ACO: AN ACRONYM FOR BIG BROTHER
Paul Hsieh’s latest column for the Christian Science Monitor provides a great metaphor for ObamaCare’s top-down, centrally-controlled health care model: Suppose President Obama declared he would tackle...
View ArticleHSIEH: DUDE, WHERE’S MY FREEDOM?
In his latest column for Pajamas Media, Paul Hsieh drives home the point that the battle over government-run health care is as much about individual liberty as it is about medicine: Benjamin Franklin...
View ArticleHSIEH ON ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATIONS
Paul Hsieh points out at Town Hall, that ObamaCare is essentially a Soviet-style central planning scheme based on the notion that a group of Beltway apparatchiks can outsmart the market: Accountable...
View ArticleHSIEH: COLLECTIVIZING U.S. HEALTH CARE
Health care in the U.S. has traditionally been delivered by a decentralized network of providers. Most physicians have practiced independently or in small groups, and most hospitals have been...
View ArticleHSIEH: HOW OBAMACARE PLAYS GAMES WITH YOUR LIFE
Over at Pajamas Media, Paul Hsieh discusses how ObamaCare’s “Accountable Care Organizations” incentivize doctors to make choices that aren’t in the patient’s best interest: Under the ACO system,...
View ArticleCAIN, CANCER AND OBAMACARE
In today’s American Spectator, I discuss Herman Cain’s claim during last week’s Republican debate that he’d be dead if ObamaCare had been in effect when his colon and liver cancer were diagnosed. Cain...
View ArticleACCOUNTABLE CASH ORGANIZATIONS
In an LTE to the Denver Post, Dr. Paul Hsieh succinctly sums up the problem with one of the most vaunted of ObamCare’s features—-the Accountable Care Organization (ACO): In theory, ‘accountable care...
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