Here's the link to the article at AmCon. 

If eradicating polio is a good idea, how 'bout other diseases?

The Washington Post editorializes today in favor of eradicating polio.  Great idea--so why not extend that idea to other maladies?  After all, it's cheaper to beat than to treat. 

Why Neither Party is Winning: The Search for a Better Healthcare Model

Just posted on FoxNews.com, including this discussion of healthcare in the context of the budget battles:

In addition, all attempts at projecting budget savings for programs such as health care suffer from a reversal of cause and effect. 

If people are sick, such programs will be expensive, no matter what some Beltway bean-counter might decree. So therefore, self-declared budget experts would be better advised focusing on ways to cure sickness, because if people were healthier, budget savings would come automatically.

Two new pieces published at the Manhattan Institute's Medical Progress Today

Parts one and two of a Spenglerian series.

Seen on The Daily Beast website: the US government advertising the Affordable Care Act.

"The Alzheimer's 'Time Bomb' and the Supply-Side Solution" -- posted at Medical Progress Today

Here's the link to that piece at the Manhattan Institute blog. 

Alzheimer's is science issue, not a finance issue

The Telegraph reports on the conclusion of Dr. Peter Piot, an early voice on AIDS, declaring that dementia stemming from Alzheimer's could be the "next global health time bomb."  The 36 million sufferers in the world today will double by 2020.

In the US, six million people have Alzheimer's, at a cost to the US economy of $172 billion.  And both of those numbers will rise rapidly, to a cumulative AD cost of $20 trillion by 2050.

This is not a finance issue.  This is a science issue.    Either we come up with an effective treatment for AD/dementia or we face a future of enormous costs and/or drastic measures to reduce those costs.   And we do mean "drastic," in a way that could unhinge the idea of a safety net and a decent society.

The solution to AIDS was better treatment, which in many cases is the equivalent of a cure.  That medical-science action has saved the US economy hundreds of billions, not to mention the compassionate benefits.