I met an unusual hospital administrator the other day. He has actually begun posting ranges of prices for some procedures. Truly remarkable. He is concerned about the abuses of the so-called “not for profit” hospitals in his state and would actually...
In a meeting last week with some health policy analysts, one of the statist participants invoked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) as a source of reliable “science.” The primary source of revenue for the IOM? If you guessed the federal government, you get...
During a radio interview the day before yesterday, a caller, a surgeon from Ohio, made an incredibly insightful point. I had just repeated Jane Orient’s pithy quote, “coverage doesn’t mean care,” the idea being that just because you have an...
The National Health Service in Great Britain has made no secret about their use of the “Liverpool Care Pathway” as their favorite method to kill sick people. They have even admitted to using this method, which consists of denying food and water to...
Much can be learned by the reaction to the refusal of several governors to implement exchanges or expand Medicaid in their respective states. I have written at length about the usefullness of Rothbard’s “cui bono” (“who benefits”)...
Ron Hera writes in the Mises Institute’s “The Free Market” publication the following: ”The U.S. economy is anything but a free market today. In fact, the U.S. government increasingly resembles an oligarchy in which the oligarchs are large...
Here is a view from the New York Times of an almost uncontaminated health cartel arrangement in Idaho, a preview of what’s in store for us with the Unaffordable Care Act and an indication of why the corporate health stocks went wild after Roberts’ Supreme...
The U.S. government already sent the country over the [fiscal] cliff years ago; it’s just taken this long to (possibly) acknowledge reality. Legislators may strike a “compromise deal” that will postpone the crisis yet again, but soon enough it will return and with...
Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even...
Our slavery is ingenious because it’s so very subtle. Most people not only don’t see (much less feel) their shackles – they get angry when someone calls attention to them. Most people, in other words, still imagine themselves to be free. This despite the obvious fact...
Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.