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 to sparking concerns that this is another step towards medical rationing, ...
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 we will ration care; the decision is whether ...
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 Barrasso (R., Wyo.), a physician and leading Berwick opponent. ...
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 to all comers. But to keep ...
[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 her fight with breast cancer because of early detection. The testing ...
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 states are being turned away or put on long waiting lists ...
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 ...
The Independence Institute has two new videos in its series on Obama's health care policy proposals (as proposed by Congressional Democrats). These are two testimonials from Canadian patients who suffered while waiting months and years for medical treatment. Is this what awaits patients in the U.S.? After all, advocates of ...
If you want a taste of what more politically-controlled medicine would look like, check out this story from MSNBC about how Wall Street executives have access while others wait.
The Wall Street Journal also reports:
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged health officials around the country Thursday ...
The Center for Medicine in the Public Interest made a clever and to-the-point video showing how a "public option" would play out:
(Via FIRM, State House Call)
