Category: John C Goodman

Health Affairs Blog – John Goodman comments on the deadly shortage of drugs exacerbated by government regulation

The Health Care Blog: John Goodman explains how patients benefit by controlling more of their own health care decisions.

Health Care News – John Goodman commentary on competition among health care providers and their ability to compete based on price and quality of care.

Wall Street Journal – While critics portray Republicans as Medicare grinches, the NCPA’s John Goodman and Tom Saving show in an oped in this morning’s Wall St. Journal (link) that there is very little difference between what Rep. Paul Ryan’s plan will spend on Medicare and what ObamaCare does, but with very different results for seniors.

The Health Care Blog – In a recent commentary on The Health Care Blog, Goodman argues for an alternative to malpractice that ensures patients are fairly protected.

Health Care News: Dr. Goodman analyzes the future of Medicare in a recent Health Care News commentary

Townhall –  John Goodman’s latest commentary stirs debate over the actual costs of health care for the uninsured.

Health Affairs Blog – John Goodman and Thomas Saving explain the
impact Obamacare will have on Medicare.

The Health Care Blog – The economics of service vs. price for Medicare enrollees from John Goodman.

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has proposed a Medicare reform plan that is being contrasted with the approach adopted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), what some people call ObamaCare. The plan is the centerpiece of the House Republican budget; it’s attracting a lot of criticism from the Obama administration and from left-of-center commentators; and even Republicans seem to be backing away from it.

Texas Insider – About three decades ago, University of Chicago law professor Richard Epstein proposed a radical alternative to our system of malpractice liability. He called it ‘liability by contract.’ The idea: let patients and doctors voluntarily agree in advance how to resolve things if something goes wrong.

Health Affairs Blog: In our third-party-payer health insurance system the price for care is typically set by entities external to the doctor-patient relationship. As a result, providers rarely compete for patients based on money prices.

Texas Insider – Here are the five most important things you need to know about Paul Ryan, Barack Obama and Medicare. You won’t find this anywhere else.

Townhall.com – Hospitals are dangerous places to be. At least if you are a patient. My colleagues Biff Jones and Pam Villarreal and I estimate that as many as 187,000 patients die every year for some reason other than the medical condition which caused them to seek care. We also estimate there are 6.1 million injuries caused by the health care system, including hospital acquired infections that afflict one in every 20 hospital patients.

The Asco Post – The potential of a disaster occurring from the peaceful use of radiation in Japan more than 65 years after the wartime devastation wrought by nuclear weapons is fateful. While the radiation that caused the wartime devastation could not be seen, the aftermath was viewed worldwide.

The Asco Post – The potential of a disaster occurring from the peaceful use of radiation in Japan more than 65 years after the wartime devastation wrought by nuclear weapons is fateful. While the radiation that caused the wartime devastation could not be seen, the aftermath was viewed worldwide.

National Review Online – The Republicans have no plan to insure the uninsured. How do I know that? A New York Times editorial told me. So did Ezra Klein, writing in the Washington Post. But wait. Didn’t John McCain have such a plan during the last presidential election?

Townhall.com: Jack Lew is lucky he isn’t in prison. Were he representing a private pension fund and if he made the sort of statements he made in USA Today the other day, he might well be sharing a cell with Bernie Madoff. So who is Jack Lew? And what did he say?

Kaiser Health News: As governors across the land struggle with fiscal pressures and pepper the federal government with requests to scale back Medicaid – many people are losing sight of the fact that health care reform (what some call ObamaCare) requires a huge expansion of Medicaid.

Health Affairs Blog: Go to the web site of the Detroit Medical Center (DMC) and you will learn that DMC facilities rank among the ‘nation’s best hospitals’ by U.S. News & World Report and that they have won other awards. The DMC has some of the ‘best’ heart doctors; it is ‘tops’ in cancer care; and it ranks among the ‘nation’s safest hospitals.’

Investor’s Business Daily – Anniversaries are usually a time for celebration, but the one-year anniversary of ObamaCare is nothing to celebrate.

TownHall.com: President Obama has repeatedly given us his vision of how to lower the cost of health care and raise its quality: Find out what works; then get everyone else to copy it. Toward that end, the administration is making millions of dollars available for pilot programs and demonstration projects. Will any of this work?

The Health Care Blog – Nationwide, Medicare will start paying fees to ACOs, beginning next year. Eventually, the Obama administration would like to see everyone in an ACO.

Health Affairs Blog:  Over the next decade I believe we are going to see a major transformation of American medicine. It won't be the kind of transformation that is normally discussed at health care conferences and at inside-the-Beltway briefings. Nor will it be the kind of change anticipated by the people who gave us the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare). Instead, what I envision is a large migration of patients and doctors, and facilities and services out of the third-party payer system.

Kaiser Health News: When President Barack Obama addresses the nation in his State of the Union message, the big topic on the minds of many in the public policy community will be out of control entitlement spending. Will the president follow the lead of Christine Romer, the former head of his Council for Economic Advisors, and endorse the recommendations of his own bipartisan deficit commission, chaired by former Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., and former Clinton White House aide Erskine Bowles? Or will he punt?