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Health Insurance: A Modest Proposal
SEPTEMBER 17, 2009 9:06AM
Topics: motivation, libertarian, constitutional amendment, term limits, private coverage, additional coverage, coverage, responsibility, catastrophe, incentive, privatized, privatize, private, government, regulation, society, universal care, universal, lobbying, for-profit, profit, risk pooling, risk pools, pooling, pool, insurance, business, capitalism, capitalist, socialism, socialist, single payer, same boat, afflict the comfortable, every man for himself, one for all, all for one, equality, health insurance, medical insurance, health care, medical care, care, medical, medicine, politics
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Medical Transparency: The Siren’s Call
AUGUST 26, 2009 9:37AM
Topics: actuarial, insured, insure, catastrophic, catastrophe, incentivize, incentive, privatized, privatize, private, tom coburn, coburn, meet the press, religious, religion, personal responsibility, responsibility, medical savings account, medical savings, savings, government intervention, government regulation, government, intervention, regulation, free market, market, universal coverage, coverage, universal care, care, single payer, public option, socialism, socialist, capitalism, capitalist, for-profit, profit, risk pooling, risk pools, pooling, pool, insurance, business, r&d, research, technology, science, health care, health, medical care, medicine, politics, kennedy, edward m. kennedy, ted kennedy
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Medical Care and the Free-Market Catch-22
AUGUST 22, 2009 4:43PM
Topics: incentivize, incentive, privatized, privatize, private, government intervention, government regulation, government, intervention, regulation, free market, market, unseen hand, eligibility, existing condition, pre-existing condition, exclusion, exclude, universal coverage, coverage, universal care, care, single payer, public option, socialism, socialist, capitalism, capitalist, for-profit, profit, risk pooling, risk pools, pooling, pool, insurance, business, health care, health, medical care, medicine, irresolvable, conflicting, unhelpful, hypocrite, hypocrisy, overconstrained, paradoxical, paradox, conundrum, impossible bind, double bind, catch-22, politics
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Is Doing Good the Same as Not Doing Harm?
NOVEMBER 12, 2008 10:22AM
Topics: politics, spying, medical, ethics, search, search engine, google, askeraser, second-hand use, second-hand information, information, freedom, privacy, information misuse, flu, epidemic, pandemic, bird flu, heuristic, prediction, insurance, risk, risk pools, pre-existing condition, surveillance
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