Update/The Dollar, Oil and Health Care

Hello all. It’s been well over a month since I last blogged. A lot has happened that is preventing me from pontificating as much as I would like. First, I moved from Kansas City, Missouri to Cherry Hill, New Jersey, a suburb of Philadelphia. My doctorpricing.com partners (William Short , Craig [...]

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Consumerism Cheapening Health Care? Get Over It…

People like to scoff at the idea of blending health care with shopping.  Uttering the very words “consumer driven health care” sends shivers down the spines of “purists” – your local medical specialist, whose life-saving work necessitates the confidence and ego driving the indignancy of the thought.  Does consumerism cheapen health care?  Well, yes…if you [...]

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McCain has the Best Health Care Plan?

Shawn Tully, editor-at-large of Fortune Magazine, wrote a fantastic summary of each of the presidential hopefuls’ health care plans on CNN Money.  He reaches the same conclusions I have have as of late on this blog – we must get health care costs under control.
I haven’t spent a lot of time on the candidates’ plans [...]

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Health Care Costs Could End America

Robert Pear’s New York Times article about Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s health care plans has an alarming statistic.  Medicare and Medicaid, our two government-funded health programs, cost our country $627 billion last year – or 23% of all federal spending.  Many people like to criticize the Iraq War for its cost – proclaiming that [...]

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Who Chooses Your Surgeon, You or Someone You’ve Never Met?

Journalists Ezra Klein and Peter Suderman debate the government’s role in the future of U.S. Health Care (thank you Healthcare Economist).  Whose argument carries more weight?
Klein’s main argument is decidedly anti-libertarian, which makes perfect sense because I don’t think he is a Libertarian.  Klein’s conclusion is that it will take substantial government resources, research and [...]

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Health Care Coverage for 40 Million Uninsured Without Raising Taxes

A solution for America’s uninsured always seems financially unsustainable.  Sure, other countries have it, but they don’t have 300 million people, vast disparities in household incomes and general wealth, a third-world country next-door neighbor with a broken fence latch, and a military.
Well, thanks to the embarassing inefficiencies present in our current health care system, the [...]

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