From a former senior official at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, published last week in the Wall Street Journal:
Accumulating medical data shows that Medicaid recipients' poor health outcomes aren't just a function of their underlying medical problems, but a more direct consequence of the program's shortcomings. Take the ...
Despite all the wishful thinking in the world, politicians cannot guarantee that people get required medical care by making it a crime for them not to have insurance (as defined by politicians.) From last week's Boston Globe:
The wait to see primary care doctors in Massachusetts has grown to as long ...
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Competition has begun to improve America's health care. Example, laser eye surgeons, cosmetic surgeons. Costs decreases, quality increases. Patients pay doctors directly.
Medical clinics staffed by nurse practioners. Inexpensive routine care. E.g., RediClinic, MinuteClinic.
Doctors who do not accept insurance. E.g., Patmos EmergiClinic. Uninsured patients save money, providers keep costs ...
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 ...
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 see red at the words "single-payer system." They think it means ...
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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 about around the block for dental care, or pull teeth themselves. "Don't wash the sheets, just ...
Last week the Globe and Mail reported that:
More than 100 Canadian women with high-risk pregnancies have been sent to United States hospitals over the past year – in what a doctors' group attributes to the lack of a national birthing plan.
The problem has peaked, with British Columbia and Ontario each ...
What good is having medical insurance if you cannot get medical care? Peddlers of "universal health care" -- from Hillary, Obama, to Colorado congressional candidate Jared Polis -- don't get this.
"Universal health care" is false advertising for politically-controlled medicine, with government as the "single-payer" monopolistic insurer. But having coverage does ...
