Hats off to John C. Goodman again! His work in leading the effort for market-based healthcare reform over the past 4 decades, and highlighting the government’s role in the dysfunctional mess we labor in, is second to none. This Forbes …
Category: Large group insurance market
Who Wouldn’t Have Coverage If the Obamacare Mandate Is Repealed | The Heritage Foundation
…a recent review of the academic literature on the subject finds a mixed bag, but with the strongest link between coverage and health outcomes in cases where health insurance coverage improves access to care, “particularly among people with lower incomes and chronic …
Save Us From The Health Care Reformers: They’re The Problem, Not The Solution
Dr. Goodman’s article is a fantastic foray into the dark history organized medicine, culminating with a brutally honest assessment of the cartel that resulted. He gives a great preview of the good stuff in Greg Scandlen’s new book, Myth Busters: Why Health …
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A Path Towards a Viable Interstate Health Insurance Market | Robert Nelson, MD | Pulse | LinkedIn
Alternatives to our current over-priced and dysfunctional health insurance market are often biased, and thus limited, by our current operational and regulatory structure. These structures are so entrenched in our healthcare psyche that it makes it difficult sometimes to set these …
Obamacare Replacement Act – Senate Bill 222 by Senator Rand Paul – KY
Lots to like and consider here. We need more details about how tax equalization in the group market vs the individual market will be handled. The expansion of uses and benefits of HSAs is robust and will go along way …
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More Employers Investigating Benefits of Private Exchanges | The Institute for HealthCare Consumerism
Private exchanges have been creating a buzz in the employer-sponsored health care marketplace. After a flurry of activity in 2013 and 2014 among large employers, many feel we have moved beyond the “early adopter” stage and are poised for broader …
Should Employers Be Required To Provide Health Insurance To Their Employees? – Forbes
Let’s go to the basics. Corporations are not people. They don’t feel pain. They don’t feel pleasure. In court they are treated as a person, but everyone understands this is a “legal fiction.” If you tax a corporation you …
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One Good Result and One Bad Result of Obamacare – Daniel J. Mitchell – Townhall Finance Conservative Columnists and Financial Commentary – Page full
Only 11 percent of health care spending in America is directly financed by consumers. The rest is paid for by taxpayers, insurance companies, and other third parties. This has eviscerated the normal working of a competitive market. When people are …
