Much of the reaction to Flea’s case at Kevin, MD, GruntDoc, and a variety of other blogs has focused on its implications for medical blogging or on the doctor’s poor judgment. But this sad tale also begs the following question: Would the episode have happened at all if Flea’s medical practice were in Texas?
It’s conceivable […]
Although its internal contradictions disqualify Barack Obama’s health care “plan” as a serious reform proposal, it has served to highlight the essential statism that animates the “universal health care” movement.
The advocates of “universal health care” have been generally disappointed by the plan, primarily because it doesn’t apply the heavy hand of government with sufficient […]
Walter Williams makes the case that the FDA’s incentives cause it to be too cautious about approving new drugs. In support of this proposition, he provides a quote from former FDA Commissioner Alexander Schmidt:
In all our FDA history, we are unable to find a single instance where a Congressional committee investigated the failure of FDA […]
A Canadian think tank has warned California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to avoid Canadian-style health care like the plague:
Canada is currently witnessing the failure of its own single-payer health insurance system. Faced with this example, why would Americans want to adopt such a system for themselves?
The “Governator” is visiting Canada for three days, but it is […]
Barack Obama is about to accomplish the health care equivalent of parting the Red Sea. According to AP, his new health care plan is going to accomplish what most rational people had heretofore thought impossible: expanding coverage while simultaneously reducing costs:
Obama said putting in place universal health coverage has been debated for decades, but the […]
It’s a matter of faith among advocates of socialized medicine that our neighbors to the north enjoy a health care system vastly superior to our own, and prominent among their talking points is the claim that Canada is somehow better at cost control than the U.S. The facts, however, don’t support that contention. In fact, […]
Like the proverbial broken clock, even the New York Times is occasionally right. Although the psychic pain of doing so must have been immense, the editors of the Gray Lady allowed Anthony DePalma to include a couple of actual facts in this piece on Sicko and the Cuban health care system. Particularly poignant are the passages relating […]
Considering that her name is more closely associated with the issue than anyone else running for president, Hillary Clinton’s reluctance to produce a coherent policy statement on health care reform has been very odd indeed. Here’s AP trying its best to air brush one of her recent circumlocutions on the subject:
The reason she hasn’t “set […]
Kevin, MD links to the latest salvo in the ongoing debate between David Hogberg and Matthew Holt over the quality of American health care. Because Holt is hopelessly outclassed in this contest, Hogberg easily mops up the floor with him, concluding with the following question:
Why do you want to give the U.S. a health care […]
The various “news” media are doing their best to create the impression that America’s nurses have embraced Michael Moore’s latest faux-documentary, with headlines like Nurses Welcome the Arrival of Sicko, and innocuous passages such as the following:
The film, [Rose Ann DeMoro] said, “should bolster the spirits of those dedicated to achieving fundamental reform and embarrass those […]
