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by JL Wall Before being informed that Mackey identifies as a Libertarian and (apparently) has not made any donations to Republican candidates and rather snittily walking it back just a little bit, Ben Wyskida at the HuffPo proclaims: The bottom line for me, reading Mackey’s op-ed, is that by shopping at Whole Foods I’m supporting [...]
Filed under: food, health care, politics
by JL Wall So they’re not quite as ridiculous as the town-hall crashers and Sarah Palin, but what we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is a failure of logic: “I’m boycotting [Whole Foods] because all Americans need health care,” said Lent, 33, who used to visit his local Whole Foods “several times a week.” “While [...]
Filed under: health care, politics
The other day a commenter recommended David Goldhill’s article on health care reform from the forthcoming Atlantic, and let me now do the same. It’s a long piece, and not easily excerpted, but absolutely worth reading carefully and in its entirety. Here’s a quick summary of what I take to be its most important points: [...]
Filed under: economics, government/law, health care
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey’s health care plan sounds great to me.
Filed under: health care, politics
Apparently they can: Consumer-driven health (CDH) products [i.e., high-deductible health plans relying on HSAs or Health Reimbursement Arrangements to reimburse for qualified expenses] have been marketed in various forms since the early 2000s. While emerging data is [sic] not entirely conclusive, general directional conclusions can be drawn from the studies published to date. […] With [...]
Filed under: economics, health care
I’ve got some further thoughts up at TAS.
Filed under: conservatism, health care, politics
Via Andrew, here is Joe Klein: "Something called health-reform legislation will pass," a prominent Democrat told me. "The political consequences of not passing anything would be too great." A bare-bones bill that reforms the health-insurance industry — insurers would have to accept all comers, including those with pre-existing conditions, at the same rates — is [...]
Filed under: health care, politics
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has published some guidelines (pdf) for health care reform that it seems to me should be accepted as a basic framework by all people of good will. They argue that health care reform should: ⇒ Include health care coverage for all people from conception until natural death; ⇒ [...]
Filed under: abortion, health care, politics, religion
So everyone is blogging about this chart, which was pulled together by AEI’s Andrew Biggs: The potential significance of these data for any number of common understandings of the factors behind rising medical costs is immediate, but – and speaking as a statistical ignoramus, so pillar of salt and all that – the way that [...]
Filed under: economics, health care
Via Radley Balko, the Independence Institute has a great little video on the problems with health insurance mandates: I’ll be the first to acknowledge that in a politically uncorrupted world, none of this would be an issue: health insurance is a public good, and as such it makes a good deal of sense to require [...]
Filed under: government/law, health care