Archive for the ‘single payer’ Category

Polis calls for Senate to add “public option” to health care bill

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

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 poring over 'business plans' submitted this week by Ford, GM and ...

Shocking death toll England’s flagship hospital

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

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 and an absence of leadership contributed to a death rate almost ...

Waiting 19 hours for emergency care in Canada

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

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 time they were admitted to an inpatient bed-was 19 hours (average ...

Obama Care

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

We all agree that medical care should cost less and be available to more people. The problem is that most of the health care reform proposals coming from Congress and the White House are reforms designed to give government more control over your medical care. Though the politicians say otherwise, ...

Single-payer “universal” car care

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

This video is an entry for the Galen's Institute's "Do No Harm" contest.  All the entries are here.  I haven't watched them all, but I've learned something. Each video is about 90 seconds. If it doesn't grab my attention in the first 10 seconds or so, I move on to ...

The “public plan” deception? Isn’t it about choice?

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

A scary video showing that the proponents of the "public" medical insurance plan see this as a means to establishing a monopoly on medical insurance. I'd like to see this video go "viral." If you would too, take a moment to help make it happen! See background information on the video ...

Canadian gov’t: “no freestanding constitutional right to health care”

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Bottom line: The province of British Columbia claims that there is constitutional right to health care.  Yet, it's illegal to pay a doctor for services for medical care that's covered by the government plan.  But why would you do that?  Maybe if you want the care now, instead of waiting ...

In Canada, regulators decide who gets care

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

On April 14 the Denver Post published an excellent letter by Tish Jeffers of Centennial.  Excellent work, Tish! Re: “Look to Canada for single-payer success,” April 11 letter to the editor. So, Timothy Snowden, who visits Canada often, has polled the entire population about their single-payer health system? He hit the nail ...

Natasha Richardson and Canadian health care

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

From an AP story last week: ... questions are arising over whether a medical helicopter might have been able to save the ailing actress. The province of Quebec lacks a medical helicopter system, common in the United States and other parts of Canada, to airlift stricken patients to major trauma centers. Montreal's ...

Canadian government: You’re “too old” for hip surgery

Friday, February 27th, 2009

This and other disturbing reminders of what happens when government "guarantees" health care - see the article in the Wall Street Journal. via FIRM.