Entries for 'John Goodman'

The biggest risk to reform has always been that the scheme would founder on its complexity....

...the liberals I encounter are all in the academic and public policy world ― far away from the poverty population they so often talk about....

A death spiral occurs when pricing in an insurance market spins out of control....

[M]ost of the specs have been written, but the all wiring hasn't been laid, and what will happen when they flip the switch nobody really knows....

Just as in Canada or Britain, we are going to experience rationing by waiting...

...as far as physical health is concerned there is no difference between being in Medicaid and being uninsured....

...liberalism is not an ideology at all; it is a sociology. The same may be said of conservatism....

...real billionaires, like Warren Buffett, are going to be affected very little by the new higher rates (unrealized capital gains will still be taxed at a rate of zero), while entrepreneurs with pass-through income are going to get hosed....

are six major flaws in ObamaCare. They are so serious that the Democrats are going to have to perform major surgery on the legislation in the next few years....

The high cost of many medical procedures in Alaska is driving a major insurance company, Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield, to offer coverage that pays airfare, hotel and other expenses for members to undergo the same treatment in Washington state at less cost....

Personalized medicine is the future. It is where the science is going. It is where the technology is going. It is where doctors and patients will want to go.

Over the next 10 years, ObamaCare will reduce Medicare spending by $716 billion....

Lie Number Five: Health Reform Is Going to Make Medicare More Efficient....

The health care system can't possibly deliver on the huge increase in demand for primary care services -- there aren't enough doctors....

This is a practical, realistic and workable form of universal coverage....

The single biggest mistake in all of health policy is the belief that the best way to make health care accessible is to make it free at the point of delivery....

There are two conservatives for every liberal in America. That’s the message of a recent David Brooks column as well as a Gallup survey. I think the imbalance is much starker. I would guess there are four conservatives for every liberal. Maybe even more.... 

Clinton was planning historic reforms during his second term. These were to include private accounts under Social Security and vouchers for Medicare.

...a small number of people spend most of the health care dollars. True. But the small number this year are not the same people as the small number last year, or the year before....

...most people on the left who use the word “progressive” are actually reactionaries....

To many people, the term “Progressive Era” evokes fond caricatures of Teddy Roosevelt and such reforms as safe food, the elimination of child labor and the eight-hour work day. Yet real progressivism was far more sinister....

This judgment is repeated so often and so forcefully that you will almost never see it questioned. And yet it may not be true....

What if you are in Hawaii and you need 15 days of hospital care instead of 10? Apparently you must pay out of your own pocket or forgo needed care.