healthcare

Imagine a world where your local membership shopping club or health/fitness club could sell health insurance to members

Applying free market principles to America’s health care system would be the best way to improve the system

Fear of litigation delayed delivery of millions of N95 masks for healthcare workers. Should the law be slowing our emergency response?

With John Nothdurft MIA, Heartland’s Justin Haskins joins Donny Kendal to present episode #98 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Hudson Institute, the Cato Institute, and the Pacific Research Institute.

Trump needs to see through the subterfuge, and drain the third-party (“insurance”) swamp before it drains the life out of American medicine—into activities that patients would probably find to be of zero value.

John Nothdurft is back in episode #67 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Mercatus Center, the Heartland Institute, the Fordham Institute and Reason.

Mr. Trump has been castigated for saying that if the government goes bankrupt, he’d get creditors to accept less. That is standard operating procedure for businesses. Creditors make deals because something is better than nothing, and if a company is utterly destroyed, nothing is what they will get. They may complain, but unless they were actually defrauded, they voluntarily assumed a risk of loss, hoping to make a profit.

Lost in the noise of political posturing over health care, there’s one widely accepted principle: the importance of the doctor-patient relationship in medical decision-making. Yet we’ve all heard stories where insurance companies won’t fully cover a drug that both the doctor and patient believe is the right medical choice. Why not? It’s pretty simple: the insurance companies don’t want to pay.