Defending the proposal for a politically-controlled monopolistic government insurance plan in Colorado, Rep. Daniel Kagan (D-Cherry Hills Village) said:
"I think it is our responsibility that every single Coloradan, regardless of their wealth or position in society, get the health care they need ... It is our obligation."
Let's say this is ...
...every wealthy country except the United States already has some form of guaranteed health care. ...The politics of guaranteed care are also easy, at least in one sense: if the Democrats do manage to establish a system of universal coverage, the nation will love it. I know that’s not what ...
Barack Obama says we should "believe that health care should finally be the right of every American." The Economist recently published an excellent letter (on-line) by Dr. Paul Hsieh that refutes this:
SIR - Governments should not guarantee health care as a "right" ("Running for cover", special briefing on the US election, October 4th). Rights are freedoms ...
The following letter on the dangers and immorality of single-payer health care was co-authored by Brian Schwartz, Ph.D. and Paul Hsieh, M.D. in response to an article in the April 2008 issue of Annals of Surgery supporting such a policy (Sarpel U, Vladeck B, Divino C, et al. Fact and ...
It's that fundamental belief — I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper — that makes this country work. -- Barack Obama, 2004 Democratic National Convention
...the future of America rests on how well we recognize that we are in this together . . . that we are writing a shared ...
Summary: The best defense of Health Savings Accounts is not that they promote wise spending and bring costs down. It's that they are a step toward a more ethical tax policy.
Conservatives, Republicans, and free-market advocates often tout Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) as a means of controlling costs. Yet, critics of HSAs will ...
Socialist politician Aneurin Bevan, father of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS), has stated that “everyone should be treated alike in the matter of medical care" and that "the essence of a satisfactory health service is that rich and poor are treated alike, that poverty is not a disability and wealth ...
In honor of Independence Day, it is appropriate for today's post to concern the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson. After all, Patient Power is the health care blog of the Independence Institute.
Via a web search, one of the first pages I found was from RightToHealthCare.org, which attempts ...
Problem: Doctors may stop seeing Medicare patients because the reimbursement rates are so low.
The solution? At least one blog commenter wants to make Medicare the only game in town so doctors either put up or shut up.
Bloomberg News reports:
James King, a doctor in Selmer, Tenn., doesn’t take new Medicare patients. More ...
In a previous post I challenged the notion that medical care is like services we receive from the fire department — a flawed analogy to justify politician-controlled single-payer health care. In it I claim that a more accurate analogy is that medical insurance is like homeowners or renters insurance.
Colorado single-payer advocate ...
