All Posts Tagged With: "health care reform"
A Cornucopia of Healthcare Fallacies
The effort to reinvent medical care is so full of fallacies and bad logic that it would take volumes to properly expose them. Nevertheless, in this short space, let’s take a crack at some of the problems. To begin, the “reformers” want to compel insurers to cover people who are already sick for the same [...]
24Jul2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy the Rush on Health Care?
Why is Obama so eager to have his healthcare “reform” voted on before members of Congress go home for their August recess? Because this advocate of “representative government,” like many others, is a big fraud. He wants the vote to occur before the members go home and get an earful from their “constituents” about how [...]
19Jul2009 | Sheldon Richman | 3 comments | ContinuedHealthcare Arrogance
The conceit of a handful of congressmen is truly astounding. They actually think they know enough to design a medical marketplace. Do they have any idea what they are up to, any idea of the havoc they will wreak, the hardship they will inflict?Anyone interested in freedom should read as much as they can about [...]
17Jul2009 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedMore Demagogery in the Healthcare Debate
An argument floating around–I’ve heard Barack Obama and at least one journalist use it–says that opposition to the so-called public option for medical insurance betrays a lack of confidence in private enterprise. After all, if government is so inefficient, surely private insurance companies will beat it in the marketplace.Sheer demagoguery. Does it mean nothing that [...]
17Jul2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedObama’s Impossible Healthcare Reform Promises
In his drive to “reform” health care — that is, redesign 18 percent of the U.S. economy — Barack Obama is clearly terrified that his mission will crash and burn if people think it will cost them their freedom of choice in doctors and insurance. He is surely convinced that this is what scuttled the [...]
19Jun2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedKarl Rove on Health Care Reform and the Public Option
I meant to blog about this last week but I’m just now getting around to it. I understand the Karl Rove is a political consultant, and as such he is beholden to polling and focus grouping and highly prone to framing, triangulating, and outright prevaricating. But even judging him by the low standards of a [...]
16Jun2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 8 comments | ContinuedMedical Misunderstanding
Economic illiteracy will be hazardous to your health. Barack Obama says, “[T]he most significant driver — by far — of our long-term debt and our long-term deficits is ever-escalating health care costs. If we don’t reform how health care is delivered in this country, then we are not going to be able to get a handle [...]
22May2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Price of Free Health Care
Many health-reform proposals in the United States are modeled on the Canadian healthcare system. The usual claim is that a program similar to the one in Canada would provide all Americans access to the finest medical services while managing to be less expensive than the status quo. Unfortunately, these wonderful visions of socialized health care [...]
1May2005 | Nadeem Esmail | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Poverty of Regulation
Ronald Reagan famously asked voters during the 1980 presidential campaign, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” A similar test can be applied to government regulation: Has it left us safer and healthier than we would have been without it? Just like the voters in 1980, we can answer that question with [...]
1Dec1999 | Michael J. Catanzaro | 3 comments | ContinuedMedical Warrior
Conrad F. Meier is health policy adviser for The Heartland Institute and assistant in research at the Center for Advanced Social Research at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Warning! If you have high blood pressure, consult your physician before reading Medical Warrior. Dr. Miguel Faria writes with such fervor and conviction about the looming dangers of [...]
1Dec1998 | Conrad F. Meier | 0 comments | ContinuedLet’s Not Throw American Medicine into Boston Harbor
Jane Orient, M.D., is the executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and a member of the FEE Board of Trustees. She is the author of Your Doctor Is Not In: Healthy Skepticism About National Health Care and a new novel about where the money is in medicine, Sutton’s Law. The ongoing [...]
1Jul1998 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 0 comments | ContinuedHave Doctors Forsaken Their Ethics?
Dr. Singer practices medicine in Phoenix, Arizona. Govemment health-care reform is like Frankenstein’s Monster: dead, it seems, but threatening to arise from the grave, regenerated by countless, often contradictory parts. Like the Monster’s creator, our politicians and health-care bureaucrats—eager to create something—often give short shrift to ethical considerations. This failing is the focus of my [...]
1Apr1995 | Jeffrey A. Singer | 2 comments | Continued-
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