Health Care Myth Busters

Heartland, the Art of Protest, and the Desire for Real Debate - Innovation is a risky business, a venture seldom without controversy and conflict. Those who question conventionality, who challenge the status-quo, place ...

Scott Summer vs. Brad Delong, and Other News - Scott Sumner responds to Brad Delong: Yes, government did cause the Great Depression. Why do airlines charge $25 for checking bags, but not for bringing hu...

My Second Year Battling Obamacare: Hitting the Century Mark ( Health Care ) - A year ago, I published a law review article detailing “my first year battling Obamacare.” That essay wove the main legal arguments and judicial opinion...

Obamacare's Medical-Device Tax to Cost $2 Billion R&D, 1 Million Life-Years, Annually - Obamacare levies an excise tax on medical devices that will reduce research & development investment by over $2 billion every year, beginning in 2013. This...

Government’s New “Top 10 Hit List” Creates Incentive Not to Treat Sick Patients - CMS acting administrator, Marylin Tavenner, is urging all Medicare Administrative Contractors (MAC) to develop a “Top 10” Hit list of physicians who provid...

Reason-Rupe Poll: Americans Don't Think Health Care or Broccoli Mandates Are Constitutional - As the Supreme Court hears challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act this week, a new Reason-Rupe poll of 1,200 adults finds 62 percen...

The Young are the Restless: Demographic Changes under Health Reform - The Young are the Restless: Demographic Changes under Health Reform Milliman Insight By Mary Van Der Heijde and Doug Norris August 30, 2011 http://insight...

Let’s Talk About Debt Baby -

Health Care Bill Passes House - Last night by a vote of 219-212 the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR3590, which was previously passed by the Senate on Christmas Eve. They passed t...

More Health Care Lessons from Massachusetts - A colleague at the Commonwealth Foundation sent me an article in which Mitt Romney again declares Massachusetts health care reform a success, claiming the ...