retired doc's thoughts

Michale Cannon of Cato seems to argue that.See here . Michigan is the latest state to say no thanks to the insurance exchange deal.Cannon ...

Some states are still refusing to set up the insurance exchanges contained in ACA.Subsidies are an important part of the exchanges.The IRS c...

 The health care economist John Goodman explains  one more  incentive for the private practice doctor to become an employee of a hospital or...

Fortunately, that is exactly what is on the way  thanks to ACA also known as Bronco care-formerly Obamacare. Efficiency and innovation will ...

Opponents of ACA had hoped that SCOTUS would find the act unconstitutional and failing that that the 2012 election would give republicans th...

  In the Animal kingdom,the rule is eat or be eaten;in the human kingdom,define or be defined. Thomas Szasz A recurrent meme in the disc...

A recent blog posting by Dr Robert Centor, see here , introduced me to the term "naturalistic decision making" which seems to be o...

Bastiat's "seen and the unseen" and Thomas Sowell's "and then what" express the same basic notion. That notion i...

Dr. Roy Poses has tirelessly written about the loss of professionalism in the medical profession. Here is the link for a recent commentary ...

See here for comments from economist Garrett Jones. If Obamacare increases the cost of hiring full time employees versus part time worke...

Thomas Sowell said the following as a good summary of the second half of his book Knowledge and Decisions: Even within democratic nations,...

The headline is correct .See here for background on this agency ruling that makes the headline true. See here for my earlier posting of ...

Promoted as a means of not only improving health care quality but saving money ( the often quoted $ 77.8  Billion that computers would save ...

 In regard to consumer goods markets most economists accept the superiority of the market versus central planning.Almost all believe the inv...

The following quote explains the title.See here for further details All people have the moral obligation to care for those who are les...

Counting deaths is much easier than assessing quality of life. Drs Pamela Hartzband and Jerome Groopman discuss the vagaries and uncertai...

Not too long ago the United States was one of the most economically free countries..Not so now, as measured by the Frazier Institute in Cana...

The clumsy, global health care spending caps enacted in Massachusetts is a harbinger of what the medical planning elites are pushing for the...

Goodhart's law expresses one of those insights to human behavior that we see play out again and again and increasing so in medical care ...

Dr. Thomas Szasz died 9/08/2012 at age 92. I have read and admired his work for the past 30 years.A real champion of liberty is lost. (Par...