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John C. Goodman

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Name: John C. Goodman

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Martin Feldstein

Why the Left and the Right Cant Talk to Each Other About Health Care

Josh Barrois the latest in a long line of left-of-center critics who fault Republicans for not being real partners in the health care debate. He writes:Liberals are tired of being lectured by conservatives about what’s wrong with their approach to health ... [Published Independent Institute - May 23 2013]

Entities: Martin Feldstein, Health Care, Megan McArdle, Health Insurance

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Navigating the ObamaCare Maze

The Government Is the Worst Vendor Possible for Managing Health-Insurance Exchanges By John C. Goodman | Posted: Tue. May 21, 2013, 12:19pm PTAlso published in Wall Street Journal (paywall) on Mon. May 20, 2013On Oct. 1, millions of Americans are supposed ... [Published Independent Institute - May 22 2013]

Entities: Navigator, Obamacare, John C. Goodman

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Kathleen Sebelius

Viewpoints: Sebelius' 'ethical line'; As tricky phase of health law approaches, concerns about exchanges opening on time

One of the biggest questions hanging over the health-care system is how many young Americans will sign up for coverage once the Affordable Care Act begins to phase in this October. If too few buy insurance on the markets that the government is creating, ... [Published News-Medical.Net - May 21 2013]

Entities: Medicaid, Kathleen Sebelius, Affordable Care Act, Ethical, Obamacare

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Healthcare and the Poor: Why Money Works Better than Waiting

Health policy wonks seem to think the poor should wait longer than othersCommentary by John C GoodmanSource: Psychology TodayWhat I call health policy orthodoxy is committed to two propositions: (1) The really important health issue for poor people is ... [Published National Center For Policy Analysis - May 21 2013]

Entities: John C. Goodman, Health Care, Obamacare, Medicaid

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Barack Obama

The Cruel Things Obama Is Doing to the Labor Market

President Obama’s proposal to increase the minimum wage, combined with existing ObamaCare mandates, will destroy job opportunities for young, unskilled workers in cities and towns across the country.The minimum wage could jump to $9 an hour. ObamaCare ... [Published Independent Institute - May 17 2013]

Entities: Obamacare, Workers, John C. Goodman, Barack Obama, Minimum Wage

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Healthcare and the Poor: Why Money Works Better than Waiting

What I call health policy orthodoxy is committed to two propositions: (1) The really important health issue for poor people is access to care, and (2) to ensure access, waiting for care is always better than paying for care. In other words, if you have ... [Published Psychology Today - May 15 2013]

Entities: National Center For Policy Analysis, Health Care, Obamacare, Medicaid, John C. Goodman

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Devastating News for ObamaCare Backers

Within the White House, within the Democratic chambers in Congress and among the (overwhelmingly liberal) health policy community there was considerable anguish last week. The reason: a new study finds that (as far as physical health is concerned) there ... [Published Independent Institute - May 13 2013]

Entities: Medicaid, Obamacare, Patient, John C. Goodman, Dallas (Texas, United States)

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

The Cruel Things Obama Is DoingTo the Labor Market

President Obamaâs proposal to increase the minimum wage, combined with existing ObamaCare mandates, will destroy job opportunities for young, unskilled workers in cities and towns across the country.The minimum wage could jump to $9 an hour. ObamaCare ... [Published Forbes.com - May 10 2013]

Entities: Obamacare, Workers, Barack Obama, Minimum Wage

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Healthcare as a Complex System

The absence of market prices make it hard to predict the consequences of reform.Commentary by John C GoodmanSource: Psychology TodayComplex systems, by definition, are systems that are too complex for any single individual (or group of individuals) to ... [Published National Center For Policy Analysis - May 09 2013]

Entities: Health Care, Concierge, Affordable Care Act, John C. Goodman

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Our Healthcare System Has Us Trapped

The solution is to eliminate the bad incentives that infect itCommentary by John C GoodmanSource: Psychology TodayThe premise of my latest book, Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, is that most of our problems arise because we are trapped. We are ... [Published National Center For Policy Analysis - May 09 2013]

Entities: Patient, Health Care, John C. Goodman, Incentives, best practice

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Guns, Bombs, and Government

While Congress was dithering about a background-check-for-gun-buyers bill, President Obama was out on the hustings—in full campaign mode—trying to gin up support for it. Listening to the president, you could easily be misled into thinking that the bill ... [Published Independent Institute - May 02 2013]

Entities: Seung-Hui Cho, John C. Goodman, ATF Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms & Explos...

