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• The Singapore Alternative (health saving accounts instead of insurance)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  I pointed out on my show last week that health “reform” that gives people more health insurance will only raise health care costs. Insurance itself is the problem. When people dont spend their own money, they dont care what health care costs. One solution is health saving accounts, or HSAs, in which people spend ...
  6 days ago

• Fisking Peter Orszag On Health Care

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  It’s amazing the type of BS that this administration has tried peddling. This morning, it’s OMB Director Peter Orszag’s turn to get fisked. Here’s the fantasy that he’s peddling: The Journal makes three fundamental claims. The first is that health reform represents a huge risk to the federal budget, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Health Care Update

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  Last night, the Democrats ‘caved’ on expanding Medicare to appease Sen. Lieberman. Sen. Reid tried projecting a positive tone: “Democrats aren’t going to let the American people down,” Majority Leader Harry Reid said after a closed-door meeting called to discuss last-minute trade-offs in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Proposed one-year moratorium on new Colorado insurance mandates

  
  Independence Institute: Patient Power — Authority: 472
  Remember, mandated benefits in insurance plans are hidden taxes. They force you to pay for benefits that you may not want or need, and effectively force you to subsidize other people’s insurance. From the Denver Business Journal : Colorado businesses could get a one-year reprieve from new health-insurance ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why do condemn insurance companies

  
  Independence Institute: Patient Power — Authority: 472
  Is the for-profit insurance industry a “predator” that “prevent[s] us from having a decent health care system”?  Letter writer Bruce Robinson says so ( Daily Camera , December 1 ). He’s partially right. The real predators are politicians who inhibit needed health policy reform.  But insurers are guilty ...
  3 weeks ago

• Are HSAs the solution to health care reform?

  
  Healthcare Economist — Authority: 427
  Many economists feel that Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) are the direction in which health reform needs to head. HSAs combine high-deductible health plans with tax-deferred savings account. The theory behind HSAs is for the patient to pay for ‘basic’ health care to reduce the problem of moral hazard while ...
  3 weeks ago

• Michael Moore’s Sicko Misses the Solution: Health Savings Accounts

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 158
  Michael Moore’s new movie SICKO is a humorous and at times emotionally moving look at the state of U.S. healthcare, but it promotes a solution (government healthcare) that would only make matters worse. Instead of more bureaucracy and government control, we should be encouraging competition among healthcare ...
  3 weeks ago

• One more victim of Medicaid and employer-based insurance

  
  Independence Institute: Patient Power — Authority: 472
  John R. Graham of the Pacific Research Institute offers a great critique of Nicholas D. Kristof’s recent New York Times column .  Kristof relates a distressing story about a John Brodniak, who lost his job due to illness, exhausted his COBRA benefits, and ended up on Medicaid .   Yet, Kristof reaches an ...
  3 weeks ago

• Michael Moore’s Sicko Should Have Considered Health Savings Accounts

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 158
  Michael Moore’s new movie SICKO is a humorous and at times emotionally moving look at the state of U.S. healthcare, but it promotes a solution (government healthcare) that would only make matters worse. Instead of more bureaucracy and government control, we should be encouraging competition among healthcare ...
  4 weeks ago

• Harvard Medical School Dean: Health “reform” a failure

  
  Independence Institute: Patient Power — Authority: 472
  Some choice words from Jeffrey S. Flier, Dean of Harvard’s Medical School.  Some excerpts from his Wall Street Journal article: Our health-care system suffers from problems of cost, access and quality, and needs major reform. Tax policy drives employment-based insurance; this begets overinsurance and drives costs ...
  4 weeks ago

• Democrats seek to ban affordable insurance

  
  Independence Institute: Patient Power — Authority: 472
  HSA-qualified insurance: affordable premiums, patients spend prudently & take responsibility for their own health, and can save for future expenses. But politicians like Harry Reid want to make HSA-qualified insurance plans illegal. Read about it in the Wall Street Journal : The End of HSAs: Harry Reid wants to ...
  5 weeks ago

• The End of HSAs: Harry Reid wants to kill consumer-driven health care

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  [T]oday lets focus on the damage the [Senate health care] bill would do to consumer-driven health plans—the kind that give individuals more control over their health dollars and insurance choices. The 2,074-page bill crushes them with malice-aforethought. ... Start with its attack on flexible spending accounts that ...
  5 weeks ago

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