All Posts Tagged With: "medical spending"

Medical Consumers or Wards of the State?

Paul Krugman wants to know: “How did it become normal, or for that matter even acceptable, to refer to medical patients as ‘consumers’?” Let’s concede for argument’s sake there is something unattractive about viewing patients as consumers. Krugman writes, “Medical care, after all, is an area in which crucial decisions—life and death decisions—must be made. [...]

22Jun2011 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | Continued

America Needs Socialized Medicine?

Jane Orient, M.D. is executive director, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Paul Krugman attributes “America’s Failing Health” to the lack of Canadian-style socialized medicine and thus to the persistence of a free-enterprise sector in American medicine (New York Times, August 27). Because “interest groups are too powerful, and the antigovernment propaganda of the right [...]

1Feb2005 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 1 comment | Continued

Medical Technology and the State

So-called public-policy experts often take the many advances in modern technology for granted. They assume that government regulations and controls merely redistribute the fruits of progress without affecting the nature and extent of technological development itself. But that is wrong. Whenever the government involves itself in the financing and distribution of goods and services, the [...]

1May2002 | Gary M. Pecquet | 1 comment | Continued

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