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Obama’s Plan to End Private Health Insurance
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 … Continue reading
The health care bailout of 2018
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 … Continue reading
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Obama’s health care reform: road to single-payer serfdom?
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 … Continue reading
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Learning from Arizona Proposition 101
Should supporters of health care freedom try to emulate Arizona’s Proposition 101 in other states, it’s worth learning from this measure that almost passed. I suspect the arguments against 101 described below are disingenuous. Even if the proposition were tweaked … Continue reading
Physicans in Canada
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 … Continue reading
Top Ten Myths of American Health Care
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 … Continue reading
Does Obama Support Socialized Medicine?
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 … Continue reading
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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
Single-Payer Health Care Treats People Like Pawns
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 … Continue reading