by Rick Ray | Jul 16, 2009 | Learn
When should a health care system that is trying to maximize the health of an entire population deny an individual a specific treatment? What is the value of extending a life for a day, or a year? In a long and excellent article for the New York Times, Peter Singer, a...
by Rick Ray | Jul 13, 2009 | Learn
This came in recently from Jonathan Ater, who served as vice-chair of the Oregon Health Fund Board: The following op-ed from the New York Times makes the same point that the Oregon Health Fund Board made: the problem with health care is not simply a financial problem,...
by Liz Baxter | Jul 6, 2009 | We Can Do Better - News
In the last 12 months we’ve seen a dramatic shift in our dialog about health care. Though we are only just beginning the process of implementing reform efforts, there are many hopeful signs. The public now realizes that we can’t talk about health reform...
by Rick Ray | Jun 21, 2009 | Learn
Today’s New York Times reports on a poll it conducted with CBS News. The poll found that most Americans would be willing to pay higher taxes so everyone could have health insurance and that they said the government could do a better job of holding down...
by Rick Ray | Jun 15, 2009 | Learn
Sounding a lot like John Kizthaber, George Mason University economics professor Tyler Cowen wrote the following for the New York Times (June 13th, 2009): Something’s Got to Give in Medicare Spending MEDICARE expenditures threaten to crush the federal budget, yet the...
by Rick Ray | Jun 14, 2009 | Learn
This article, from today’s New York Times, needs no introduction. Here’s an excerpt: Roughly $2.5 trillion is at stake, the amount the nation spends each year on health care, nearly a fifth of the American economy. How that money is divided up — or...
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