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Thank U.S. medical care for extending Steve Jobs’ life
Had Jobs been under the care of the British National Health Service (NHS) or the Canadian Medicare system, he almost certainly would have died two years earlier. That would have been a major loss for the world, by anyone’s reckoning. Continue reading
How Obamacare will decrease health care access for the poor
“ObamaCare, by lowering the money price of care for almost everybody while doing nothing to change supply, will intensify non-price rationing and may actually make access to care more difficult for those with the least financial resources.” – John Goodman Continue reading
How Medicare vouchers could bypass health care rationing
The debate over which medical treatments Medicare would cover would vanish if instead of running a monopolistic health plan for seniors, government subsidized seniors’ purchase of the insurance plan of their choice. Continue reading
Donald Berwick won’t answer critics
Via Human Events, Donald Berwick, head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, “won’t, engage critics, grant interviews, or testify before Congress about his views on health-care rationing.” Similar Posts: Obama appoints Donald Berwick: Health Care Rationer-in-Chief Medicare head … Continue reading
The FDA, Avastin, and your life
Paul Hsieh, MD of Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine writes: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is on the verge of taking the highly unusual step of “decertifying” the cancer drug Avastin that it had previously approved. In addition … Continue reading
Medicare head Donald Berwick: rationing for thee, not for me
David Catron points out more ruling class elitism from Medicare & Medicaid head Donald Berwick: Berwick praised the heavy-handed rationing methods of Britain’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and said, “The decision is not whether or not … Continue reading
Obama appoints Donald Berwick: Health Care Rationer-in-Chief
From Grace-Marie Turner at National Review (July 7): President Obama is making a huge end-run around the American people with his recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick. “This recess appointment is an insult to the American people,” said Sen. John … Continue reading
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ObamaCare: Insurers Need Permission to Survive; Citizens, to Live
This is the provocative title of Dr. Paul Hsieh‘s recent article in Pajamas Media. It begins: Suppose our government declared that everyone had the “right” to a nice steak dinner. The government would require restaurants to sell $50 steak dinners … Continue reading
Would government bureaucrats deny your life-saving screening?
[The latest news looks like the House of Representatives will soon vote on the Senate health care bill or a "smaller bill." Make sure you tell your representative what you think via Congress.org] From Americans for Prosperity: Tracy Walsh survived … Continue reading
State governments ration “free” cancer screenings
When you empower government to provide “free” health care (paid by others through taxes), government gets to decide when it’s appropriate for you to receive it. Here’s yet another example from the Associated Press: …low-income women in at least 20 … Continue reading