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Malpractice Law is Bad for Your Health

One of the worst features of the American health care system is the sorry state of medical malpractice law. Fewer than 2 percent of injured patients ever file a lawsuit. Of those that do, only one in 15 receives compensation. More than half of every dollar ... [Published Independent Institute - May 02 2013]

Entities: MALPRACTICE, John C. Goodman, Patient, infections

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Why the Left and the Right Cant Talk to Each Ot... [Published Independent Institute - May 23 2013]
Navigating the ObamaCare Maze [Published Independent Institute - May 22 2013]
Viewpoints: Sebelius' 'ethical line'; As tricky... [Published News-Medical.Net - May 21 2013]
Healthcare and the Poor: Why Money Works Better... [Published National Center For Policy Analysis - May 21 2013]
Viewpoints: Sebelius' 'Ethical Line'; As Tricky... [Published Kaiser Health News - May 20 2013]
Wonkbook: What we’re learning about the IRS’s C... [Published Ezra Klein - May 20 2013]
The Cruel Things Obama Is Doing to the Labor Ma... [Published Independent Institute - May 17 2013]
When Private Hospitals Cherry-Pick, Teaching Ho... [Published The Health Care Blog - May 16 2013]
Healthcare and the Poor: Why Money Works Better... [Published Psychology Today - May 15 2013]
Devastating News for ObamaCare Backers [Published Independent Institute - May 13 2013]
The Cruel Things Obama Is DoingTo the Labor Market [Published Forbes.com - May 10 2013]
Healthcare as a Complex System [Published National Center For Policy Analysis - May 09 2013]
Our Healthcare System Has Us Trapped [Published National Center For Policy Analysis - May 09 2013]
Five Perverse Incentives of the Health Insuranc... [Published National Center For Policy Analysis - May 03 2013]
Guns, Bombs, and Government [Published Independent Institute - May 02 2013]
Malpractice Law is Bad for Your Health [Published Independent Institute - May 02 2013]
Medicare Kills a Program, by David Henderson [Published EconLog - May 01 2013]
John C. Goodman: Why ObamaCare May Cost You You... [Published Town Hall - Apr 20 2013]
Buying Insurance Based on Your Genetics [Published Independent Institute - Apr 16 2013]
Obamacare: Penalizing Middle Class Families tha... [Published Sunshine State News - Apr 16 2013]
Employee Benefits Gone Wild [Published The Health Care Blog - Feb 26 2013]
Could Wasteful Healthcare Be Good for the Economy? [Published The Health Care Blog - Feb 01 2013]
Obamacare’s Fiscal Cliff [Published The Health Care Blog - Jan 22 2013]
Repairing ObamaCare [Published The Health Care Blog - Dec 12 2012]
Voting, Public Goods, and Free Riders, by David... [Published EconLog - Nov 26 2012]
DeLong on Obamacare, by David Henderson [Published EconLog - Nov 25 2012]
HSAs force health providers to compete [Published San Francisco Chronicle - Sep 29 2012]

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Wonkbook: What we’re learning about the IRS’s C... [Published Ezra Klein - May 20 2013] Welcome to Wonkbook, Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas’s morning policy news primer. To subscribe by e-mail, click here . Send comments, criticism, or ideas to Wonkbook at Gmail dot com. To read more by Ezra and his team, go to Wonkblog . (Photo by Bill ...
When Private Hospitals Cherry-Pick, Teaching Ho... [Published The Health Care Blog - May 16 2013] By Joanne Conroy, MD I always believed that, if we could harness the entrepreneurial spirit of the American physician, we could be capable of great things. Physician decisions drive much of what is good and bad about our health care system. Their ...
Medicare Kills a Program, by David Henderson [Published EconLog - May 01 2013] What do you do when you find a program that actually works, that is, saves the government money and improves health outcomes? If you're the people who run Medicare, the socialized health insurance program for the elderly, you kill it. Or, at least, ...
Employee Benefits Gone Wild [Published The Health Care Blog - Feb 26 2013] By John Goodman Say “employee benefits” and pensions and health care will jump to most people’s minds. Maybe life and disability insurance will pop up as well. But employers in Silicon Valley are going way beyond that. They’re providing housekeeping, ...
Could Wasteful Healthcare Be Good for the Economy? [Published The Health Care Blog - Feb 01 2013] By John Goodman Suppose I throw a rock through a store owner’s window. You admonish me for this act of vandalism. But I reply that I have actually done a good deed. The store owner will now have to employ someone to haul the broken glass away and ...