The advocates of single-payer health care become very testy when it is equated with socialized medicine. Single-payer is much different from socialized medicine, they tell us impatiently, because the former does not involve actual ownership of hospitals or employment of clinicians. Under a single-payer system, we are told, the government only controls the money. GruntDoc […]
Michelle Malkin has posted a scary video showing what life can be like for patients trapped in the world of single-payer health care as it is practiced in Canada. As I point out here, the people who have actually experienced Canadian health care are MUCH less enthusiastic about it than people who have merely read […]
The Health Affairs blog has posted a number of papers that attempt to explain the failure of the original Clinton attempt at health care reform. Although each takes its own route through the history of the initiative, they all manage to arrive at the same conclusion: the problem was the public. Daniel Yankelovich, for example, […]
Sigh … When I saw that Bush had visited Walter Reed, I cringed because I knew it would reignite the ignis fatuus of the fever swamps. And, right on cue, firedoglake is producing the predictable gaseous emissions. Here’s a sample:
Commander Codpiece, indeed. It’s been how long since this scandal broke wide open? Why didn’t you […]
If ever a statistic deserved to be categorized as species of prevarication, it is the oft-repeated datum, “47 million uninsured.” This stat, recently revised down to 44.8 million by the U.S. Census Bureau, is cited by media outlets of the Left and Right with equal credulity. But, as the NCPA points out, it significantly overstates […]
David Harlow asks an interesting question about the increasing emphasis placed on health care reform by the various presidential candidates:
This is one of those classic chicken-and-egg questions: Are the candidates talking health care because that’s what people want to hear (chicken), or do people say they’re concerned about health care because Hillary, John, Barack, […]
Unlike Paul Krugman, whose ideology has so vitiated his judgment as an economist that he actually endorsed the fraudulent Edwards health care plan, William F. Buckley sees through the swindle:
Mr. Edwards speaks grandly about health coverage for 47 million people who do not now have it. But unless there is a diminution in the cost […]
Since last weekend, when Hillary Clinton descended on Des Moines to dish up a few platitudes about health care, a variety of sycophants masquerading as journalists have extolled her virtues as the savior of American health care. Other candidates had things to say on the subject, but they were no match for “the smartest woman […]
There has been a lot of intelligent commentary during the past week on the pros and cons of single-payer health care, particularly from the Economist’s View, Tim Worstall, and Health Care Economist. One comment from the latter raises an important issue that doesn’t get enough play.
Is having government bureaucrats making medical allocation decisions worse than […]
This is the funniest and most insightful response I’ve seen to Her Majesty’s announcement that we WILL have universal health care when she’s president:
To anyone stupid enough to fall for Hillary’s ‘Universal Health Care Plan’ bullshit, let me point out to you what we’ll be looking at if we were to adopt that system, take […]
