Greg Scandlen
Most of the health reform dreamers look to the UK as a model of what we should be doing. Great Britain is about a decade ahead of us in moving toward national health information technology, comparative effectiveness research, and pay-for-performance….
Atul Gawande is back with another op-ed, but this one is co-authored with Don Berwick, Elliott Fisher, and Mark McClellanin the New York Times. His co-authors, all physicians, have done a good job in balancing his views. This time, the…
Martin Feldstein, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ronald Reagan, wrote in the Wall Street Journal that, “ObamaCare is all about rationing.” He says, “The White House Council of Economic Advisers issued a report in June…
Even if you read the bill you won’t understand it. It is written exactly to hide what it is they are doing. There is one provision that gives the Secretary the power to reduce payment to any cancer treatment center…
Part of the reason regular citizens are so agitated about the health care debate is because they sense intuitively that they have been sold out by everybody in Washington. One might think that at least physicians would be concerned about…
As virtually everybody in America now knows, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin posted the following on her FaceBook page: The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have…
Steven Parente is an economist at the University of Minnesota and a principal of HSI Network, a health economics research firm. He wrote a short article for the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal in which he estimates the real cost of…
Congress is groping for ways to finance this thing and every day they come up with a swell new idea. One day it is a tax on soda pop, the next day it is botox, next a VAT tax on…
