Whining Instead of Sex and the Better Use of Health Insurance: A Testimony
I know how detestable it is for older men to speak about their health. First, the odds that they are going to come out alive are not good. Second, it’s true that many old geezers replace sexual...
View ArticleA Real Town Meeting in the People’s Green Republic of Santa Cruz
Tuesday night, I took in, in person, two and a half hours of town hall meeting with the same congressman, Sam Farr, in my own town of Santa Cruz, this time. Now, it’s important to understand that Santa...
View ArticleObamaCare and the Long Game
The Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday has garnered a number of ideas for me. I’ll admit that I was a little bit shocked when I heard that ObamaCare had been upheld. The lawyers who argued against...
View ArticleAround the Web: ObamaCare Edition (Part 2)
There is a lot of great stuff out there on the recent ruling. Here are a few I found interesting: The ObamaCare Ruling: A Libertarian Call to Rise by philosopher Kevin Vallier. Constitutional Disaster?...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform: Paradise Lost
I have been struggling for three days to swim back to the surface and breathe again. Since the monstrous health care bill reform passed on Sunday, furor and something approaching despair have made me...
View ArticleA Free Market in Medical Services
There are two directions for the reform of the U.S. medical services systems. One is towards welfare statism, the control of the medical system by the federal government, and the other is towards...
View ArticleHealth Insurance is Illegal
Health insurance is a crime. No, I’m not using a metaphor. I’m not saying it’s a mess, though it certainly is that. I’m saying it’s illegal to offer real health insurance in America. To see why …...
View ArticleA Note on Trump, Immigration, and Healthcare Reform
Hopefully, the US election will start getting out of the he-said-she-said of assassination attempts and badmouthing parents of military personnel and start being about actual policy issues....
View ArticleSome ideas to guide your thoughts on health care
This post is meant to help my non-economist friends think more clearly about how we pay for health care. I’ll talk about markets, but the truth is that the American system is built of deeply...
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