Tag Archives: coverage is not care

Medicaid: poor care, rampant fraud

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

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, … Continue reading →

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Coverage isn’t care in Massachusetts

Posted on October 3, 2008 by Brian Schwartz

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 … Continue reading →

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Stossel – Sick in America, Part 6

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Brian Schwartz

Continued from Part 5. Topics: 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 … Continue reading →

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UK Doctors Withholding Treatment Information From Patients

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Brian Schwartz

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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Krugman: Ignorant, or a Liar?

Posted on August 12, 2008 by Brian Schwartz

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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Stossel, Sick in America, Part 3

Posted on August 8, 2008 by Brian Schwartz

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 →

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Pregnant in Canada? Go the U.S.

Posted on May 14, 2008 by Brian Schwartz

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 … Continue reading →

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“Universal” Health Care Kills

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Brian Schwartz

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, … Continue reading →

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