Archive for the ‘Single Payer’ Category
Monday, August 18th, 2008
See their editorial from last week. If you like it, do send them a kind word here. Surely such positive reenforcement will make it more likely that they write more pro-liberty pieces in the future.
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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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Topics:
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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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Pushing single-payer politically-controlled health care, Princeton health care economist Uwe Reinhardt says:
"[Americans] act more and more like a people sharing a geography. You don’t have the ethos that goes with being a nation. In Canada, in Taiwan, they view health care as the cement that makes a nation out of a ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
"Profit is a perverse incentive for quality health care: imagine for-profit fire or police protection," writes Michelle Swenson in support of single-payer health care. Louise at Colorado Health Insurance Insider has made the same comparison. Most notably, Michael Moore has also.
In this post I'll address the police analogy. (I address ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
From Sunday's New York Times:
In the Czech Republic, you can now see a doctor for about $1.85. A day in the hospital can verge on $4. This is not cause for celebration.
For Czechs, who visit their doctors more often than anyone else in Europe, it has led to great outrage. ...
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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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