Comments on: Make Americans care about costs http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/09/make-americans-care-about-costs.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Zagreus Ammonhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/09/make-americans-care-about-costs.html#comment-79836 Zagreus Ammon Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:52:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/09/make-americans-care-about-costs.html#comment-79836 My post at The Physician Executive pointed out that the references don't support Mr. Cannon's assertions.<br/><br/>I would like to check myself, so if anyone has the time to read some of the papers to which he links, please let me know if you agree or disagree that the data doesn't say what he says it does.<br/><br/>I would like to see a conservative thesis proposed that extends health coverage at low-cost to those who need it the most, but not universally or via single-payer.<br/><br/>I am afraid that Mr. Cannon has harmed that agenda via blatant manipulation, misrepresentation and a disregard for truth.<br/><br/>Or maybe, I'm wrong. My post at The Physician Executive pointed out that the references don’t support Mr. Cannon’s assertions.

I would like to check myself, so if anyone has the time to read some of the papers to which he links, please let me know if you agree or disagree that the data doesn’t say what he says it does.

I would like to see a conservative thesis proposed that extends health coverage at low-cost to those who need it the most, but not universally or via single-payer.

I am afraid that Mr. Cannon has harmed that agenda via blatant manipulation, misrepresentation and a disregard for truth.

Or maybe, I’m wrong.

]]> By: KipEsquirehttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/09/make-americans-care-about-costs.html#comment-79834 KipEsquire Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:26:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/09/make-americans-care-about-costs.html#comment-79834 <i>"Nonetheless, most reformers, including Cohn, focus obsessively on expanding coverage, despite the fact that many economists can find no evidence that it is a cost-effective way to improve health."</i><br/><br/>Rights exist independently of costs. If I have a purported "right to health care," then that is the end of the discussion. "Cost" is a strictly orthogonal non sequitur.<br/><br/>Or maybe, just maybe, there is in fact no such thing as a "right to health care"...<br/><br/>Either way, the buredn is on the health care socialists to resolve the paradox, not on those opposed to it. “Nonetheless, most reformers, including Cohn, focus obsessively on expanding coverage, despite the fact that many economists can find no evidence that it is a cost-effective way to improve health.”

Rights exist independently of costs. If I have a purported “right to health care,” then that is the end of the discussion. “Cost” is a strictly orthogonal non sequitur.

Or maybe, just maybe, there is in fact no such thing as a “right to health care”…

Either way, the buredn is on the health care socialists to resolve the paradox, not on those opposed to it.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/09/make-americans-care-about-costs.html#comment-79833 Anonymous Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:14:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/09/make-americans-care-about-costs.html#comment-79833 Exactly . . . it would certainly not make doctors wash their hands, make rational non-groupthink decisions, stop receiving their "education" from advertisers, prescribe drugs because a little birdie (detail rep) told them that was what all the cool kids were doing.<br/><br/>Yep . . . it definitely wouldn't turn "medicine" into a science. Exactly . . . it would certainly not make doctors wash their hands, make rational non-groupthink decisions, stop receiving their “education” from advertisers, prescribe drugs because a little birdie (detail rep) told them that was what all the cool kids were doing.

Yep . . . it definitely wouldn’t turn “medicine” into a science.

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