All Posts Tagged With: "socialized medicine"
Guess Who Paved the Road to Socialized Medicine?
Nearly one year ago, Congress passed and President Clinton signed into law the largest expansion of government health care since 1965, when Medicaid and Medicare were created. This new federally funded program, titled “State Children’s Health Insurance Program” (SCHIP), gives states the authority to enlarge government health insurance programs for children, including medical services in [...]
1Jul1998 | Sue A. Blevins | 4 comments | ContinuedLoved to Death: America’s Unresolved Health-Care Crisis
Dr. Hurd is a psychologist/author residing in Maryland. The Canadian health-care system of single-payer, socialized insurance is in trouble. Yet Congress and the president continue to push the American system in the same direction. As Canada’s national government slashes spending on medical care in order to reduce the deficit, local provinces are reducing medical staff. [...]
1Nov1997 | Michael J. Hurd | 1 comment | ContinuedYour Doctor Is Not In: Healthy Skepticism About National Health Care
Even without Clintonian socialism, the private practice of medicine, in which the individual doctor is responsible to the individual patient, is on its last legs. Francis A. Davis, M.D. founder and publisher of Private Practice, recently shut down his 25-year-old magazine with the lament that the battle is lost. But I predict that Dr. Davis, [...]
1Jan1995 | Ron Paul M.D. | 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, [...]
1Nov1993 | Marc S. Micozzi M.D. | 51 comments | ContinuedNational 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 [...]
1Oct1992 | Jarret B. Wollstein | 6 comments | ContinuedThe 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 [...]
1Jun1956 | Colm Brogan | 0 comments | ContinuedIs There Really a Doctor Shortage?
Dr. Leitch, a physician and surgeon, is a member of the editorial staff of “Northwest Medicine” and an active opponent of socialized medicine. . . . and if so, could federal funds cure it? How do we get our doctors? Is there a competitive, free market, ideal method of obtaining a supply of doctors in [...]
1May1956 | Gordon B. Leitch M.D | 0 comments | Continued-
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