Medicare Administrative Costs and Fraud
An Philip Klein American Spectator article is relevant to thinking about health care policy. Coburn based his figures on an estimate from health care fraud expert Malcolm Sparrow of Harvard University,...
View ArticleMedicare Fraud
I found a Washington Examiner article that says the government’s estimate of medicare fraud is an astounding 12% of payouts. If true, that pretty much kills the administrative costs argument (unless...
View ArticleObama’s Double Backwards Flip on Health Care
Romesh Ponnuru sums it up succinctly: In the primaries, Obama distinguished himself from Clinton on health care by opposing an individual mandate. In the general election, he distinguished himself from...
View ArticleMeasuring the Cost of Health Care— The Effect of Price Controls
I am puzzled by how we should think about measuring the value of output in health care, or any market, when the prices are not at the competitive level. What if the government has a maximum price of...
View ArticleCorporations and Religious Freedom
Re: “Skepticism About the Third Circuit’s Rejection of Organizational Free Exercise Claims,” Will Baude, Volokh Conspiracy. Am I correct in thinking that a for-profit sole proprietorship has religious...
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