Hospitals and doctors make their living off sick people—which is a problem in and of itself. Insurers ought to make their living off keeping them healthy. But a funny thing happened on the way to the Forum.
Author Archives: Matt Holt
Breaking a Caterpillar Upon A Wheel?
March 25, 2006 – 11:20 am
So Ben Domenech’s tenure as the token conservative blogger at the Washington Post is over. The real journalists are all in a huff about plagiarism. And the more agressive of my fellow travelers on the left are enjoying the moment. But I have to ask, is what he did wrong that big a deal?
Politics, Religion, The New Republic and Health Care
March 22, 2006 – 3:07 pm
Last week leading “liberal” magazine The New Republic (TNR) came out with a battle cry to restore health care to the center of American liberalism. But there’s one thing wrong with TNR’s clarion call: It’s too soon.
Rationing’s opponents: Happy in their fantasy world
March 14, 2006 – 1:29 pm
Despite all his wealth and education apparently Kling cannot tell the difference between socialized medicine (where all the providers work for the government) and socialized insurance, where all the people are in one or multiple insurance pools and the government sets prices for private contractors. And if we ignore the fact that there’s basically no evidence of the rationing he fears in France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Holland, etc, etc, etc, I’m quite happy to concede the point.
Calvinists in the Medicine Cabinet
March 2, 2006 – 10:18 pm
The notion of intolerance of other people’s behavior has played a strong part in the U.S. due to its Calvinistic heritage. That intolerance comes out in much of the current conservative domination of our politics, but none so much as in what I call the “war on (some) drugs”.
