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U.S. Health Care & U.S. Productivity: A Dissent
By: John R. Graham
12.23.2010
One of the great myths about American society is that our lack of a "universal" health plan harms our competitiveness. The masters of this refrain, of course, are the American automakers. Years before driving themselves into bankruptcy and the unwelcoming arms of their new owners, the American taxpayers, they used to claim that they spent up to $1,600 per car on health care. This was more than they spent on steel, and a multiple of what they claimed their foreign competitors spent. In her well received book, Who Killed Health Care? America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem – And the Consumer-Driven Cure (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2007), Professor Regina Herzlinger of Harvard Business School claims that these complaints are inflated (pp. 104-105).
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Myth of the Massachusetts Health-Insurance Mandate
By: John R. Graham
12.17.2010
Remember the Massachusetts health reform, signed by Gov. Mitt Romney in April 2006? Some Obamacare cheerleaders (including the President) insist that it was the forerunner of Obamacare (and Gov. Romney is having a heck of a time distancing himself from it).
There is a media myth that the individual mandate (that you must pay a fine if you don't buy government-approved health insurance) is critical to the law's so-called "success". Well, it's not true.
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