Best News Yet for ObamaCare: Recessions May Be Good for Your Health!

Yours truly at National Review Online.

Friday Parting Shots

Over at National Review Online.

Rep. Eric Cantor Misses An Opportunity On Health Reform

I deconstruct his performance at a recent town hall, at National Review Online.

Baucus Believes Politicians Alone Should Control Health-Reform Talks

Attack on health insurer Humana, Inc. is incredible: Yours truly in National Review Online.

Run Health Care Like A Fire Department?

Some think access to medical care should be a public service, run by the state. However, there are important differences rendering the analogy invalid: My column at Freedom Politics.

Doctors 7X More Satisfied With Payments from Private Insurers as Medicare

Yours truly, at John Goodman Health Blog.

Sen. Wyden Back in Health-Reform Game

This is a good thing, as I argue in National Review Online.

The President's Health-Insurance Horror Stories Don't Add Up

It's been illegal for insurers to drop sick people since 1997: Yours truly at John Goodman Health Blog.

Jesse Jackson on Health Reform!

My response at National Review Online.

Will the Chickens Roost in the CO-OP? Senator Baucus' "Framework"

As Sen. Baucus, leader of the "Gang of Six" senators, prepares for his deadline to whoosh by this week, I review his Framework for reform.

The Best Health Reform You've Never Heard Of In Today's Debate

Yours truly on consumer-driven health care at RealClearPolitics.

Yet Another Reason to Make Health Insurance the Property of the People

Medicare makes a mess of kidney failure: Yours truly deconstructs a New York Times article at National Review Online.

Health Spending Crisis in Perspective

Your truly's column in the Detroit News.

Union Power and Patient Care Are Incompatible: California Evidence

I recently wrote a column describing one of the major (unstated) goals of the federal take-over of Americans' access to medical services: giving union bosses control of hospitals and other health-care providers.

The media will not figure this out, but a couple of stories the last few days suggest that this is already happening, and describe a negative relationship between union power in medical services and access to care. Read more at State House Call.

Radio interview with Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation interviewed me after President Obama's speech. Audio and transcript here.

Make September the New August: Tips to Stop the Federal Health-Care Take-Over

Representative Joe Wilson earned a lot of criticism for calling the President a liar. The President's legislative opponents shoudn't waste their time in DC, but go back to their districts, where real discussion was happening. More at National Review Online.

Medical Malpractice Reform: Will Republicans Take The Bait?

The only new thing in the President's speech last night was his death-bed conversion to medical-malpractice reform, which one presumes is designed to draw some Republicans onside. It would be a bad idea for a couple of reasons, which I describe at National Review Online.

San Francisco's Employer Health Tax: Change We Can Do Without

San Francisco's job-killing tax on employers to fund the public-health bureaucracy has garnered some scholarly support, which I rouse myself to challenge in this month's Capital Ideas.

California Republicans Hike Taxes To Rope Kids Into Government-Controlled Health Care

President Obama's so-called "stimulus" bill is working just as intended: Even Republican state legislators are voting to hike taxes to increase government control of kids' access to medical services. Read more at StateHouseCall.