Last week, when I questioned Ron Paul’s specious claim not to have accepted Medicare during his years as a practicing obstetrician, I was accused by several commenters of being in the pay of that arch fiend, Rudy Giuliani. This was odd coming from professed libertarians, because Giuliani is a much more credible advocate of free […]
Jonathan Cohn is one of the few single-payer advocates for whom I actually have some respect. I think his support of government-run health care is misguided, but he knows the system and is obviously a thoughtful person. So, I was surprised to find him repeating an utterly baseless canard about the way hospitals behave toward the uninsured:
It was during the […]
Michael Franc of the Heritage Foundation points out that the SCHIP legislation now being debated in Congress bears an uncanny resemblance to a fallback strategy outlined by Hillary Clinton’s ill-fated health care task force:
“Under this approach,” the task force authors explained, “health care reform is phased in by population [group],” beginning with “the most vulnerable […]
The National Review of Medicine highlights the economic illiteracy that permeates Canada’s health care bureaucracy. Last year, the provincial government of New Brunswick decided that physicians with full practices needed an incentive to take on new patients. However, like all bureaucrats trying to outsmart the market, they implemented a program whose unintended consequences outweighed any […]
I have touched previously on the role of piety in the zombie-like consistency with which “progressives” adhere to the cause of socialized medicine, but it occurs to me that there is more to the story. Having considered the matter further, I think social pretension is also an important factor.
If one observes how “the reality-based community,” […]
The CDC’s report on ER overcrowding is out, and the news isn’t good. ED visits are up 20 percent over the last ten years and the number of EDs actually available to treat these patients has dropped by 9% during the same period. What could be causing this? GruntDoc has a nice, succinct theory:
If you […]
I have to confess that, as a general rule, I’m not crazy about nurse bloggers. Unlike the flesh-and-blood nurses I have worked with, they are too often … well … dull. So, I was pleasantly surprised when I followed a link from Kevin, MD to Crass-Pollination.
Nurse K’s “let’s cut through the BS” writing style is […]
NCPA has put up a new site, The Michael Moore Chronicles, that pulls together some of the best commentary out there on the porcine provocateur, SiCKO, and socialized medicine in general. Included are reviews and a film or two from my accomplices friends at FreeMarketCure. It’s well worth a visit.
Walter Williams, with his usual clarity, asks a question that every voter should consider when weighing the relative merits of socialized medicine and free market health care:
How would you like the people who run the motor vehicles department, the government education system, foreign intelligence and other government agencies to also run our health care system?
When the […]
This week, under the false colors of “health care for the children,” the Democrats in Congress are taking America on a perilous voyage toward the rocky shoals of socialized medicine. The SCHIP bill’s main features are summarized by the WSJ Health Blog, and here are its most pernicious features:
Funding for privatized Medicare plans, known as Medicare […]
