I don’t agree with the way he states everything in the article, but John Mark Reynolds gives some good thoughts on the health care bill. Here is one of his most significant points: The more serious problem is what it might begin to do to us as human beings. Giving more power to the central […]

Thomas Sowell gives some very sensible thoughts on health care reform in his latest column. Here are the first few paragraphs, which provide one of the most succinct summaries of the key issues that I’ve seen: Most discussions of health care are like something out of Alice in Wonderland. What is the biggest complaint about […]

On Friday we discussed Rudy Giulian’s point that leadership involves applying a well-thought-out set of beliefs to the real world. Then we gave education as one example. Health care is another good example that Giuliani gives, also from his book Leadership: I practiced the same discipline in examining the purpose of New York City’s hospitals […]

Thomas Sowell does a good job of explaining in a recent column how costs are not reduced simply because you pay them in another form. We are incessantly being told that the cost of medical care is “too high”– either absolutely or as a growing percentage of our incomes. But nothing that is being proposed […]

The Wall Street Journal has an important article from a few days ago highlighting some of the important passages in the 2,000 page legislation. Here are the first two highlights: Sec. 202 (p. 91-92) of the bill requires you to enroll in a “qualified plan.” If you get your insurance at work, your employer will […]

This is John Mackey’s Wall Street Journal column on health reform from last August. Mackey proposes health savings accounts as a key part of the solution and talks a bit about how they have made things more cost effective at Whole Foods. You can also read the very good interview that the WSJ did with […]

This is a very good opening statement on health care reform by congressman Mike Rogers from last summer. Many of his statements go to the core issues:

One of the main reasons that we are in this health care mess is that nobody has stated a clear case for health savings accounts. Health savings accounts just may be the “sleeping solution” to the health care problem. But people aren’t seeing this because most of the time when health savings accounts are discussed, […]

Nancy Pelosi’s health care bill earns recognition as the worst bill ever by the Wall Street Journal. Here’s the last paragraph: Mr. Obama rode into office on a wave of “change,” but we doubt most voters realized that the change Democrats had in mind was making health care even more expensive and rigid than the […]

From economist Greg Mankiw’s blog: Advocates of government-run health insurance like to point to Medicare’s low administrative costs (which, as I noted yesterday, is a controversial claim). But even if that factual claim were true, the argument would hardly be dispositive as to the greater efficiency of a publicly run system. As I put it […]