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 ...
From the II's Linda Gorman:
According to the Australian Medical Association, every public hospital in New South Wales is dangerously overcrowded, causing 1,500 unnecessary deaths each year. Patients stack up in corridors and emergency rooms waiting for beds. Hospitals routinely cancel elective surgeries. On September 8, 2008, 23 patients with government ...
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Dr. Paul Hsieh of Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine had an excellent op-ed in the (Boulder) Daily Camera yesterday. He calls out Colorado Congressman-elect Jared Polis's inconsistent view on the role of government and markets, and eloquently shows why health care is not a ...
From the Northern Colorado Business Report:
State Rep. John Kefalas, D-Fort Collins, said he plans to introduce a bill in the next session of the Colorado General Assembly aimed at creating a single-payer health-care system for the state.
Kefalas ... called the Colorado Guaranteed Healthcare Act -- would "provide medical coverage to ...
Writes Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute:
The centerpiece of Barack Obama’s healthcare plan may not seem revolutionary at first. Obama would seek to establish a new public health insurance program that would be offered alongside private insurance packages. This would give consumers a real choice in deciding whether the government ...
Just as today's economic mess results from politicians pushing "universal home ownership," the fallout from politicians pushing for "universal health care" will be worse. So argues Paul Hsieh, M.D. of Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine in the Colorado Springs Gazette.
No politician can evade the laws of economic reality. ...
When ...
Will Obama's proposal for a nation-wide mandate for guaranteed issue insurance decimate insurance companies to the point that government will have to "save the day" with a single-payer monopoly that Obama really wants? Consider this from the Associated Press:
Barack Obama's campaign promise should prove irresistible to the millions of uninsured: ...
There are several ways to respond to people who advocate socialized medicine or single-payer health care in the United States. You can start at fundamentals by point out that health care is not a right, and that governmnt-controlled health care violates the rights of physicians and patients. You can point out ...
Sally Pipes from the Pacific Research Institute has published this new book through . Here's the Table of Contents:
Foreword by Steve Forbes
Myth One: Government Health Care Is More Efficient
Myth Two: We're Spending Too Much on Health Care
Myth Three: Forty-Six Million Americans Can't Get Health Care
Myth Four: High Drug Prices Drive ...
