Boston Globe Columnist Jeff Jacoby points out an what President Obama said in a 2009 address:
I don’t believe that government can or should run health care.
Yet, at a 2008 town hall meeting in New Mexico, Senator Obama said:
If I were designing a system from scratch, I would probably go ...
From the Independent (UK):
Poor standards of care at an accident and emergency unit in one of the country's flagship hospitals may have contributed to the unnecessary deaths of over 400 patients, an official NHS investigation has concluded. Dirty equipment and an absence of leadership contributed to a death rate almost ...
"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.
(via FIRM)
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 ...
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 ...
He would, suggests Charles Hooper at Forbes.com. Some selections:
Say a biotech company is developing a new drug for breast cancer. My consulting firm, Objective Insights, looks at the financial value of the project. If the expected value--probability-adjusted value--of the project is negative, we suggest discontinuing development. Often, millions of dollars ...
On buying health insurance directly from an insurance company instead of through one's employer, ABC News Medical Editor Dr. Tim Johnson states:
The idea that individuals are going to have enough knowledge and enough savvy and enough insight and, frankly, enough guts to make choices all by themselves is pretty much ...
Paul Hsieh's post about this disturbing facet of governement-controlled medicine won this week's Anti-Socialized Medicine Blog Post Contest by Right-Wing News and the David All Group. Congratulations, Paul! Paula Hall had the runner-up post: Pay Doctors, Don't Enslave Them, which also worth reading. Also, thank you to RWN for linking to ...
Continued from Part 2.
Topics:
Is "free" medical care in France, Germany, Britain, and Canada is really wonderful?
When products are free at the point of service, demand goes through the roof. People pay by waiting.
England: 18 week wait for hospital care, people lined about around the block for dental care, or pull teeth themselves. "Don't wash the sheets, just ...
John Goodman summarizes the latest study in The Lancet:
Cancer survival varies widely across the developed world and within the United States. However, in almost every category Americans survive cancer at higher rates than patients in other developed countries. American cancer patients have a higher survival rate for every major form ...
