All Posts Tagged With: "socialized medicine"
National Health Care Passes 219-212
“House Democrats approved a far-reaching overhaul of the nation’s health system on Sunday, voting over unanimous Republican opposition to provide medical coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans after an epic political battle that could define the differences between the parties for years.” (New York Times, Monday) That’s all folks. FEE Timely Classic: “National [...]
22Mar2010 | Mike Van Winkle | 1 comment | ContinuedObamacare and the Legacy of Progressivism
In the end, the bill will be whatever the White House wants it to be. The ultimate legacy of “Progressivism” is that political debate no longer matters.
23Dec2009 | William L. Anderson | 4 comments | ContinuedDemocrats End Debate on Health Care
“The Democratic-controlled Senate, voting 60-40, swept aside Republican objections and moved to close off debate on health overhaul legislation, marking a milestone moment for President Barack Obama’s most pressing domestic initiative. “All 58 Democrats and two independents voted to approve the first — and most crucial — of three motions needed to break off action, [...]
21Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedPublic Support for Healthcare Reform Drops Even More
“A bare majority of Americans still believe government action is needed to control runaway health-care costs and expand coverage to the roughly 46 million people without insurance. But after a year of exhortation by President Obama and Democratic leaders and a high-octane national debate, there is minimal public enthusiasm for the kind of comprehensive changes [...]
16Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedHoward Dean: “Kill the Bill”
“This is essentially the collapse of health care reform in the United States Senate. And, honestly, the best thing to do right now is kill the Senate bill and go back to the House and start the reconciliation process, where you only need 51 votes and it would be a much simpler bill.” (Vermont Public [...]
16Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedSenate Push on Health Care Falling Short
“Senate Democratic leaders appeared poised Monday night to abandon efforts to create a government-run insurance safety net in their push for health-care reform, as they attempted to close ranks around a bill they hoped would win the backing of all 60 members of their caucus … Democratic negotiators had already disappointed liberal lawmakers by jettisoning [...]
15Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedSenate Compromise Scares Medical Professionals
“Industry groups representing doctors and hospitals attacked one of the alternatives in the deal, designed to take the place of a proposed government-run insurance program, in the hours after Senate leaders announced it Tuesday night. They argued that a plan by liberal Democrats to allow uninsured individuals as young as 55 to buy into Medicare [...]
10Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedObama Visits Congress, Pushes Health Care
“After working through the weekend, the Senate will reconvene Monday for an eighth day of debate and potentially the first controversial amendment, addressing the issue of abortion coverage. After the abortion vote, expected Monday or Tuesday, the Senate could tackle another high-profile amendment: a bipartisan bid to allow the importation of prescription drugs from Canada [...]
7Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedNot 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 | 37 comments | ContinuedWill the “Public Option” Be a Cutthroat Competitor?
President Obama says he doesn’t want the government to run health care. He just wants a “public option” to keep the private insurers “honest.” Imagine that: A government bureaucracy keeping someone else honest. Physician, heal thyself!But would a public option keep insurers honest? People who dislike markets often spin horrifying scenarios about big companies engaging [...]
12Jun2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedBeware Politicians’ Sweet-Talk on Healthcare Reform
President Obama had sugared words for those concerned that government healthcare “reform” will violate freedom of choice. He insisted that people happy with their insurance and their doctor will be free to stick with them.What he didn’t say is what those people should do when the government’s tax-subsidized “public option” insurance program and price controls [...]
11Jun2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 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 | ContinuedTGIF: Medical Misunderstanding
Economic illiteracy will be hazardous to your health. The rest of TGIF is here.
22May2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedBye Bye, Daschle
Former Sen. Tom Daschle is gone. He’s taken himself out of nomination as Obama’s health and human services secretary because of his failure to pay taxes on perks he “earned” as a consultant providing corporations access to the government power he once held. He was to be the architect of the brave new medical system [...]
3Feb2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedRights 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 | ContinuedHealth Care Is Worse Here than Elsewhere?
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 | Continued-
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