Archive for the ‘coverage is not care’ Category
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Despite all the wishful thinking in the world, politicians cannot guarantee that people get required medical care by making it a crime for them not to have insurance (as defined by politicians.) From last week's Boston Globe:
The wait to see primary care doctors in Massachusetts has grown to as long ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Continued from Part 5.
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Competition has begun to improve America's health care. Example, laser eye surgeons, cosmetic surgeons. Costs decreases, quality increases. Patients pay doctors directly.
Medical clinics staffed by nurse practioners. Inexpensive routine care. E.g., RediClinic, MinuteClinic.
Doctors who do not accept insurance. E.g., Patmos EmergiClinic. Uninsured patients save money, providers keep ...
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Paul Hsieh's post about this disturbing facet of governement-controlled medicine won this week's Anti-Socialized Medicine Blog Post Contest by Right-Wing News and the David All Group. Congratulations, Paul! Paula Hall had the runner-up post: Pay Doctors, Don't Enslave Them, which also worth reading. Also, thank you to RWN for linking to my ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
What’s easy about guaranteed health care for all? For one thing, we know that it’s economically feasible: every wealthy country except the United States already has some form of guaranteed health care. - Paul Krugman, August 10, 2008
Many pundits see red at the words "single-payer system." They think it means ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
Continued from Part 2.
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Is "free" medical care in France, Germany, Britain, and Canada is really wonderful?
When products are free at the point of service, demand goes through the roof. People pay by waiting.
England: 18 week wait for hospital care, people lined about around the block for dental care, or pull teeth themselves. "Don't wash the sheets, ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
From the Daily Mail :
How the NHS is letting my father die - by a top hospital consultant
by Sarah Anderson
Eye specialist Sarah Anderson works at York Hospital . Her father Ian has been refused Sutent, a new cancer drug, which could provide the only real chance of prolonging his life. ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Last week the Globe and Mail reported that:
More than 100 Canadian women with high-risk pregnancies have been sent to United States hospitals over the past year – in what a doctors' group attributes to the lack of a national birthing plan.
The problem has peaked, with British Columbia and Ontario each ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
What good is having medical insurance if you cannot get medical care? Peddlers of "universal health care" -- from Hillary, Obama, to Colorado congressional candidate Jared Polis -- don't get this.
"Universal health care" is false advertising for politically-controlled medicine, with government as the "single-payer" monopolistic insurer. But having coverage does ...
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