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America’s Broken Health Care: Diagnosis and Prescription

WEBIn the U.S., we spend on average $12,914 per person per year on health care, whereas that figure in the other comparable countries is $6,125. That comes to $6,800 more per person—and if you multiply that by 334 …

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A Short History of American Medical Insurance

WEBIn 1930 we spent 3.5 percent of American GDP on health care; in 1950, 4.5 percent; in 1970, 7.3 percent; in 1990, 12.2 percent. Today we spend 15 …

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Health Care and a Free Society

WEBHealth policy experts have considered a variety of reform proposals including the Canadian-style universal, single-payer program. We have …

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America’s Broken Health Care: Diagnosis and Prescription

WEBhealth care. In the U.S., we spend on average $12,914 per person per year on health care, whereas that figure in the other comparable countries is $6,125. That comes to $6,800 …

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Health Care Archives

WEBEconomics is about people making choices and institutions enabling them to thrive. Public health is about the same thing. Driving a wedge between the two, as happened in 2020, …

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A Prescription for American Health Care

WEBIn Dallas, concierge doctors charge only $40 per employee per month. In return, the patient receives access to the doctor by phone and e-mail, and the doctor keeps electronic medical records, competes for business …

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Health Care in a Free Society

WEBThis is a simple and obvious way to reduce costs. Four, we need to establish transparency in terms of costs and quality of health care. In Milwaukee, an MRI can cost between $400 and $4,000, and a bypass …

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Cancer Scares And Our Inverted Health Priorities

WEBAn ad for “Big Green” declared that “scientists are unable to find uncontaminated fish in California waters. Cancer in children is up by 20 percent since 1950.”. And, we were told, “20,000 Americans will develop …

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A PUBLICATION OF HILLSDALE COLLEGE Imprimis

WEBretirement health care. As with the auto companies, almost none of that is funded either. Nor are most state and local post-retirement health benefit plans. Some California …

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Health Care and a Free Society

WEBsocialized health care systems is a shortage of health care services." open competition in health care services. It is not possible to have both simultaneously. As proposed, …

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A Sensible and Compassionate Anti-COVID Strategy

WEBAs infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 …

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Lessons From the Great Covid Cover-Up

WEBTo think that we can prevent future pandemics, even as we continue to seek, catalog, and manipulate dangerous viruses, is the height of hubris. Over the last few years, public …

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Chemicals, Cancerphobia and Communication

WEBCancer is an unquestionably serious public health problem in the United States today. This year an estimated 395,000 Americans will die from some form of cancer, making it the …

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WEBpublic health messaging failed to get this fact out to the public. It still seems to be a common per-ception that COVID is equally dan-gerous to everybody, but this couldn’t be …

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Science, Politics, and COVID: Will Truth Prevail

WEBAs a health policy scholar for over 15 years and as a professor at elite universities for 30 years, I am shocked and dismayed that so many faculty members at these universities …

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Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Economic Productivity

WEBThe health care provider doesn’t look at your tax return and adjust the bill accordingly. So we would never call paying full price for health care an income tax of any kind. Or …

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A PUBLICATION OF HILLSDALE COLLEGE Imprimis

WEB4. HILLSDALE COLLEGE: PURSUING TRUTH • DEFENDING LIBERTY SINCE 1844 FEBRUARY 2010 • VOLUME 39, NUMBER 2 < hillsdale.edu. Four, we need to establish …

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WEBAmericans spent $2.8 billion on health care—$23 per person and 3.5 percent of the Gross Domestic Product. In 2015 we spent about $3 trillion—$9,536 per person and 15 percent …

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Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence

WEBAnd in September of last year, a large federal survey found a rise in serious mental illness in the United States as well, especially among young adults, the heaviest users of …

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Thoughts on the Current Crisis

WEBIn 2017 alone, the CDC spent over $1.1 billion on chronic disease prevention and health promotion, $215 million on environmental health, and $285 million on injury …

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Our Unconstitutional Congress

WEBMost notable and tragic was the perversion of the “general welfare” clause. Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution says: “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect …

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The Economic Disaster of the Pandemic Response

WEBAs a result, health care sector employment fell 1.6 million in early 2020. Even stranger is the fact that total health care spending fell off a cliff. From March to May 2020, health …

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