This is the first in what I hope will be a series of posts on how a free market might solve many of the problems we have with health care in America. I say “might,” because I am not actually a healthcare professional; I’m sure that, free from the constraints of government interference, hospital administrators, doctors, insurers, and anyone else involved in the delivery of care would come up with solutions beyond what I can dream of. Though I do not Read more

The Senate continues to look for creative ways to rob the American people in order to finance healthcare “reform.” Many big targets for taxes, like so-called “Cadillac insurance plans” (ie, plans with comprehensive coverage that cost a lot of money), have turned out to be politically contentious — unions, whom the Democrats love, don’t want the high-value plans taxed because that would affect many of their membership, for example.

So, Read more

Of an amendment to the House healthcare “reform” bill that would bar any insurance plan paid for with federal subsidies from covering abortion (a similar amendment is being considered by the Senate),

Representative Jan Schakowsky, Democrat of Illinois, said the restrictions were “the most crushing blow we have seen to reproductive rights since Roe v. Wade,” the 1973 Supreme Court decision that established a constitutional right Read more