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The 7 myths of massively ineffective health care reform

The 7 myths of massively ineffective health care reform

The government’s full-court press on health reform, epitomized by the awesomely inapt and inept Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (AHCA) now wending its way through the House, is trying to petrify in amber many of the myths that dominate so much of our thinking...

An unalienable right to health care?

An unalienable right to health care?

It’s a typically cool, cloudless July 4th morning in Colorado Springs, so my mind inevitably wanders to…what else but health reform. When, oh when, will we have the market-based health care system we need so that I can move on to addressing simpler problems? Like...

Lower administrative costs for Government Health Insurance ?

Lower administrative costs for Government Health Insurance ?

One of President Obama’s claims during his ABC News health care reform TV special last week was that a public health insurance option would have lower administrative costs than competing private plans. This, he claimed, would allow the public plan to offer lower...