Health Care Reform: Liberate Patients or Oppress Them?
Though you would never know it from the news reports, the brightest hope for health care reform lies in the consumer directed health care movement.
Pioneering physicians, like Heather Sowell and Jonathan Sheldon at the Sheldon Sowell Center for Health in Englewood, and Vern Cherewatenko of Washington State, have opened practices that protect patients and physicians from the excessive overhead costs imposed by governments and insurance companies. By requiring payment at time of service they can eliminate overhead, charge fees that are 30 to 50 percent lower, and make health care affordable for almost everyone.
Health Care Reform: Liberate Patients or Oppress Them
Though you would never know it from the news reports, the brightest hope for health care reform lies in the consumer directed health care movement. Pioneering physicians, like Heather Sowell and Jonathan Sheldon at the Sheldon Sowell Center for Health in Englewood, and Vern Cherewatenko of Washington State, have opened practices that protect patients and […]
The Simple Care Solution
With prescription drug benefits being debated in Congress, increasing concern in the state legislature over double-digit percentage increases in health care spending and health insurance premiums, and the alarming number of uninsured Americans, one wonders if increasing legislation is really the solution to our health care problems.
It’s Not Too Late: To Avoid Congestion After T-REX
By using the power of the market to help the T-REX project, congestion-free, free-flow traffic travel can be made available to both carpoolers and single occupant drivers. Further, $600 million can be pocketed by the state. By contrast, a decision to forego over a half billion dollars of desperately-needed transportation revenues will doom travelers to sit again in traffic congestion in the not-too-distant future.
Don't Lock-in Nineteenth-Century Technology
Rail transit is not and will never be a remedy for possible future oil shortages.
Quintana Roo, Mexico?
Only about forty percent of eligible voters turned out for Mexico’s mid-term elections on July 6th, not quite the revolutionary drama of election 2000 when Vicente Fox ended over seven decades of authoritarian one party rule by the Institutional Revolutionary party (PRI) and thousands of Mexicans crossed over the border from the U.S to vote. It was a pretty expensive show of apathy, with just over $500 million in public election funding having been handed out to the eleven parties running candidates for federal deputy in Mexico’s 500 seat lower house of congress. Those voters that did show up handed President Fox and his National Action party (PAN) a setback and at the same time gave a thumbs up to authoritarian leftist rule in Mexico.
