No equal access with Germany’s “universal” health care

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

Many people support government-controlled health care because they think it will provide everyone with equal access to medical treatment, regardless of their ability to pay. Ronald Bachman of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation recently visited Germany with other health care policy wonks from the U.S. to learn about the health ...

Medicare’s “global budget” & bureaucratic medical decisions

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

From the Wall Street Journal: Democrats are quietly attempting to impose a "global budget" on Medicare, with radical implications for U.S. medicine. ... If Democrats impose such a commission nationwide, it would constitute a radical change in U.S. health care. The reason that physician discretion—not Washington's cost-minded judgments—is at the core of ...