By Tom, on March 20th, 2010%
It was C.S. Lewis who, in his unforgettable Screwtape Letters, wrote: “The greatest evil is not done now in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is not even done in concentration camps and labor camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried . . . → Read More: A Preamble a Health Reform Vote
By Tom, on March 14th, 2010%
A good predictor of the future events will either tell you that something is likely to happen, or when something is likely to happen, but never both. We’ve heard a lot of nonsense in regard to non-sustainability, that is that some sort of un-named catastrophe will result if we don’t do something.
In the late 1970′s economists . . . → Read More: Unsustainable Health Care?
By Tom, on March 8th, 2010%
What insurance companies have that the government does not is information. In today’s WSJ http://bit.ly/d2FHTo mentions that HHS Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius wants the industry to provide estimates of cost and utilization increases. This is a question the government can not answer on their own, yet is confident that they know how to manage healthcare . . . → Read More: Where To Go For Healthcare Information? Insurance Companies.
By Tom, on March 7th, 2010%
What if health care “reform” makes things worse? Seems like a straight forward and honestly humble enough question; don’t you think it needs to be asked?
The problem in the financial crisis is that not enough peopled asked themselves (with the possible exception of Morgan Stanley), what if their assumptions are wrong? What if we’re missing . . . → Read More: The Missing Question in Health Care