All Posts Tagged With: "single-payer health care"
Rights Versus Wishes
Critics of the U.S. health-care system often suggest that we should adopt the single-payer universal systems of other countries. The serious problems encountered by those systems are increasingly documented and well known, such as the long waiting lists, restrictions on physician choice, and rationing in countries such as Canada, Italy, Greece, and the United Kingdom. [...]
1May2008 | Walter E. Williams | 0 comments | ContinuedSmart Economics: Commonsense Answers to 50 Questions about Government, Taxes, Business, and Households
By Michael L. Walden Reviewed by George C. Leef
1Jan2007 | George C. Leef | 2 comments | ContinuedAmerica 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 | ContinuedNationalized Health Care Will Cut Costs?
A group called Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) is promoting a government insurance plan to cover all Americans. In an August 13, 2003, Los Angeles Times report, the group claimed that their “single payer” plan would eliminate $200 billion a year in “administrative, marketing and other private-industry expenses.” This would save enough “to [...]
1Jan2004 | and Gene Callahan | 15 comments | ContinuedFree-Market Medicine
Larry Van Heerden is the author of website Free Market Medicine (www.MarketMed.org). The health-care system in the United States is beset by problems. After years of feeling shortchanged by managed care, doctors and hospitals are demanding and getting greater compensation; the elderly (under Medicare) have no prescription coverage; and many people find health insurance of [...]
1Aug2002 | Larry Van Heerden | 1 comment | 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 | Continued-
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