When it comes to our health care, we all want the same thing: the care we need, when we need it from people we choose at a price we can afford. Americans are confused about how to achieve this. Why must all Americans have the same healthcare structure?...
Deceptively labeled Medicare-for-All, Democrats’ plan for single payer healthcare, is nothing less than poison–hemlock for healthcare. It will “federalize” our system, what is called nationalization in socialist countries. Medicare-for-All would exacerbate...
To get what you want, you must first decide what that is. If you believe media reports on healthcare, the public wants to save money and to have health insurance. Money and insurance are not our primary healthcare desires. What we want is simple and universal:...
U.S. healthcare is failing: it doesn't deliver timely care and spends money we don't have and can't afford. Can healthcare be fixed? In 2018, the average American family spent $28,166 on healthcare costs. The same year, the U.S. poured $3.65 trillion...
There are a host of good reasons to “repeal” the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare). “Replace” is an entirely different matter. Start with its negative effects on individuals and on our country. Americans are experiencing skyrocketing health insurance costs—premiums,...
Everyone believes that the purpose of a healthcare system is to get the right care on time to the most people, and everyone is right. Where common wisdom goes astray is the presumption that coverage equals care. Most people think that having health insurance...
Most people believe the key to getting health care is having insurance. Not true: many people with insurance don't get care-some die in line waiting for care, especially with government-supplied health insurance. Most people believe the key to getting...
California may try to create a statewide single payer healthcare system. Bernie Sanders still wants single payer Medicare-for-All for Vermont despite its demise aborning in 2014. Texas wants a free market system. Washington desperately seeks a way out...
Created in 1965 as a medical safety net for "disabled, aged, and blind," Medicaid now provides no-charge medical insurance for 74 million Americans. Has Medicaid been successful in providing for their medical needs or not? Created in 1965 as a medical...
Predictions of cost savings through ObamaCare, like most liberal politics, were based on magical thinking. If they want something to be true with sufficiently intensity, liberals know it must be true. Small children are natural magical thinkers. Ask any...
After describing machine and complex adaptive systems, we define a thinking system with two unique, defining characteristics: having goal(s) separate from survival and the capability to innovate purposefully. Thinking systems always learn and are the...
Before the Revolutionary War, residents of the North American colonies were subjects of the British crown. They were entitled to as much or as little as the aristocracy allowed. Their living conditions and daily activities were dictated by the government....
At present, public awareness is focused exclusively on CoViD-19. There is a wealth of misinformation, even disinformation that must be corrected. This video ... At present, public awareness is focused exclusively on CoViD-19. There is a wealth of misinformation,...
Elected officials such as New York and Atlanta mayors as well as clinical physicians, viz., in Maryland and Colorado, are projecting there will be more patients who need life-saving CoViD-19 services than there are facilities--ICU beds and ventilators--available....
We can now design a CoViD-19 strategy based on fact, not flawed theory. Evidence drives a strategy of stopping lock-downs, allowing normal contacts including... We can now design a CoViD-19 strategy based on fact, not flawed theory. Evidence drives a...
Common wisdom teaches that those who have health insurance get the care they need when they need it, and that those who don't have coverage, don't get care. This false "wisdom" is used by progressives to push for government-controlled, single payer healthcare....
Federal healthcare regulations with their attendant bureaucracies are supposed to facilitate patients getting the medical care they need when they need it. Sadly, bureaucracy does the exact opposite: it reduces access to care and can lead to needless...
The title question might seem silly, even ludicrous. It is anything but. In the United States today, a truck driver is free to choose which gear to use going up a hill and at what speed to go down the hill. Accountants and lawyers are free to accept or...
The reason you got a prescription for the wrong medication is simple. Your doctor did not choose it, someone who never heard your name and doesn't know your medical history, that faceless person decided what medicines you take. These faceless, unseen...
There are so many compelling narratives about healthcare, people simply can't distinguish truth from falsehood. Without knowing the facts about healthcare, we cannot fix it. Following are five examples of commonly accepted wisdom that are bogus, myths,...
Aphorisms like "the pot calling the kettle black" persist because they keep being proven relevant. Such is the case with politicians' outrage over Mylan Pharmaceuticals' price gouging for its life-saving EpiPen: their price has risen from less than $100...
Our politicians do not learn from history, even our own. House Bill 100 ("New Mexico Health Care Access Wins Final Approval," Los Alamos Post, Feb 19) just passed is touted to "increase[s] access to high-quality health care."Sadly, this is not true. HB...
Do Americans still have the right to speak their minds freely as guaranteed by the First Amendment? Apparently not, as one 19-year-old can attest. Newly professional bike racer Quinn Simmons lost his job when he supported President Trump with one word....
With the summer drawing to a close, the big question for nearly 60 million U.S. school-age children is whether they can return to school, or must they remain at home, limited to remote learning? States and municipalities differ widely on whether and how...
There are too few therapists and no burn units; doctors can’t accept Medicaid patients and nurses are quitting, because too few “healthcare” dollars go to health...care Imagine a big truck full of bags of money. The bags start rolling down the ramp. The...
