Tag Archives: Federal Health Board

How to protect yourself against ObamaCare

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Brian Schwartz

The Objective Standard has published Paul Hsieh, M.D.’s article about how to protect yourself from ObamaCare (HR 3590).  Here are the topic headings: To the extent possible, arrange to pay for your medical care directly rather than through an insurancepolicy. … Continue reading →

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Sign the Do No Harm petition on health care policy

Posted on April 7, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

If you care about affordable, accessible, and quality health care in the United States, please read and sign the Do No Harm Petition from the Galen Institute: The Hippocratic Oath Taken by All Doctors: “First, do no harm” Politicians, policymakers … Continue reading →

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Health care will overdose on “stimulus” package

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

Writes William Winkenwerder, Jr. and Grace-Marie Turner at National Review: The health-related provisions take a sharp turn toward greater government control over our health sector, without any hearings or serious debate in Congress and without telling the American people what … Continue reading →

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Let’s hope Obama-care doesn’t treat us “NICEly”

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

David Catron asks: …do we really deserve a health care system in which soulless bureaucrats arbitrarily put a dollar value on our lives, in which gravely ill patients are allowed to die because treatment costs too much? Do we really … Continue reading →

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Tom Daschle’s High Court of Health

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

In the Washington Times, Robert Moffit sums up the implications of Daschle’s proposed Federal Health Board: “Details kill.” That’s Tom Daschle, President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee for secretary of health and human services and the nation’s new “health-care czar,” explaining to … Continue reading →

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Model Federal Health Board on UK’s “NICE”?

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

Who decides? … In health care, the question is whether you, together with your doctor, will make your most personal and important health care decisions, or whether the government will make them for you. Government-run national health care systems are … Continue reading →

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Federal Health Board could extend government-controlled insurance

Posted on January 2, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

Tom Daschle’s proposed Federal Health Board could regulate health insurance companies such that they are effectively all selling the same government-controlled product.  Consider the following from Robert E. Moffit: While the health board decisions would initially affect enrollees in government … Continue reading →

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