All Posts Tagged With: "socialized medicine"
Not with a Bang But a Whimper
Social change can be revolutionary, sudden, and swift. More commonly it moves at a glacier pace. Yet glaciers work great change, and great damage, given enough time.
3Nov2009 | Ross Levatter | 2 comments | ContinuedIn the Grip of Madness
“Thank God we had the federal government last week to bail out the private sector!” That is what a rather statist friend of mine declared a year ago as the economy tanked, almost gleeful that the financial crisis seemed to be proving how much we all need a massive federal establishment to both regulate and [...]
19Aug2009 | Lawrence W. Reed | 24 comments | ContinuedHealth Care Is Worse Here than Elsewhere? It Just Ain’t So!
In the November 13, 2007, Washington Post, columnist Eugene Robinson attacked former Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani’s claim that health care is better in the United States than in countries with socialized medicine. Robinson offers evidence that socialized medicine in various industrialized countries isn’t much worse, and is sometimes better, than U.S. health care, but [...]
1Mar2008 | David R. Henderson | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – January 2008
- The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care
by David Gratzer Reviewed by Jane M. Orient
- Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans
Edited by Terry L. Anderson, Bruce L. Benson, and Thomas F. Flanagan Reviewed by William L. Anderson, Jr.
- The Wal-Mart Revolution
by Richard Vedder and Wendell Cox Reviewed by George Leef - On the Wealth of Nations
by P.J. O’Rourke Reviewed by Raymond J. Keating
Ranking the U.S. Health-Care System
It is curious that the United States ranked below Europe in the World Health Organization’s 2000 World Health Report, which rated 191 countries’ medical systems. In his documentary Sicko, socialist Michael Moore makes hay out of the fact that the United States placed 37th, behind even Morocco, Cyprus, and Costa Rica. This ranking is used [...]
1Nov2007 | Jim Peron | 34 comments | ContinuedTowards a Liberal Utopia?
Edited by Philip Booth Reviewed by George C. Leef
1May2007 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedWe Need Medical Rationing? It Just Ain’t So!
In a recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times (“A Health Care Prescription that’s Hard to Swallow,” January 30, 2006), Henry Aaron, a well-known health economist at the Brookings Institution, made the following argument:
Spending on health care in the United States is rising as a percent of GDP and could go from its current 16 [...]
Scotland: The Bitter Taste of Independence
Contributing editor James Payne visited Scotland in the fall of 2003. His latest book, A History of Force (Lytton), was published in January.
For nearly a thousand years, the Scots have been struggling to gain independence from England—and a bloody struggle it has been, too, costing countless lives and sowing destruction in both countries. An act [...]
Politics Corrupts Money
George Leef is book review editor of The Freeman.
In September the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the heated battle over campaign finance reform legislation—the so-called Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, or BCRA. That law, passed by Congress and signed by President Bush in 2002, has been challenged by a wide array of parties, including such [...]
Nationalized Health Care Will Cut Costs? It Just Ain’t So!
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 provide [...]
1Jan2004 | Gene Callahan and Robert Murphy | 15 comments | ContinuedMedical 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 production [...]
The Price of Resistance
Sheldon Richman is editor of Ideas on Liberty.
Consider this remarkable sentence in the New York Times last winter: “Brandishing new data showing that the drug industry earns higher profits and pays lower taxes than most other industries, White House officials say drug companies may bring price controls on themselves if they continue to resist President [...]
Hospital Food and Socialized Medicine
Last September, a colleague of mine visited Manitoba, a province in central Canada. Electioneering was at a fever pitch, with just a few days left before voting for a variety of public offices. My friend was astonished to observe that the dominant issue was indeed hospital food. It had become a political hot potato, the candidates outdoing one another to express concern and promise action.
1Mar2000 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedSaving Money by Taking Lives
Two weeks ago, my 91-year-old mother-in-law died in a nursing home in Amsterdam. But although she had been suffering for nine months from a paralysis that prevented her from speaking and eventually from swallowing her food, she did not die a natural death from lack of nourishment. She died because the doctors decided that her [...]
1Feb2000 | Melvyn Krauss | 0 comments | ContinuedNational Health Care: Medicine in Germany 1918-1945
Marc S. Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D., a physician and anthropologist, directs the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C., which recently brought from Berlin the exhibition, “The Value of the Human Being: Medicine in Germany 1918-1945,” curated by Christian Pross and Götz Aly.
Today we are concerned about issues such as doctor-assisted suicide, abortion, the [...]
National Health Insurance: A Medical Disaster
Affordable health care has become one of the most important social issues of our time. Every news broadcast seems to have a special report on “America’s health care crisis” or a politician demanding “universal health insurance.” Evidence cited for the need for immediate and drastic government action includes:
High medical costs. The United States reportedly has [...]
The Price of Free Medicine
Mr. Brogan is a British journalist, author, advocate of individualism, and critic of socialism.
Britain’s experiment in socialized medicine should be of interest to those who wonder if the United States ought to try it.
Last year the British National Health Service paid one million pounds ($2,800,000) for bottles and other containers to be used [...]
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