Tag: "health care reform"

Stethoscope-Money
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Do We Want More Affordable Health Care? Then We Need To Leave Health Care To The Free Market

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ACA only increases the problems.

Like Your Plan Keep Your Plan - Obama
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Why President Obama Lied

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A 1994 TV ad explains much.

Anti-Life Provisions of the 2010 Health Care Reform Law
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Anti-Life Provisions of the 2010 Health Care Reform Law

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Pub.L. 111-148, enacted on March 23, 2010, substantially expands funding of abortions by federal tax dollars.  Federal tax dollars, of course, are your dollars, conscripted to serve the federal government’s purposes.  This article provides the nuts and bolts of one of the several ways this will happen […]

Bishops Renew Plea to Congress and Administration to Repair Affordable Care Act
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Bishops Renew Plea to Congress and Administration to Repair Affordable Care Act

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Today the United States Supreme Court issued a decision upholding as a tax the provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that requires individuals to purchase a health plan—the so-called “individual mandate.” For nearly a century, the Catholic bishops of the United States have been and continue to be consistent advocates for comprehensive health care […]

History Lessons -- Embarrassing yet Valuable
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History Lessons — Embarrassing yet Valuable

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When asked to comment on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ rejection of the so-called HHS “accommodation,” White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney, said, “I would simply note with regard to the bishops that they never supported healthcare reform to begin with.” Apparently, either Mr. Carney’s memory is failing or his trousers are ablaze. […]

In Rights Hierarchy Freedom Must Come Before Healthcare
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In Rights Hierarchy Freedom Must Come Before Healthcare

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A few weeks ago I published an article entitled “Responsibility, Solidarity, and Healthcare,” its several points being: Covering routine, non-catastrophic healthcare increases costs and reduces access to healthcare in two ways a. it makes the health care cost more b. it makes insurance more costly The Catholic principle of solidarity means that we should not […]

The High Cost of Capitulation
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The High Cost of Capitulation

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Most reasonable people would agree that tossing a set of car keys to a drunkard is irresponsible even if the inebriated party manages to slur out a solemn pledge to drive carefully. That’s just common sense, right? So, what should we call a willingness to place the nation’s healthcare system in the hands of the […]

Distributism and the Health Care System, Part 2: Ending Oligarchies and Monopolies
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Distributism and the Health Care System, Part 2: Ending Oligarchies and Monopolies

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It should be clear that the vast majority of current thinking about the problem does little to address the underlying causes of our dilemma [see Part 1].  And this is odd because the mechanics of prices are well known and have been since the time of Aristotle. No competent economist of whatever school disputes these […]

Responsibility, Solidarity, and Healthcare
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Responsibility, Solidarity, and Healthcare

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A recent article on Catholic Lane took up the question of whether widespread misuse of insurance was contributing to rising healthcare costs and in turn making healthcare less affordable. The point was made that when people are self-employed and purchase their own coverage, they usually opt to have only catastrophic coverage, reasoning that the cost […]

Our Health is Overinsured!
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Our Health is Overinsured!

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One of the arguments for healthcare reform is that millions of Americans with employer-provided healthcare are underinsured. Proponents of this view are saying that people are underinsured if they are paying too many of their healthcare costs out-of-pocket. Quite the contrary, a little reflection on what insurance is and is supposed to do suggests that […]