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Colorado HB 1273: “Our responsibility” that Coloradans get medical care?
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Ayn Rand, CO Guaranteed Healthcare Act, Colorado HB 09-1273, Colorado HB 1273, persuasion, right to health care
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Health care: Individual or “Collective” Responsibility?
Paul Krugman has broached the core issue behind health care policy: Whether or not health care is an individual or collective responsibility. The health care debate isn’t about the intricacies of one plan vs. another. It’s about the ethics: individualism vs. collectivism, or free-market medicine vs. politically-controlled medicine. Continue reading
Obama: health care should be a “right”
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“, … Continue reading
Single-Payer Health Care: Immoral and Deadly
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 … Continue reading
Be your “brother’s keeper,” or else!
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 … Continue reading
How to argue for Health Savings Accounts
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 … Continue reading
Equality and health care
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 … Continue reading
Jefferson, rights, and health care
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 … Continue reading
Dehumanizing doctors
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP, morality, physicians & medical quality
Tagged Medicare
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Nanny-state health care
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 … Continue reading