A new Cato Institute policy analysis by Michael Cannon suggests that instead of government forcing taxpayers to fund research on the best treatment for various medical conditions, legislatures should remove controls that discourage consumers from seeking out such information:
President Barack Obama, former U.S. Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, and others ...
Amanda Carpenter suggests that it will:
Universal healthcare is going to get a big boost from the $825 billion stimulus bill if it passes in current form.
$600 million is allocated on page 50 of the bill to double funding to pay doctors and nurses employed by the National Health Services Corps. ...
David Catron asks:
...do we really deserve a health care system in which soulless bureaucrats arbitrarily put a dollar value on our lives, in which gravely ill patients are allowed to die because treatment costs too much? Do we really deserve to be treated the ...
In the Washington Times, Robert Moffit sums up the implications of Daschle's proposed Federal Health Board:
"Details kill." That's Tom Daschle, President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of health and human services and the nation's new "health-care czar," explaining to the Associated Press why national health reform has failed in the ...
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 ...
Tom Daschle's proposed Federal Health Board could regulate health insurance companies such that they are effectively all selling the same government-controlled product. Consider the following from Robert E. Moffit:
While the health board decisions would initially affect enrollees in government health programs, Senator Daschle says that Congress "...could, for example, link ...
Last year's Senate Bill 217's (enacted in June '08) would have "value benefit plans" that would "encourage the use of a pay-for-performance system for reimbursing health care providers, where appropriate." Barack Obama's health care czar Tom Daschle has written that "one way for Washington to spark improvement would be to ...
The AP reports that "former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has accepted President-elect Barack Obama's offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services." Check out Michael Cannon's comments on Daschle's health care reform proposals:
Daschle and others propose that Congress create a “federal health board” to manage the health care ...
