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
By Tom Coss, on December 19th, 2009
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 will not . . . → Read More: Ben Nelson Gets His Price
By garrett, on December 13th, 2009
As legend has it, while being arrested for his believes (based upon evidence) that the Sun, rather than the Earth, was the center of the universe; Nicholas Copernicus said of his captors: “I cannot admire enough those who accepted the heliocentric (earth as the center of the universe) doctrine despite the evidence of their senses.”
The . . . → Read More: Commentariolus Medicus