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 ...
According to Brian Lee Crowley of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (Canada):
Potential physicians are severely restricted in their ability to choose their profession
Physicians are increasingly restricted in whom they can see
Physicians are increasingly restricted in what they can prescribe
Physicians are increasingly restricted in getting their patients access to the ...
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 ...
From a new Cato Institute briefing paper by Michael Cannon:
A reasonable definition of socialized medicine is possible. Socialized medicine exists to the extent that government controls medical resources and socializes the costs. Notice that under this definition, it is irrelevant whether we describe medical resources (e.g., hospitals, employees) as "public" ...
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 ...
Summary: Senator Obama said that if he "were designing a system from scratch, I would probably go ahead with a single-payer system. " This reveals his implicit view of American citizens and the status of citizens under single-payer health care: they are like ingredients and politicians ("designers") are the chefs. It's no surprise that single-payer advocates do not mind or recognize ...
Paul Hsieh's post about this disturbing facet of governement-controlled medicine won this week's Anti-Socialized Medicine Blog Post Contest by Right-Wing News and the David All Group. Congratulations, Paul! Paula Hall had the runner-up post: Pay Doctors, Don't Enslave Them, which also worth reading. Also, thank you to RWN for linking to ...
Summary: Barack Obama opposes monopolies -- but not a government monopoly on paying for health care, a.k.a, single-payer health care. Then it's OK. The "Audacity of Hypocrisy," anyone?
“If I were designing a system from scratch, I would probably go ahead with a single-payer system,” said Barack Obama at a town hall meeting in New ...
“If I were designing a system from scratch, I would probably go ahead with a single-payer system,” said Barack Obama at a town hall meeting in New Mexico. He has said this before, and it should suprise no one. After all, Senator Obama believes that
We need to reclaim the idea that in ...
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