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UK Doctors Withholding Treatment Information From Patients
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged coverage is not care, health care in England, John Stossel
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Obama and single-payer health care: Monopolies are bad, except for government monopolies
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 … Continue reading
Obama’s chains that bind us
“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 … Continue reading
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Pueblo Chieftain editors oppose single-payer
See their editorial from last week. If you like it, do send them a kind word here. Surely such positive reenforcement will make it more likely that they write more pro-liberty pieces in the future. Similar Posts: Be your “brother’s … Continue reading
Krugman: Ignorant, or a Liar?
What’s easy about guaranteed health care for all? For one thing, we know that it’s economically feasible: every wealthy country except the United States already has some form of guaranteed health care. – Paul Krugman, August 10, 2008 Many pundits … Continue reading
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Tagged coverage is not care, Paul Krugman, rationing health care
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Stossel, Sick in America, Part 3
Continued from Part 2. Topics: Is “free” medical care in France, Germany, Britain, and Canada is really wonderful? When products are free at the point of service, demand goes through the roof. People pay by waiting. England: 18 week wait for hospital care, people lined … Continue reading
The Romance of Single-Payer Health Care
Pushing single-payer politically-controlled health care, Princeton health care economist Uwe Reinhardt says: “[Americans] act more and more like a people sharing a geography. You don’t have the ethos that goes with being a nation. In Canada, in Taiwan, they view health … Continue reading
Is health care like police protection?
“Profit is a perverse incentive for quality health care: imagine for-profit fire or police protection,” writes Michelle Swenson in support of single-payer health care. Louise at Colorado Health Insurance Insider has made the same comparison. Most notably, Michael Moore has … Continue reading
Czech medical care no longer “free”
From Sunday’s New York Times: In the Czech Republic, you can now see a doctor for about $1.85. A day in the hospital can verge on $4. This is not cause for celebration. For Czechs, who visit their doctors more … Continue reading
British National Health Service denies care
From the Daily Mail : How the NHS is letting my father die – by a top hospital consultant by Sarah Anderson Eye specialist Sarah Anderson works at York Hospital . Her father Ian has been refused Sutent, a new … Continue reading
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Tagged foreign, health care in England, rationing health care, single payer
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