A study by June O’Neill and Dave M. O’Neill (link) suggests that the U.S health care system provides more choice, efficiency, better delivery and capacity than the Canadian system:
“Does Canada’s publicly funded, single payer health care system deliver better health outcomes and distribute health resources more equitably than the multi-payer heavily private U.S. system? We [...]

David O. Meltzer and Zhuo Chen explored the relationship between minimum wage rate in the U.S and body weight (link):
“Growing consumption of increasingly less expensive food, and especially “fast food”, has been cited as a potential cause of increasing rate of obesity in the United States over the past several decades. Because the real minimum [...]

“There has to be a counterweight to the malevolence of the insurance industry.” So says Senator Jay Rockefeller said to mop-topped interviewer Al Hunt of Bloomberg.
Malevolence? What’s next out of the mouth of the Democratic senator from the state of Tourette’s syndrome?
You will wait in vain for the industry to fight back hard against [...]

One of the recent comments on this blog was in response to my post about whether patients should be able to direct their care. The “cyberchondriac” patient who comes armed with the latest and greatest in treatment options also reminds me of the patient who has done lots of research about his physician online. The [...]

On Thursday night the government announced it was suspending the Cash-For-Clunkers program. In my twitterstream I reacted as follows:
dhsmith24 Cash for clunkers suspended w/i a week. What the heck are these guys doing? And they want to run #healthcare?
The doubt this #fail creates is real enough, but there is more, and Hugh Hewitt has [...]