"Patients with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under an NHS scheme to help end their lives, leading doctors have warned."
Read "Sentenced to death on the NHS" in the Telegraph.
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In the Wall Street Journal Betsy McCaughey has written about Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel's views on reducing and determining patients' medical care. The Journal refers to Dr. Emanuel as "Obama's Rationer-in-Chief." His official positions are as health-policy adviser at the Office of Management and Budget and a member of the ...
From Martin Feldstein in the Wall Street Journal:
Although administration officials are eager to deny it, rationing health care is central to President Barack Obama's health plan. The Obama strategy is to reduce health costs by rationing the services that we and future generations of patients will receive.
The White House Council ...
In just 90 seconds this new health reform video highlights the upside-down priorities of Oregon's Medicaid system. Lobbying groups have used the political process to push coverage for special-interest causes. This video is based on research Linda Gorman, Director of the Health Policy Center at the the Independence Institute. Read ...
Just in case you needed a reminder that having coverage does not mean getting the care you need, here's one from the Daily Telegraph:
The Government’s drug rationing watchdog says “therapeutic” injections of steroids, such as cortisone, which are used to reduce inflammation, should no longer be offered to patients suffering ...
In defense of government rationing of medical care, philosopher Peter Singer writes:
The task of health care bureaucrats is then to get the best value for the resources they have been allocated. It is the familiar comparative exercise of getting the most bang for your buck.
Indeed. Bureaucrats will get the best ...
Here's a humorous (but scary) look at how government rationing of health care would look in the United States:
For examples of it in Canada and Britain, Cal Thomas reviews a few recent headlines:
Here is what Britons face: "Kidney Cancer Patients Denied Life-saving Drugs by NHS Rationing Body NICE" (Daily Mail ...
From Unfinished business, Report Card on Wait Times in Canada, published by the Wait Time Alliance:
the median wait time for patients requiring an inpatient bed-that is, from the time the patient presented at the ED [emergency department] to the time they were admitted to an inpatient bed-was 19 hours (average ...
Bottom line: The province of British Columbia claims that there is constitutional right to health care. Yet, it's illegal to pay a doctor for services for medical care that's covered by the government plan. But why would you do that? Maybe if you want the care now, instead of waiting ...
