Endowment Guide

There will be mornings when you are certain that someone has put super clue in your bed. You will try to convince yourself that it really does not matter whether you picture yourself in private health care.

On the other hand, I learn how to supervise the running things, get plan work, and do the job... to the great majority of my fellow men.

Following up on an earlier story, it appears Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla) is set to call the Senate Ethics Committee's bluff, and allow the full Senate to decide his fate. First for a little background, two weeks ago the Senate Ethics Committee threatened Coburn with censure if he did not cease delivering babies for free: Coburn has come under new pressure from the Ethics panel for delivering babies at the Muskogee Regional Medical Center, which changed from a public to a private institution ..keep reading.

Don't wait too long, this might be over before you know it.

There trade-offs everywhere, we all know, including for health care.  How much do you spend to provide how much treatment to which payments?  These decisions often are not easy.  Nevertheless at least in a decentralized, private system much people are making those decisions.  Nationalizing systems centralize the decisions over life and death, and hand them to politicians and bureaucrats. The National Health System in Great Britain is refreshingly honest.  If we don't think it's worth the money ..read all.

When the going gets very rough or too easy, those who are pursuing the greater good may feel a stronger compulsion to keep on pushing.

Shannon Brownlee thinks that the recently passed Medicare bill should have been vetoed, since some Medicare Advantage plans are doing a good job: Taking money away from Medicare Advantage is the wrong thing to do, but not because it reduces "choice" for Medicare recipients. Medicare Advantage, which pays a premium to health maintenance organizations, preferred provider organizations, and so-called private fee-for-service plans, was originally enacted 25 years ago to encourage the growth of ..read all.

A lot of people like this just as I do.