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Vermont’s path to single-payer medicine: coverage will not guarantee care
“Upon examination, Vermont’s new law is not actually the start of single-payer health care, but rather the continuation of failed state government attempts to socialize the state’s health care system.” – Sally Pipes, Pacific Research Inst. Continue reading
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England’s NHS ‘creaking at the seams’ as waiting lists rise
The Telegraph (UK) reminds us that single-payer “universal” health care is really universal misery: “A senior doctors’ leader has warned that the NHS is “creaking at the seams” as official figures showed almost a third more patients are waiting too long to be treated in hospital.” Continue reading
Health care: Maine moves toward freedom, Vermont toward single-payer authoritarianism
Maine adopts free-market reforms (though they conflict with federal health control bill), while Vermont goes single payer. Continue reading
NHS in England fails to meet “even the most basic standards of care”
“The National Health Service is today condemned over its inhumane treatment of elderly patients in an official report that finds hospitals are failing to meet “even the most basic standards of care” for the over-65s” – Telegraph Continue reading
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Canada’s provinces try to curb health care costs, patients don’t know prices
Reuters reports on health care in Canada: Pressured by an aging population and the need to rein in budget deficits, Canada’s provinces are taking tough measures to curb healthcare costs, a trend that could erode the principles of the popular … Continue reading
“Public option”: kept alive by health control bill?
[Post updated in response to Max's comment. Thanks!] The San Francisco Examiner reports: Remember when Obama and congressional Democrats made a big show of dropping the public option government insurance program that was supposedly going to give private insurers competition … Continue reading
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Polis calls for Senate to add “public option” to health care bill
Polis calls for Senate to add public option to health care bill, reports the Daily Camera (Boulder). As Paul Hsieh, MD has noted: In the Dec. 10 [2008] Wall Street Journal, Polis wrote: “Our United States Congress… now finds itself … Continue reading
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Shocking death toll England’s flagship hospital
From the Independent (UK): Poor standards of care at an accident and emergency unit in one of the country’s flagship hospitals may have contributed to the unnecessary deaths of over 400 patients, an official NHS investigation has concluded. Dirty equipment … Continue reading
Art Laffer on Obama Care
Current plans to expand government intervention in the health care system will further inflate prices for Colorado families without improving medical services, says world renowned economist Art Laffer in a new study for the Independence Institute. The study is titled, … Continue reading
Waiting 19 hours for emergency care in Canada
From Unfinished business, Report Card on Wait Times in Canada, published by the Wait Time Alliance: the median wait time for patients requiring an inpatient bed-that is, from the time the patient presented at the ED [emergency department] to the … Continue reading