Comments on: WHICH WAY WILL OBAMACARE BEND THE MEDICAL COST CURVE?

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 16 May 2010 09:15:17 +0000

There seems to be this illusion that markets can solve our health care cost problem. You seem to be a smart guy, Steve, but talk about “having faith.” In the history of health care, there has NEVER been a successful market-based system. Certainly not ours.

Give me Canada, the UK, France any day of the week even over Obamacare. This is not Obamacare is too radical, but because it is not radical ENOUGH. The Democrats had to make too many compromises just to get this bill passed. Those of us who are real progressives know, not by faith but by the experience of other nations, that single payer is the only proven way to solve this problem.

By: What Will Health Reform Do for (or to) Americ's Hospitals? | Stephen S. S. Hyde On Health Care Reform Topics

Thu, 06 May 2010 15:57:47 +0000

[...] patient cost-sharing limits, uneconomic medical-loss-ratio mandates, unrealistic premium controls, continued medical inflation, and the probability of serious adverse selection—all of which combine to violate every one of my [...]

By: Gary Mohr MD

Gary Mohr MD — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:45:52 +0000

I am a board certified family physician who has been in private practice for 28 years. These have to be the darkest days of my career, and it’s only the beginning. Fortunately I am near enough to the end of my career that I can quit almost any time, but I fear for my daughter who is in premed now. And I dread for myself and my family when we need medical attention in the future. Cookbook medicine provided by midlevels under government fiat is not appealing to anyone who is ill. Thanks for your thoughtful and factual analysis; it’s too bad no one in Congress listened to you.