U.S. Health Care, Now and in the Future
A friend of mine had heart bypass surgery three weeks ago. He’s a healthy, fit, and active 86-year old, but started feeling bad one day and ended up in the hospital. The next day he had an MRI, which...
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Competition Based on Quality of Healthcare: Why Does Quality Rise in Free...
Lack of quality competition is in part the result of certain characteristics of healthcare quality. What we call core quality is not a variable at all. As I discuss in my recent book Priceless: Curing...
View ArticleHow the VA Wastes Medical Care for Veterans
In 2014, one of the biggest scandals in the history of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs erupted into the open when, thanks to a whistleblower at the Phoenix branch of the VA, the public learned...
View ArticleCoronavirus Response from CDC Is an Omen for Single-Payer Healthcare...
The spread of the coronavirus epidemic to the United States is giving all Americans a first-hand look at what life would be like under a single-payer healthcare system, such as the Medicare-for-All...
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Coronavirus and National Healthcare Rationing
“Flattening the curve.” Those three words describe the motivation that many governments in Europe and several state governments within the United States have used to justify shutting down nearly all...
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