There are vast differences in the health of population groups in the United States. For example at the county level life expectancy for men ranges from a low of 65.9 years in Holmes County, Mississippi to a high of 81.1 years in Fairfax County, Virginia (a wealthy suburb of Washington, DC)—a difference of more than 15 years.
Republicans aren’t the only ones who want to repeal and replace ObamaCare. Count Bernie Sanders in as well.
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Imagine you are running a business and selling your product for a price that is three times higher than some of your rivals. Yet despite the price difference, you continue to sell all that you produce and make a fat profit in the process.
One of the most intriguing movies I’ve seen in a long time is The Big Short. It’s about the housing bubble and what we now call the Great Recession, based on Michael Lewis’s bestselling book “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine.”
Congress did a big favor last week for about one third of seniors on Medicare, roughly two-thirds of low-income families on Medicaid, people who are getting insurance in the (Obamacare) exchanges and everyone else with private insurance – whether obtained at work or on their own.
The reason why the health care systems of developed countries are so dysfunctional is that most of the time patients are not spending their own money; they are spending someone else’s money.
When Barack Obama was campaigning for the presidency in 2008 and when he was selling ObamaCare to the public in 2010, he made insurance companies the villains.
Every year about 5 percent of Medicare enrollees die. And before they die, Medicare spends a great deal of money on them.
It’s been more than 20 years since Hillary Clinton undertook a failing effort to reform the entire health care system.