Friday, September 12th, 2008
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 ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
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 care as the cement that makes a nation out of a ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Addition to Tuesday's post on medical care in the Czech Republic:
An intriguing part of Sunday's New York Times article about medical care in the Czech Republic was a quote by Harvard's Marc J. Roberts, included in the excerpt below:
But many Czechs see it as a matter of principle that health ...
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