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March 26, 2020 – Matthew Tanous …… The Italians could learn some lessons about healthcare from the South Koreans, who still maintain a robust private market in health insurance. Although the Koreans have relatively ample resources for COVID-19 patients, Italy’s state-dominated system is quickly running out of options.
February 12, 2020 – William L. Anderson …… To a socialist socialism is a moral imperative, and the only thing holding back the implementation of this system in the US has been the failure of socialists to present a plausible alternative — something that socialists claim now is being done.
February 11, 2020 – J. Kyle DeVries …… Was healthcare a natural right two hundred years ago? If so, how is it that this “right” to eighteenth-century medicine morphed into a right to MRIs and chemotherapy? Do rights change with technology? That’s not how rights work.
January 2, 2020 – Andrew Moran …… Clearly marked prices on private-sector cash-payment surgeries are a great thing. In fact, the competition of for-profit surgery centers drives down prices at more “traditional” (i.e., highly bureaucratized) hospitals.
December 30, 2019 – Gary M. Galles …… Medicare is not even close to sustainable in its present form, much less to be leveraged to cover the entire population.
December 17, 2019 – Jacob G. Hornberger …… Medicare and Medicaid ended up destroying the finest healthcare system in history, and the healthcare crisis has become a permanent part of American life.
November 27, 2019 – Jen Maffessanti …… Nationalizing health care into a single-payer format is popular, but how does it work in practice?
September 20, 2019 – Lee Friday …… In Canada, it is estimated that between 25,456 and 63,090 Canadian women may have died as a result of increased wait times for health care between 1993 and 2009, despite the government’s promise to make sure that people would have access to health care “when it was needed.”
September 17, 2019 – Gary North …… Here we see two rival strategies to marketing healthcare services. The status quo is based on insurance payments and price secrecy. Walmart’s strategy is based on price competition.
August 15, 2019 – Barry Brownstein …… For their unorthodox views, some physicians are being treated as medical heretics. Google’s search engine algorithm has essentially ended traffic to their websites.