This blog’s readers are better informed than most about the (somewhat complicated) question of how health insurers will be compensated for bearing risk in ObamaCare’s health insurance…
I’ve written about sky-high hospital prices in this blog, especially for uninsured patients who present at emergency rooms. A related issue is price transparency. In most normal…
Professor John H. Cochrane of the University of Chicago had an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on December 25, in which he gave a brief description…
Two recent posts have discussed out of control prices for hospitals’ services, especially in ERs. The first argued that sky-high hospital prices are the result of government…
A previous blog entry tried to shed some light on the phenomenon of hospital charges that are out of control, such as $500 for a single stitch. A previous…
If even The Wall Street Journal covers reforming the tax code to allow individuals to own their own health insurance in “Republicans Shy Away From Their Own…
Back in 1993, the economists Jonathan Gruber and Brigitte C. Madrian highlighted the problem of “job lock”, a consequence of employer-based health benefits. Gruber and Madrian figured…
Despite its editorial position in favor of more government control of people’s access to medical care, the New York Times has an excellent track record of journalism covering the…
Devon Herrick has already addressed some of the shortcomings of the Commonwealth Fund’s latest survey of eleven developed countries, which questions thousa Devon Herrick has already addressed…
Most Americans are now aware of the disastrous rollout of ObamaCare health-insurance exchanges for privately insured people. However, this has sidelined discussion of the pain that ObamaCare is…
