News
Politico | Holding noses, insurers start hawking Obamacare
So health insurers are planning campaigns for the summer and fall to persuade a skeptical public to sign up and get covered by the health reform law.
Econ Comments & Analysis
CATO | How Government Killed the Medical Profession
I am a general surgeon with more than three decades in private clinical practice. And I am fed up. Since the late 1970s, I have witnessed remarkable technological revolutions in medicine, from CT scans to robot-assisted surgery. But I have also watched as medicine slowly evolved into the domain of technicians, bookkeepers, and clerks.
CATO | The Depressing Future of American Health Care
In 1997, Jacques Chaouilli, MD, a family physician in Montreal, Quebec, decided he could no longer tolerate seeing his patients suffer—sometimes die—lingering on waiting lists for treatment and/or specialty care. He started a private emergency housecall service that got shut down by the government because of its prohibition of private health care.
Blogs
Heritage Foundation | Obama: There Will Be “Bumps” and “Glitches” in Obamacare
In light of negative comments made by Congressional Democrats, President Obama discussed the implementation of Obamacare at a press conference this week, explaining that “even if we do everything perfectly, there’ll still be, you know, glitches and bumps, and there’ll be stories that can be written that says, oh, look, this thing’s, you know, not working the way it’s supposed to, and this happened and that happened.” But Obamacare has been experiencing more than a few “bumps” and “glitches.”
