Articles Posted in the " HCR " Category

  • Economics Dooms Health Care Reform to failure.

    Economics Dooms Health Care Reform to failure.

    In the last post I wrote about the perversions of incentives that cause the problems in the health care system.  Let me point out that it’s not that we are behaving irrationally.  We are behaving completely rationally–given the situation we...


  • Perverse Incentives: Patients are our own worst Enemy with Health Costs

    Perverse Incentives: Patients are our own worst Enemy with Health Costs

    Okay, here’s another problem, since spend way too much time talking about the mandate… let’s talk basic economics. The whole initiative is predicated on a few arguments: Costs (prices) are too high. Insurance companies are “making too much money” Millions...


  • Welcome to the “New Grand Experiment”

    Welcome to the “New Grand Experiment”

    Let the experiment begin. I am not alone in my expectation that the Health Care (insurance) reform will not improve Health Care (it won’t make bad doctors good ones, for instance) and it won’t improve access since lower prices have...