Nothing So Permanent As a Goverment Program The original Friedman quote said “temporary government program” but I think it works this way as well. And today’s...
(Re)Peeling An Onion: Obamacare Edition Obamacare, like ogres and onions, stinks and has layers. Repealing it involves removing those layers and at the very...
Zeke Emanuel: Always Arrogant, Frequently Wrong. Ezekiel Emanuel (yes Rahm’s brother) was the true architect of Obamacare, not Jonathan Gruber (who merely did some economics...
Insurance and Economic Illiteracy Much of this will likely come as no surprise to the readers of this blog, whom I suspect are...
Some Pushback Against Transgender Insanity The American College of Pediatricians has issued a statement that is shocking in its frankness and lack of sensitivity...
California Supports Hyper-Regulation Of Everything, Even Suicide The difference between allowing a suicidal person access to a gun with which to end his life, and access...
Why Should The FDA Be Allowed To Tell Us What Drugs To Take, And Not To Take? A recent article in the NY Times about the FDA regulator responsible for oncology drugs, and his miraculous epiphany...
Then I took a Kenneth Arrow to the knee Blog host CBD asks us is healthcare demand really elastic? The answer is a complicated mess of “yes, sometimes, but...
Is Health Care Demand Really Elastic? In an otherwise unremarkable article about what everyone who is paying any attention has seen, and remarked upon, The...
The Reanimation of the Clinic’s corpse “Foucault’s clinic is dead.” So starts Daniel Sulmasy’s book The Rebirth of the Clinic. My department chair will tell...