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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Avastin & FDA: There’s No ‘Average’ Cancer Patient
Last year, the FDA began the process of revoking Avastin’s approval for breast cancer. … What is the logic of keeping terminally ill patients from potential treatments? Can’t they at least go down fighting? Continue reading
What’s wrong with “evidence based medicine”?
John Goodman lists the problems with “evidence based medicine.” Think of it this way: What if there were a rule that says you can’t do anything during the week unless it is on the calendar by Sunday. Call this “calendar-based scheduling.” Instead of being an aide, the calendar would quickly become an oppressive barrier to your freedom of action. Continue reading
Hickenlooper’s veto of SB 11-213 insults low-income parents
Maintaining current Child Health Plan fees would not only be an injustice to taxpayers, but also an insult to eligible parents. The fees imply that parents value enjoying life’s amenities more than their own children’s health. Continue reading
The FDA, Avastin, and death panels
“The FDA, stuck in its 1960s Thalidomide glory days mindset, denies Americans access to life-saving drugs. …[D]espite its intentions, [the FDA] drives up the costs of medicines & often dries up the supply chain altogether. America is currently facing a shortage of about 246 drugs – a record high.” – Milton Wolf, MD Continue reading
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Accountable Care Organizations: Soviet-style command & control medicine that strangles innovation & quality
Accountable Care Organizations “will become the medical equivalent of the state-run giant collective farms that failed to feed the USSR. Central planning will strangle innovation in American medicine just as it strangled the Eastern Bloc economies during the Cold War.” Continue reading
RomneyCare = ObamaCare: “Mass. health care costs outpace nation”
Despite “reform,” passed by aspiring Presidential candidate Mitt Romney as Massachusetts governor, both medical spending and prices of medical care increased in the state. Continue reading
Stores offer free health care, until “reform” forces you to pay for it
John Goodman describes how Sam’s Club and Walmart offer free health screenings, blood pressure tests, cholesterol tests, etc., the health control bill (HR 3590) will make these obsolete by requiring all health plans to cover such services, and requiring us to pay for them. Continue reading
Health care “reform” and “accountable care” vs. doctors’ autonomy
Under ObamaCare, doctors “lose their ability to practice medicine as they envisioned. The government will be making so many decisions about how doctors will be paid, what they will be paid, and what type of practice they can establish and operate.” Continue reading
ObamaCare’s tough day in court
Assuming the high court deigns to hear the case, [there's] awkward reality that one of the Supreme Court justices, Elena Kagan, was obviously involved in orchestrating the legal defense of ObamaCare. Thus, there will be legitimate calls for her to recuse herself from any case involving that law. Continue reading
ObamaCare: replacing employer-based insurance w/ subsidized health plans
A new study by McKinsey suggests that as many as 78 million Americans could lose employer health coverage, and some will end up with tax-funded subsidies for politically defined health plans. Continue reading