The term “universal health care” is destined to take its place beside “collateral damage” as a modern masterpiece of euphemism. Just as the latter can be deployed without conjuring images of dead babies and demolished neighborhoods, the former can be used without evoking the specters of purgatorial waiting lists and obsolete technology.
As Peter Chowka points […]
A new study shows that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), in addition to being a huge financial burden on hospitals and physicians, has dramatically increased wait times in America’s emergency rooms:
EMTALA is another example of federal legislation that hurts the very people that it was meant to protect: low-income patients in […]
I haven’t devoted much time to Managed Care Matters, but I had assumed that Joe Paduda was reasonably well informed on the nuances of health care. So, having followed a link from Kevin, MD to Paduda’s site, I was surprised to find him promulgating a myth that few people with knowledge of the industry take seriously. Commenting on the costs […]
Yesterday, I posted an entry suggesting that the advocates of socialized medicine behave very much like members of a UFO cult. That is, they respond to contrary evidence by clinging even more tightly to their absurd belief system.
A friend sent me a link to a Cinema Blend piece that confirms this. These people are apparently […]
Kevin, MD links to an article describing the only true single-payer health care system that we have in the United States: the Indian Health Service. And the picture painted by Bernadine Healy is bleak:
The Indian Health Service is everyone’s worst nightmare of what government healthcare would look like. The system is riddled with crumbling facilities, […]
Hundreds of reviewers, representing every political persuasion, agree that SiCKO presents a simplistic and distorted picture of American health care. Moreover, writers as diverse in their world views as Kurt Loder and Larry Elder have decried its absurdly flattering depiction of the Cuban, Canadian, and British health care systems.
The only thing more execrable than the […]
In his latest post about the Anti-Universal Coverage Club, of which I’m a proud member, Michael Cannon quotes Grace-Marie Turner on her reluctance to join:
It’s perception. If people think we’re against having everyone have health insurance coverage, what kind of statement is that?
I’m an admirer of Turner, but her delicacy about “perceptions” is misguided. Indeed, it […]
Ezra Klein has a piece in the Washington Monthly in which he predicts failure for state-initiated “universal health care” reform:
The history of state health reform initiatives (and there’s quite a history) is a tale of false hopes and great disappointments … Universal care advocates must be realistic about that, and think hard about how to […]
Some politicians and intellectually lazy policy wonks would have us believe that electronic medical records possess magical powers. If the United States will just adopt EMR wholesale, they tell us, many of the problems plaguing American health care will evaporate.
If your instincts tell you that this is just a little too easy, you should listen. […]
… when the NYT calls you “one-sided.” This back-handed accolade was received yesterday by Stuart Browning in reference to his film “Dead Meat,” which, as the Gray Lady phrased it:
Presents anecdotes of failure in the Canadian single-payer system. In its one-sidedness, “Dead Meat” (available online at onthefencefilms.com) might have made for a nice double feature […]
