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. - Health savings accounts- concierge medicine- medical tourismAssume full responsibility for ...
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 and public officials should take the same oath:
DO NO HARM TO AMERICA'S ...
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 the changes would mean for their personal health care. This is ...
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 deserve to be treated the ...
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 the Associated Press why national health reform has failed in the ...
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 all about limiting choices. For example, nearly all national health care ...
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 health programs, Senator Daschle says that Congress "...could, for example, link ...