John Stossel is the latest to point out the obvious flaws in the over-reported WHO ranking of national health care systems:
There’s less to these studies than meets the eye. They measure something other than quality of medical care …
Like what?
The WHO judged a country’s quality of health on life expectancy. But that’s a lousy […]
According to “the most comprehensive analysis of the issue yet produced,” the U.S. has the best 5-year cancer survival rate of 22 countries studied. Although the Telegraph focuses on the dismal performance of Great Britain’s imploding system of socialized medicine, it also provides a chart showing the best performers.
Averaging the rates for men and women, […]
Two back-to-back posts at the Health Affairs blog nicely capture the tone of the current SCHIP debate.
Grace-Marie Turner, representing those who want SCHIP to remain a program for low-income kids, offers a clear-eyed assessment of the situation. Sara Rosenbaum, representing those who wish to dramatically expand the program, offers sanctimonious blarney.
The former points out that […]
I don’t do many posts about bloggers or blogging. It’s like writing a novel about a novelist. But, hey, if it was good enough for Nabakov, it’s good enough for me.
ScienceRoll has a brief but illuminating interview with the dean of docbloggers, Kevin Pho of Kevin,MD. Here’s my favorite passage:
People not involved with health care really have no idea […]
In his book, America Alone, Merk Steyn offers the following quip about Canada’s system of socialized medicine:
They’re now pioneering the ultimate expression of government health care: the ten-month waiting list for the maternity ward.
He goes on to tell the story of a woman who was forced to have her baby in Alberta because there were […]
As I have pointed out here, Ron Paul voted to allow prescription drug re-importation. This puts the good doctor right in line with Hillary Clinton and the other Democrats running for President. According to John Lott, this policy would put real human beings at risk:
All Democratic presidential candidates agree on pharmaceutical price controls, which means […]
Another news report indicates that the much-touted Massachusetts “universal” health care plan isn’t so universal.
The state has already backed off of “universal.” About 160,000 uninsured people in the state have incomes that are too high to qualify for subsidized health insurance — but too low to afford the lowest-cost unsubsidized plans.
So, will the insurance police […]
For those of us who remember the secret deliberations over which her majesty presided prior to the 1994 implosion of Hillarycare, the latest demonstration of Hillary’s contempt for the press and the public is no surprise. It is, nonetheless, a useful object lesson in the sort of creature we’re dealing with here, and how she […]
Since the HCBS raison d’être involves “cleaning the Augean Stables of the health care debate,” I should be grateful for idiotic “news” reports like this. I must confess, however, that I’m getting a little tired of repeatedly excavating the facts from beneath this particular pile of statistical manure. Nonetheless, I guess I’ll get out my shovel […]
The advocates of socialized medicine, their claims for Canadian health care having been repeatedly exposed as wildly inaccurate, are now promoting a new single-payer paradise: France. Economist’s View links to a typical example of this in the Boston Globe:
The WHO rated [the French system] the best in the world in 2001 because of its universal […]
