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Can a Voucher System Fix American Healthcare?

Friday, March 21st, 2008

A previous post considered the main problem with current healthcare financing as described by Drs. Fuchs and Emanuel, namely, that individuals are actually paying for their own healthcare today, but are led to believe that the cost is actually “shared” by businesses and government. Since they believe they are getting something for nothing, there […]

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Healthcare Economics, Explained At Last

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Dr. Gaulte of Retired Doc’s Thoughts recently suggested that DrRich might want to weigh in on the Fuchs-Emanuel “Universal Health Care Voucher” proposal for financing American healthcare. Specifically, Dr.Gaulte allowed that he has trouble implementing his normally reliable “follow-the-money” rule to figure out whether this voucher system makes sense, or why neither the Republicans (who […]

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Wonkonians Should Read Their Own Work Product

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

According to Fortune Magazine senior editor Geoff Colvin, if you ask Alan Greenspan what the biggest threat is to the U.S. economy, he answers with one word: Medicare.
Greenspan is relatively sanguine about the sub-prime troubles, the housing crash, the falling dollar, and the trade deficit, all of which are relatively routine economic challenges which will […]

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Why We Can’t Do Cardiac Screening In Athletes

Friday, February 29th, 2008

DB has put up an interesting post today about the need to do cardiac screening in athletes. He points us to an article in the New York Times that describes an athletic screening program now in place at the University of Tennessee. According to the Times,
Cardiologists and other heart experts say that the […]

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Why Healthcare Inflation Cannot Be Explained By Waste and Inefficiency

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Sundry proposals for healthcare reform are being advanced today by, among others, that class of Americans who would like to become Our Next President. DrRich has avoided discussing the specifics of the various proposals made by these individuals because, well, so have they.
But whatever their proposals, whether of the Wonkonian or Gekkonian variety, there is […]

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