The average obese American consumes a beefy 42% more in medical costs than his normally-weighted neighbor. So says an article published today in the journal Health Affairs. Last year, such avoidable avoirdupois boosted health care spending by a corpulent $147 billion....
In a 7/19/9 New York Times Magazine article “Why We Must Ration Health Care,” Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer argues that we need government to actively ration the amount of medical care Americans get, particularly as they near the ends of their lives. ...
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...
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...
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...
You may have picked up on the recent media blitz relating President Obama’s meeting with a coalition of health industry leaders pledging to voluntarily cut $2 trillion of health care spending over 10 years. Don’t take it seriously. It won’t happen. In fact, nothing...
