. This is from a study by The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation whose mission is to “promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society’s most vulnerable”.
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April 6, 2012
Health Care Is Rationed By Private For-Profit Insurance Companies. Is That Really What We Want?
We are told by conservatives that we don’t want government-run universal health care because it would mean rationing care. During the health care debate in the summer and fall of 2009 we heard talk of ‘death panels’ and ‘killing grandma’. Of course all of this was nonsense meant to scare people into thinking and voting a certain way, and it was quite effective, particularly on the Republican side of the aisle. The truth is we already ration health care in the United States. 50 million people are uninsured. How is that not rationed care? Health care costs are higher than they need to be (due to insurance company profits and waste) which means in some cases people forego treatment because they can’t afford it (even if they have insurance). How is that not rationed care?
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April 2, 2012
Obamacare, Medicare, Veterans Affairs: The Conservative Cognitive Dissonance Is Deafening
There are countless conservatives in this country who support Medicare and support Veterans Affairs (VA) but are against the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). They are against the idea of universal health care at the federal level. There is a cognitive dissonance at play here that is rarely discussed during health care debates in the media. We take it at face value that conservatives are against federally controlled universal health care as a matter of principle, but apparently their principles are malleable when it comes to Medicare and Veterans Affairs.
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April 1, 2012
Does The ‘Individual Mandate’ Argument Boil Down To Semantics?
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March 31, 2012
Obamacare: Attempting To Redefine A Once Pejorative Term
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