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 ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
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 ...
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
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 ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
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 ...
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