Medicare Costs Are Going Down: Thanks, Obamacare?

While national spending on health care is sky-rocketing, we can be thankful to Obamacare for one thing: the direct costs of Medicare are not projected to be quite as high as the Congressional Budget Office once thought. Why is that? And some [of the decrease in Medicare spending is] because of cuts in health care […]

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One More Reason Halfway Socialized Healthcare is the Worst

A few years ago, a company called Genentech developed a cancer treatment it called Avastin. Avastin was a very expensive and dubiously effective cancer treatment, but it turned out to be great at treating Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration—an eye disease that causes blindness in older patients. Another plus—an extraordinarily small dose of Avastin was sufficient […]

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