Should we expect more of this if politicians expand government-run health programs? From CNN:
When you think of low-paying jobs, doctor doesn't usually come to mind.But with a 21% cut in Medicare payments slated to take effect later this month, physicians who say they are making an OK living ...
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 ...
Medical internist and Professor of Medicine Mark Siegel in the Wall Street Journal:
Here's something that has gotten lost in the drive to institute universal health insurance: Health insurance doesn't automatically lead to health care. And with more and more doctors dropping out of one insurance plan or another, especially government ...
Michael Cannon writes in the Washington Times that do avoid disastrous health care reform, we must oppose:
Government-run health care for the middle class (which Obama has proposed)
mandatory insurance
insurance price controls (e.g., community rating)
On point 1, Cannon writes:
Medicare is an unwise model for reform. When private health plans and providers try ...
I like Ted Kennedy's slogan "Medicare for all." It reminds voters that America already has a highly successful, popular single-payer program, albeit only for the elderly. — Paul Krugman, June 13 2005
How "highly successful" is Medicare? Consider the following story from ABC News:
The Houston Chronicle reported last week that more ...
