How to protect yourself against ObamaCare

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

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 ...

Sign the Do No Harm petition on health care policy

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

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 ...

Health care will overdose on “stimulus” package

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

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 ...

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

Monday, January 26th, 2009

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 ...

Tom Daschle’s High Court of Health

Friday, January 16th, 2009

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 ...

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

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

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 ...

Federal Health Board could extend government-controlled insurance

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

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 ...