Author: David Hogberg

Savings of ObamaCare’s ACOs Declined 28 Percent!

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One of the, ahem, “reforms” ObamaCare introduced to Medicare was Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).  ACOs were supposed to save money for taxpayers and improve the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries.  (To understand what an ACO is, go here.) In ...
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Are Amputees Medicare’s Next Victims?

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Let me start this blog post with a thank you to Brad Knollenberg and AccessRX America for doing an interview with me about my book, Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physician ...
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Rubio’s Health Care Plan: Economics vs. Politics

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It is often the case that good economics makes bad politics, and vice-versa.  That is evident in the part of Senator Marco Rubio’s health care plan that deals with the employer-based tax exclusion for health insurance. Rubio’s plan proposes a refundable tax ...
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That’s Okay. New Mexico’s ObamaCare Exchange Will Be Just Fine with Fewer Insurers

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In early June, Mother Jones writer Kevin Drum stated, “don’t pay too much attention to scare stories about gigantic increases in Obamacare premiums next year.”  One reason, he said was that a “few months from now, the real rate increases—the ...
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ObamaCare Is a Very Inefficient Way to Deliver Health Care

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In late July, the political left celebrated a new study from the Journal of the American Medical Association that purported to show that people are getting better care under ObamaCare.  Johnathan Cohn claimed that the study is “one more reason ...
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Book: Medicare Harms Patients And Impairs Doctors

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Some housekeeping chores I didn’t get to last week.  First, thanks to Richard Eisenberg, who did an interview with me about Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians, that appeared at both ...
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Why ‘Medicare-for-All’ Is A Terrible Idea

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Yesterday I had another article at The Federalist examining Robert Reich’s push for single-payer health care, a.k.a. “Medicare-for-All.”  This was one of the more enjoyable pieces I’ve written in a while, so here is an excerpt: And what is Reich’s ...
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Medicare’s Unhappy 50th Anniversary

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Today is the 50th Anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson signing Medicare into law.  The Daily Caller published my article today explaining why that is nothing to celebrate.  Here is an excerpt: Medicare has a dark underbelly that is seldom given ...
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The Silliest Argument in Favor of Medicare-For-All

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Easily the most absurd claim advanced by the Medicare-for-All (i.e. single-payer) crowd is that Medicare is more efficient than private sector health insurance because it has lower administrative costs. There are numerous problems with that argument, not the least of ...
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Medicare’s Victims: What Readers Are Saying

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My new book, Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians, received its first review on Amazon: I am a patient of Dr. Juliette Madrigal-Dersch, and I thoroughly enjoyed the section about her and her ...
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