Author: David Hogberg

Eating Snow’s Siblings

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My lovely wife fixed me a plate of Snow’s Siblings this morning: And they tasted even better than usual after watching this video: ...
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The Ripple Effect Of ObamaCare On Jobs

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With ObamaCare’s employer mandate less than three months from coming into effect, it’s a good time to review what impact ObamaCare is having on the job market. 1. Part-Time, Outsourcing, Lower Wages, etc. In August, the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta, ...
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300,000 More People Find Out That If You Like Your Plan You Really Can’t Keep It

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Last year, somewhere between 4 million and 6 million people with plans in the individual market lost those plans because they did not meet ObamaCare requirements. President Obama later issued an executive order letting insurers maintain those plans for another ...
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Common Core: Number Sense?

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By now, you’ve no doubt seen this photo: Common Core, it seems, takes the simple way of doing math and makes it convoluted. Well, Hemant Mehta, who was a math teacher for seven years, argues that too many people aren’t ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends: Skinny Network Edition

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About two weeks ago, NCPPR released my study on insurance quality in the ObamaCare exchanges versus the individual market.  One finding was that the quality of provider networks—the network of physicians, hospitals and other health care providers available through an insurance ...
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Can’t Bloomberg Businessweek Reporters Do A Google Search?

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At Bloomberg Businessweek, reporter John Tozzi recently linked to one of my blog posts in this sentence: “Americans sometimes accuse Britain’s single-payer system of rationing of health care.” More on that in a bit. Tozzi’s piece focuses on the drug Sovaldi and ...
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Zombie Apocalypse Or VA Cheating?

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So Congress, how is that $17 billion in new funds you gave the Veterans Administration working out?  From FoxNews: The family of a U.S. Marine is demanding answers after Department of Veterans Affairs records indicated that their son had canceled ...
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Health Care: Equity Vs. Efficiency

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In my blog post yesterday arguing that health care is a commodity, I noted that Rashi Fein, one of the architects of Medicare, argued that health care needed to emphasize equity over efficiency.  I claimed that “a system that emphasizes ...
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Health Care IS A Commodity

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Rashi Fein, one of the most important people in the development of Medicare and Medicaid, passed away two weeks ago Monday. Via his obituary, I discovered that he had written the following in the New England Journal of Medicine back ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends

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1. Did ObamaCare Increase The Number of Uninsured?  The American Enterprise Institute’s Joe Antos has a great piece on both the recent health insurance surveys from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the Census Bureau.  According to Antos the CDC ...
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