How U.S. health care is already similar to Europe’s

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Shikha Dalmia of the Reason Foundation has written about this in a recent Forbes column, The Myth Of Free Market Health Care In America.  Some excerpts: But apart from England, most European countries have a public-private blend, not unlike what we have in the U.S. The major difference between America and Europe ...

The unfree market in health care

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." Remember this line from The Usual Suspects?  It surely applies to health care reform. As the Cato Institute's Michael Cannon  has written: To paraphrase Keyser Söze, the greatest trick that supporters of socialized medicine ever played was to ...

The U.S. already has socialized medicine

Friday, November 7th, 2008

There are several ways to respond to people who advocate socialized medicine or single-payer health care in the United States.  You can start at fundamentals by point out that health care is not a right, and that governmnt-controlled health care violates the rights of physicians and patients.  You can point out ...

Dude, what free market?

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

The big lie behind pushing politician-controlled health care is: that the United States has a free-market in health care, and that it's to blame for costs of medical care and insurance being so hight. AFL-CIO executives John Sweeney and Mike Cerbo perpetuate this in a commentary in Thursday's Denver ...