NBfPB's Healthcare Clearinghouse

Healthcare is the critical domestic policy issue of our time. It is critical as a practical matter because those of us who will be entering our high-healthcare-consuming years in a decade or so have to live with the consequences of the policy choices we make today. Healthcare is also critical as an idealogical matter. Healthcare is roughly 16% of GDP and rising, and the near uniform view of one of our two political parties is that healthcare should be competely provisioned by the government. Think of it. What likely will be 20% of our economy could be transformed into a collectivized, centrally planned system. Will we allow one-fifth of our economy, historically the wonder of the world, to operate along socialist, statist principles? The case for free markets and more capitalism in our approach to healthcare has never been more urgent in my view. I have tried, in my own small way, to make that case on this blog. The effort has been scattershot though, so going forward I am going to aggregate all manner of commentary into heathcare clearinghouse posts, starting with my own commentary on the subject. So here goes.

Why Healthcare is Not a Right

A Rough Vision of What Health Insurance Should Look Like

Is Tennis Elbow a More Critical Need Than Diabetes or Healthy Babies?

Fisking a Collectivist Approach to Healthcare.

First Hand Account of the Worst Healthcare State

An Example of Why We Can't Impede Human Ingenuity's Contribution to Healthcare

Some Policy Manifestos Worth Your Time - One and Two and Three (The Big One!)

A Novel Idea - Don't Screw "The Healthy"

What Socialized Medicine Looks Like

Josef Stalin for Surgeon General!

Insurance Companies WANT to Insure

Addressing Some Misguided Punditry . And More.