World Health Over Time

Through Gapminder one can see an amazing view of the improvements in the health of countries over time in association with the wealth of those companies.  On this site you’ll see an incredible view of progress and some failures over the past two centuries, one standout being China.

The size of each dot represents the population [...]

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On Unconditional Tolerance

If your poor enough you will get sick.  If you’re sick long enough, you will be poor.  Economics and healthcare are pretty much two sides to the same coin.  After all the nonsense spoken about on the healthcare front, some of which is discussed here, I took a month off to gather some thoughts around [...]

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Ben Nelson Gets His Price

From the perspective of a representative “playing their position” and looking out for their own constituents, Ben Nelson has done a wonderful job.  As for the rest of the US, we’re asked to pick up the entire Medicaid bill for an entire state, for eternity.  How wonderful is that?

What this means is that Nebraska [...]

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Free Market Medicine – You’ll Like What You See.

Imagine that you do the same job year over year, and in each year you get paid less.  This is the condition in which most physicians find themselves.  It may be difficult for some to have sympathy  for physicians because many believe that they make lots of money, though some do.  Still, physicians spent most of their 20′s and some [...]

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Health Care Reform From A Patient Level Perspective

In Ohio there are many small roads that go under train trestles. At the time train tracks were being laid, it was cheaper to simply dig down and have the road go under the train tracks, rather than building bridges over them.  The challenge is, many of these roads were built when cars were much [...]

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