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There's hope for price competition in healthcare, but so far only with companies that self-insure and pay for all employee's medical costs. I do my part by advocating price transparency for hospitals to create competition and put downward pressure on insurance rates. Simply require hospitals that accept federal money to post binding prices for the 25 most common in-patient surgeries; the 25 most common outpatient procedures and the 25 most common tests. These turnkey charges must also match the...
If homeowner's insurance worked like Obamacare, in no time at all homelessness would be a viable option for residents trying to lower their insurance cost. Under Obamahome, construction contractors would talk endlessly about how compassionate their employees are. Edgy companies would assert that dealing with an English-speaking crew makes rebuilding your home a breeze. But no company would be talking prices or making binding estimates. Instead homeowners would hire the company that was closest...
The nation just witnessed what the OpMedia and the Commentariat like to call "bipartisan legislation." The occasion was the two-year spending-palooza that Curator of the Senate Mitch McConnell and The Boy Ryan passed. It was bipartisan in the sense that country club conservatives let Democrats waste $150 million on social programs, so they could waste an equal amount at the Pentagon Mall. It wasn't a genuine compromise any more than two addicts agreeing to split stolen money between heroin and...
