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The proper role of Government in Health Care Reform – Part I: Market Failure
As a proponent of market-based health care reform, I’m often accused of believing that free markets will cure what ails our broken health care system and that we just need to get government out of the way to make it all better. I believe no such thing. And I almost...
Medical providers that publish prices: a radical approach to health reform?
The raging health reform debate has completely obscured recent disclosures by some medical providers of shocking information that has long been held among their most closely guarded secrets: their prices. These innovators are responding to the rapid four-year growth...
Government rationing for real
I recently posted a blog on why government rationing of health care is utterly unnecessary, not to mention immoral. I’ve also written about how the current House version of health reform, supported by the President and the AMA, will inevitably herd us into a...