health care

Want to escape the bureaucracy and rising costs of health insurance premiums? The Direct Primary Care model may be the solution the country has been waiting for. 

Lebanon is a land of contrasts. Beirut struggles to keep the lights on 24 hours a day, get the garbage collected, and what passes for a highway system would give the most jaded New York cabbie a heart attack. But there is one thing the Lebanese haven’t screwed up that we in the U.S. have turned into a royal mess. And that is the ability to deliver world class healthcare at an affordable price.

If you’re wondering what in Hell is actually going on with U.S. health-care policy, the short version is this: Policymakers in both parties are trying to replicate Swiss policies in a country that isn’t Swiss.

Passions are high in the national health care debate. Some supporters of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have taken to asserting that hundreds of thousands of “people will die” if it is repealed or significantly altered. These claims do not withstand scrutiny, and those who wish their policy arguments to be taken seriously would be well advised to avoid them.

To say nothing of how fundamentally mandatory vaccinations are at odds with the concept of self ownership, in free markets, companies are held responsible for their actions. But making consumption of vaccines mandatory and shifting the liability away from companies eliminates the basic control mechanisms of the rule of law and consumer choice.

(COMMONDREAMS) — Just following the release of the Senate’s “morally bankrupt” healthcare bill—which would impose

In the next week or so, the U.S. Senate may vote on a health care bill that would repeal and replace some parts of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. This 1993 lecture by FEE president Lawrence Reed is full of important fundamentals about both health care and government.

The United States has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world, NPR reports. Some of these deaths are due to poor maternal health, but a big part of the problem is high rates of intervention. For starters, let’s look at how a typical American woman gives birth.

President Trump and congressional Republicans have a second chance to take a whack at the Obamacare piñata – and the beauty of it is that this time, Democrats may want to take a swing at it, too. “It” being the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). As soon as the actuary for Medicare/Medicaid Services issues a report – already overdue for 2017 – that the "targets" have been exceeded, the IPAB automatically rises to life – in order to dispense death.

The Republican health care bill passed by the House, which the president enthusiastically supported, would be a step toward the health care model that Australia uses. Unfortunately, health care down under is an expensive mess.