The NHS provides so many object lessons in how not to run a health care system that I sometimes wonder if the people who run it are actually moles planted by some free-market think tank. The latest example of NHS inefficiency, as reported by the BBC, involves basic medical hygiene:
A quarter of the trusts report […]
According to Senator Tom Coburn, the CDC is a textbook example of a government health bureaucracy that has grown larger and larger while becoming less and less effective. Per the Washington Times:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wastes millions of dollars on “failed prevention efforts, international junkets and lavish facilities,” a Republican senator says in […]
Talleyrand is credited with originating the phrase, “It was worse than a crime, it was a blunder.” One could hardly find a more apt expression to describe the MA marketing strategies of Humana, United Healthcare, et al. As I pointed out last March, this scandal is very real. Now, seven companies have been forced to […]
Like all advocates of “universal health care,” Michael Moore wants everyone to have free health care. So, the fact that millions are now watching Sicko gratis constitutes an exquisitely sweet expression of poetic justice. Savor the profoundly ironic comment of the film’s distributor:
Weinstein Co. spokeswoman Sarah Rothman said in a statement: “We are responding aggressively […]
This produced a coffee-spewing LOL when I saw it. John Edwards wants to help with malpractice reform? Well …. ah …. only Nixon could go to China, right?
Some blawgs, like TortsProf are pretty sanguine about Edwards new religion. Other law bloggers, like Eric Turkewitz, are not amused.
I have to go clean my monitor off […]
The Edwards campaign has evidently concluded that, in order to compete with Hillary, its candidate needs to be very aggressive in promoting health care initiatives. Thus, John Edwards has unveiled another feature of his health care plan. This time, he proposes overhauling the drug patent process:
Edwards’ plan would offer cash payments in place of long-term […]
Stuart Browning at On the Fence Films has posted a new video, The Lemon, that outs single-payer as an outmoded idea that deserves to go on the ash-heap of history along with the Soviet bloc. It would be nice if the advocates of government-run health care would watch it and actually think about it. Fat chance.
The health care plan presented by the John Edwards presidential campaign has received a good deal of approbation from the advocates of government-run health care. Paul Krugman, for example, advises that the Edwards plan “gets it right.” But we don’t have to wait for Edwards to to become President to see him change health care. […]
Today, a group of California legislators provided Michael Moore with yet another venue in which to tell his furious tale. Meanwhile, Michael Cannon links to a Toronto Star piece in which Moore receives considerably less friendly treatment by Canadian journalists:
We Canucks were taking issue with the large liberties Sicko takes with the facts … Sicko […]
Over the weekend, the citizens of Motor City heard the distant rumble of a ravenous dragon tramping toward their city. Clinton, speaking to a UAW meeting on Saturday, announced that she has a ‘win-win’ proposal for the U.S. auto industry:
U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday offered a double-barreled campaign message for the struggling U.S. auto […]
