What the Next President Should Do About Healthcare (Radio interview)
The sound clip below is from a radio interview on WNZF in Palm Coast, Florida on March 18 with station general manager David Ayers. Bill Tol, Director of Florida Hospital HospiceCare Foundation and I talked with David about healthcare. The interview was a prelude to a talk at the Community Open Forum educational series at Florida […]
Connecticut and Medicaid
One of the questions I am asked the most is about whether America should have a single payer for healthcare. The idea sounds compelling to many, but I argue in Health Attitude the economy of scale would turn into a diseconomy of scale. Bigger is not always better. We have 50 states and all are […]
Obamacare and Healthcare Technology Startups
As I wrote in “Political Debates: Little Substance About Healthcare“, I had hoped to hear a lot of substance about healthcare reform during the political debates this year. So far, there has little substance. I doubt if any of the candidates in either party know what is in the ten parts of Obamacare, the Patient […]
Political Debates: Little Substance About Healthcare
The debates go on and little of substance is discussed about healthcare. I doubt if any of the candidates in either party know what is in the ten parts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010. In Health Attitude, I wrote a non-partisan analysis. The ACA has some good things and some bad […]
High Cost of Drugs – Pills
Last week, I reported the cost of one once of eyedrops I needed would be $1,425. I compared the price to an outstanding cabernet such as Opus One 2012, which costs $289.99. The price comes out to $11.43 per ounce. The eye drops are 125 times more expensive than the $290 bottle of fine wine. […]
