Declining reimbursement rates, on top of losses in purchasing power, result in reduced access to care, as some physicians have limited the number of Medicare patients they accept or have stopped accepting new Medicare patients altogether.
Healthcare
Universal Health Care Freedom on the Fourth of July
It is precisely because our health care is so important to each of us that we need to be especially careful to preserve and protect the rights of physicians and other health care providers.
What Really Happened: Lockdown until Vaccination
The goal of all of it was to keep natural immunity from ruining the chance for the mRNA shots to save the day.
The Single Greatest Obstacle to Health Care Quality
When government asserts control over your health care, it creates opportunities for low‐quality providers to lobby for subsidies and regulations that protect them from competition from high‐quality producers.
Why Health Insurance in America Lacks Rationality and How To Fix It
How the government drove out the science of risk from the entire business of consumer pricing of health care insurance.
Covid-19 Lockdowns: Four Years Ago This Week, Freedom Was Torched
Seemingly out of nowhere, people who the public had largely ignored, the public health bureaucrats, all united to tell the executives in charge – mayors, governors, and the president – that the only way to deal with a respiratory virus was to scrap freedom and the Bill of Rights.
Canadians Should Embrace Private For Profit Health Care
Why should Canadians embrace private health care as a moral alternative to medicare, as citizens of most other countries do?
Make Health Savings Accounts Work for Everyone
Increase HSA contribution limits so nearly all workers could deposit 100 percent of what their employer pays toward health benefits tax‐free into an HSA.
Biden’s New Plan Threatens Health Coverage for More than Half a Million People
Biden’s proposal would eliminate consumer protections, throw sick patients out of their health insurance, and leave them to face sky-high medical bills without insurance for up to one year.
This Silence on The Fascist Response To Covid-19 Is Not Golden
The Covid response ruined everything the world identified with America: freedom, rights, decentralism, commerce, individual liberty, and bravery in the face of trial. Governments together with all the commanding heights betrayed all those values. We need to know why. We need to know how. We need to know who.
Abolishing the FDA
FDA Policies Keep People Sick and Create a False Sense of Security
Government Undermines Health Care Quality, While Choice Promotes It
There’s no Democratic or Republican way to promote quality. There is only what works, and that’s letting consumers reward quality by making their own health decisions.
A Pandemic of Lockdown Denialism
The denialists are those who actively promoted and enforced lockdowns, and now implausibly deny that anything happened at all.
Medicare Is Not Taxing or Coercing Merck, Just Reducing Its Government Subsidies
The fact that people would even think to equate Merck losing government business to coercion shows just how much government dominates health care in the United States.
What Accounts for America’s Life Expectancy Gap?
Adopting socialized medicine – “universal health care” – would not remedy the well-documented gap in U.S. life expectancy.
A Doctor Dissents from Statist Orthodoxy
Some doctors aren’t afraid to make the case for freedom, both in medical care and in all other aspects of our lives. One of them is Dr. Miguel Faria.
Three Years In, How Did the Lockdowns Go?
The lockdowns did not improve health outcomes. They did devastate economic outcomes.
Focused Protection: Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta, and Martin Kulldorff
If you express any misgivings about the covid policies, people are quick to retort: how do you propose we should have handled the pandemic instead? Three experts came up with an answer, which they put into writing and co-signed in the Massachusetts town of Great Barrington on October 4, 2020.
Fauci Fibbed on the Day Everything Changed
Fauci could have used his time in Congress to give a basic explanation. He did not. He chose to spread irrational fear instead.
Regulations Strangle Health‐Insurance Options in Florida
This isn’t market failure. It is the result of government regulation.
They Will Lock You Down Again
We cannot allow that to happen.
Insulin Markets Need Less Government
Thanks to government, insulin is hard to get.
Blame the Federal Diabetic Assault (FDA) for High Insulin Prices
The insulin pricing problem is a result of the government regulating business.
Free-Market Medicine
The health-care market has failed to produce high-quality, low-cost medicine for two reasons: consumers are insulated from the cost of medical care by third-party payers, and information on the performance of competing physicians is not available.
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