marginalrevolution.com - 5/14/2009
—
Rocco is bored | Main | Robin Goldstein is excellent More health care cost fallacies This comes from Robert Reich but you will find it all over the place: Social Security is a tiny problem. Medicare is a terrible one, but the problem is not really Medicare; it's quickly rising health-care ...
politics.theatlantic.com - 5/11/2009
—
politics.theatlantic.com —
The White House just held an embargoed briefing
for reporters about a new health care cost initiative...
that will be announced tomorrow. I'll respect the embargo, even though the Associated Press has got the basics of it in a dispatch: representatives ...
(more)
Health Care Deal In The Works?
outsidethebeltway.com - 5/16/2009
—
outsidethebeltway.com —
Tyler Cowen has three health care fallacies and
the first one is something I’ve mentioned before (and...
tooke quite a bit of heat for), Today’s report is this: The financial outlook for Medicare and Social Security has significantly ...
(more)
Health Care Fallacy #1
foxnews.com - 5/13/2009
—
foxnews.com —
WASHINGTON -- Most people with job-based health insurance
don't think of their benefits as a form of...
income. But Uncle Sam might just change that. Senators are considering limiting -- but not eliminating -- the tax-free status of employer-provided ...
(more)
Tax Health Care to Pay for Health Care? - Presidential ...
Comments
Blog Reactions
It's Not Just Rising Health Care Costs
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Tyler Cowen tackles Robert Reich and the rising health care costs fallacy once again: ...if Medicare were less generous, much less would be spent on health care. Now you might think that would be a bad result and that of course a debate worth having. ...
Healthcare Realities
The Glittering Eye —
... which we might wish to engage. That President Obama recognizes this is signalled by his moving healthcare reform from the back to the front burner of the national agenda.
It’s understandable that econbloggers are ruminating on healthcare reform. Recently, Tyler Cowen has published a series of posts on healthcare costs fallacies. Stated in bullet form so far they are:
Major items in the federal budget should not be considered in isolation.
Medicare is the problem.
Any healthcare reform should be consistent with current ...
Related Content
Spot the Fallacies
mahablog.com 7/8/2009 — I spent a big chunk of the day writing the previous post and now don’t have time to give this blog post the attention it deserves. But you guys are sharp; I betcha you can find in it the same logical fallacies that I did. I’ll come back and discuss it further if I get a break.
Why Won’t Obama Tell Us About The Cost Of Health Care?
blogs.tnr.com 6/4/2009 — As health care reform enters the phase of serious legislation, it becomes vital to understand what the American people expect and believe ... and how the forthcoming debate is likely to affect their views. Because no one has tracked these matters more ...
Kennedy Health Care Reform Bill Released -- Help Us Read Through It
docstoc.com 6/10/2009 — Dropping in at 615 pages is the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee's attempt to fix the broken health care system. The HELP Committee is chaired by Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.). The second-ranking Democrat, Sen. Chris Dodd of ...
Climate Change and Argumentative Fallacies
juliansanchez.com 4/7/2009 — Via Brad Plumer, I see Cato’s Jerry Taylor is riled at responses to an open letter ad the Institute published in which a group of scientists signed off on a statement questioning the strength of the case for catastrophic climate change. ...
Nizkor: Fallacies
nizkor.org 8/11/2009 — Dr. Michael C. Labossiere, the author of a Macintosh tutorial named Fallacy Tutorial Pro 3.0, has kindly agreed to allow the text of his work to appear on the Nizkor site, as a Nizkor Feature. It remains © Copyright 1995 Michael C. Labossiere, with ...
Myths, fallacies and taxes - Press
presstelegram.com 6/28/2009 — Are Californians overtaxed? It all depends on who's doing the math. Last month California voters sent an unambiguous message to the Legislature. Tired of high taxes and convinced that the Legislature wasn't trying hard enough to balance a chronically ...
Obama says health care this year — or never
msnbc.msn.com 5/28/2009 — President Barack Obama warned Thursday that if Congress doesn't deliver health care legislation by the end of the year the opportunity will be lost, a plea to political supporters to pressure lawmakers to act.
Follow BeltwayBlips on Twitter
