3G Health Care

Peter Suderman does an excellent job of clarifying Ezra Klein’s misconceptions about health care. This is the house they’ve built: an insurance market where plans are written for the healthy and all legal efforts are made to exclude the sick. That’s meant premiums are somewhat lower than they’d otherwise be, but only because the people [...]

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For a Hamburger today…

There’s a reason a big-ass lie is called a “whopper”.  Someone’s going to try to convince you this is a good deal. The CBO reported late today, in a letter to Senator Bauccus, the CBO spelled out the news. That net cost itself reflects a gross total of $829 billion in credits and subsidies provided [...]

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Responding to a call for socialized health care

Take a look at this video. The video is useful because the producer really tries to strip away many confusing aspects of the health care industry, and in doing so, presents a very clear case for single-payer, government-run, socialized health care. The clarity is a strength and a weakness, because the argument is exposed for [...]

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How would the elderly purchase insurance in a free market?

At Cafe Hayek, a reader asked Russ Roberts how the elderly would be able to purchase health insurance on a free market, one without Medicare or Medicaid. Tom’s question is interesting. But it’s the wrong question. And that Tom asks it and that everyone answered it is fascinating in and of itself. It’s the wrong question [...]

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Insurance companies buy risk

Something that has puzzled me  about the debate on health care reform is the framing of insurance companies as organizations that fund health care for their customers.  Advocates of the public option offer the idea that the government will be better able to to provide health care, as against the insurance companies, which have failed [...]

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