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 ...
From the New York Times:
Three years ago, Massachusetts enacted perhaps the boldest state health care experiment in American history, bringing near-universal coverage to the commonwealth with Paul Revere speed. ...
...government and industry officials agree that the plan will not be sustainable over the next 5 to 10 years if they ...
When politicians decide how to spend taxpayers' money on health care, they spend it on what is most politically popular. Linda Gorman writes that this means less emphasis on "procedures to save lives in immediate danger" and more "preventive care for the healthy and treatment of diseases with active political ...
Who decides? ...
In health care, the question is whether you, together with your doctor, will make your most personal and important health care decisions, or whether the government will make them for you. Government-run national health care systems are all about limiting choices. For example, nearly all national health care ...
What’s easy about guaranteed health care for all? For one thing, we know that it’s economically feasible: every wealthy country except the United States already has some form of guaranteed health care. - Paul Krugman, August 10, 2008
Many pundits see red at the words "single-payer system." They think it means ...
From the Daily Mail :
How the NHS is letting my father die - by a top hospital consultant
by Sarah Anderson
Eye specialist Sarah Anderson works at York Hospital . Her father Ian has been refused Sutent, a new cancer drug, which could provide the only real chance of prolonging his life. ...
Last week the Globe and Mail reported that:
More than 100 Canadian women with high-risk pregnancies have been sent to United States hospitals over the past year – in what a doctors' group attributes to the lack of a national birthing plan.
The problem has peaked, with British Columbia and Ontario each ...
What good is having medical insurance if you cannot get medical care? Peddlers of "universal health care" -- from Hillary, Obama, to Colorado congressional candidate Jared Polis -- don't get this.
"Universal health care" is false advertising for politically-controlled medicine, with government as the "single-payer" monopolistic insurer. But having coverage does ...
