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Stossel: Is Obamacare Stopping Businesses From Hiring?
Three successful businessmen came on my Fox Business show last week to explain how Obamacare is a reason that unemployment stays high. Its length and complexity make businessmen wary of expanding. Continue reading
Get a medical lab test w/o a doctor or insurance
With politicians trying to force everyone to pay for medical care through insurance, and pay for insurance through their employer, it’s nice to see a development where the patient can still be the customer. A couple of weeks ago Scripps … Continue reading
Rich retirees sponging off the poor via Medicare
A fine segment on Medicare from John Stossel’s recent special, You Can’t Even Talk About It. Some great moments: AARP representative claiming information technology will “have to” bring costs down, even if it won’t. He also correctly identifies that Medicare … Continue reading
Posted in Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP, PPC
Tagged fairness, health care video, John Stossel, Medicare
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420: Your right to use marijuana, medical or otherwise
Yes, drug prohibition is part of health care policy. Marijuana has proven medical benefits, but politicians and government thugs insist on imprisoning people for the peaceful act of growing a plant, or smoking its leaves, or selling it. So what … Continue reading
Posted in Policy - National, PPC
Tagged John Stossel, medications, right to health care
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Stossel – Sick in America, Part 6
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
UK Doctors Withholding Treatment Information From Patients
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
Posted in coverage isn't care, single payer
Tagged coverage is not care, health care in England, John Stossel
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Stossel, Sick in America, Part 4
Continued from Part 3. Topics: Is “greed” the problem? Should medicine be about profit? Michael Moore: “Get the profit out. Get the private health insurance company out of there.” Regina Herzlinger: Henry Ford cut the price of cars by half. … Continue reading
Posted in physicians & medical quality
Tagged health care video, John Stossel, Michael Moore
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Does the president “manage the economy”?
Apparently some people think that “managing the economy”* is a presidential responsibility. From Reuters/Zogby: McCain now has a 9-point edge, 49 percent to 40 percent, over Obama on the critical question of who would be the best manager of the economy … Continue reading
For-profit life guards
“People not profits.” You might hear this in discussions over health care and emergency situations. Ask these people to check out the success of Jeff Ellis and Associates, International Aquatic Safety and Risk Management Consultants. In July they hosted their … Continue reading