I have already dealt with Ron Paul’s disingenuous Libertarian pose here and here, but frequent commenter Matt inadvertently reminded me of another of the good doctor’s phony claims that I have neglected to debunk.
Dr. Paul has often boasted, in support of his ostensible libertarianism, that he refused to accept Medicare when he practiced medicine. […]
The geniuses who run Great Britain’s system of socialized medicine have proposed using NHS resources to buy iPods and television sets for crackheads, according to the TimesOnline:
Drug addicts are to be offered gift vouchers and prizes on the National Health Service under plans by the government’s medicine watchdog to encourage them to stay clean.
Considering that […]
The Associated Press has finally noticed one of the most significant and dangerous trends in health care: physician shortages in rural America. Unfortunately, the reporter assigned to the story is bent on finding an explanation for this phenomenon among the usual tendentious journalistic tropes:
A national shortage of doctors is hitting poor places the hardest, and efforts […]
Among Michael Moore’s many contemptible characteristics is his willingness to capitalize on the misery of ordinary people. His disgraceful exploitation of Lila Limbscomb in Fahrenheit 9-11 is probably the most egregious example, but his shameless use of three 9-11 responders in SiCKO was nearly as bad.
The one redeeming feature of Moore’s Cuban odyssey was that […]
Eric Novack links to yet another nail in the coffin of that bogus bankruptcy study perpetrated by David Himmelstein. He calls Todd Zywicki’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee a “must read” for the following people:
Those who remember the endless headlines of “50% of All Bankruptcies Due to Medical Debt”, and particularly for those who […]
Kevin, MD links to a post at Movin’ Meat, in which Shadowfax provides a (reasonably accurate) description of the perverse reimbursement system facing ER physicians, including the following breakdown of payment rates by payer:
Bill Gates (cash customer): $474
Commercial insurance: $220-400
Medicare: $161
Medicaid: $90
Typical “cash customer” (aka uninsured) $25
Unfortunately, he fails to absorb the blindingly obvious implications […]
David Hogberg and Paul Gessing reiterate, in the American Spectator, what should by now be obvious to the meanest intelligence: SCHIP is “socialized medicine on the installment plan.”
Strategically, it would seem that the Democrats are trying to achieve universal, government-run health insurance by making more and more Americans “children.”
This succinctly worded passage not only captures […]
Michael Moore isn’t the only filmmaker interested in health care. Stuart Browning, as FrontPageMagazine points out, provides a “much-needed corrective.”
Particularly compelling are the films on Canada’s health care system. Posted on Browning’s website, they provide a powerful counterpoint to the reverential treatment that the Canadian system receives in Moore’s movie.
But Browning is no mere grumbler about Canadian […]
After all the free publicity, sycophantic interviews, obsequious op-ed pieces, and general media acclaim, Michael Moore’s health care schlockumentary is enduring a surprisingly anemic box office:
Sicko is bombing — financially and politically. After three weeks in wide release, it has managed to scrape together just $15.8 million in box office receipts. For most documentaries, that […]
Advocates of expanded SCHIP funding have consistently misrepresented the reauthorization debate as a Manichean struggle between good and evil or, somewhat less stridently, an unfortunate clash of ideologies. In reality, the debate is about preventing the program from being used as a Trojan horse for socialized medicine.
Having learned that government-run health care won’t sell if […]
